Pinning down the B.C. NDP on involuntary treatment proves slippery
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Whiteside: “We know that there are tools under the Mental Health Act that physicians use when it comes to the question of involuntary care.”Whiteside repeated the government’s current view that there is no need for new legislative measures to protect overdose victims from themselves. As evidence, Horgan cited the Green refusal to support the Bill 22 provision that would have allowed involuntary detention of young overdose victims.
Then suddenly involuntary care was back on the political agenda, courtesy of David Eby in his bid to succeed Horgan.
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