Show Notes
Canada’s drug crisis has some policy makers looking away from measures such as harm reduction and toward expansion of treatment beds.
And along with that has come discussion of measures to compel addicts into treatment.
Vancouver Sun reporter Lori Culbert joins Dave Breakenridge to discuss how involuntary treatment works, the legal questions around the practice, and the stories of some patients who have been forced into treatment.
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