CHARBONNEAU – Trendy new psychiatric illnesses
HAVE YOU NOTICED ads on social media that invite you to diagnose your mental health? Here’s one I’ve seen that assumes that I am on the autism spectrum: “Discover Your [Continue]
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ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Is a return to big institutions the answer to street problems?
The following column was originally published on Oct. 2, 2021. THERE WAS A TIME when the streets weren’t full of homeless, addicted, and unstable people. A time when you [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Brain-injured street people require compulsory treatment
PIVOT LEGAL SOCIETY is calling on the B.C. government to stop its proposed expansion of forced mental health and addictions treatment. Compulsory treatment must proceed. I [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Mentally ill Canadians deserve the right to die with dignity
MENTALLY ILL Canadians have been excluded from medical assistance in dying (MAID) but that is about to change in a few months. When that option arrives in March, 2023, Canada [Continue]
PETERS – Why the NDP government isn’t keen on expanding the Car 40 program
FOR YEARS, KAMLOOPS COUNCIL and our local RCMP detachment have been begging for the expansion of the Car 40 program. It pairs an RCMP member with an Interior Health mental [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Finally, a challenge to detention of ‘certifiable’ people
UNLIKE OTHER Canadian jurisdictions, those who are deemed to be mentally ill in British Columbia can be held indefinitely. B.C. does not have an automatic review of ongoing [Continue]
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