Warum gibt es in Kanada so viele Zwangseinweisungen in die psychiatrische Klinik?

Because the „in-community care“ bleeding hearts of twenty years ago had their cause usurped by governments who wanted to cut our mental health institutions in a bait-n-switch, and left the mental health and addictions problem fester for two decades without having built any replacements.

What did we do? Bought up roach motels, and put vulnerable people within arms reach of street drug dealers peddling psychosis inducing amphetamines, and/or crippling opioids, with government sanctioned methadone industry tying it all together.

So now, when people get picked up, they’re in beyond crisis.

I get our institutions were outdated, and needed a modern model, but tearing them down without building replacements like mental health villages in place (like the dementia villages in the nordic countries) was a Cardinal sin.