Controversial “Alberta Recovery Model” showcased at new Lakeview Recovery Community
Controversial “Alberta Recovery Model” showcased at new Lakeview Recovery Community
Encouraging privatization and shunning harm reduction are at heart of Alberta’s ideological approach to addiction treatment.
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Incredibly political article. Provides little information about the service provided and omits critical info. if you follow the links you'll find that ROSC is a non profit funded entirely by the province. It also fails to mention what the new professionals are being trained on or why. It also fails to mention that there are dozens or organizations already operating under the harm reduction model.
All in all a shitty article to farm clics and political drama.
I don’t disagree with your take on the article, but the “recovery model” is widely criticized by healthcare professionals.
Tell me more. (Not sarcastic)
A much better article on the topic and contains perspectives: https://livewirecalgary.com/2024/04/02/recovery-alberta-to-take-charge-of-mental-health-services-in-alberta/
What I can grasp is that the recovery model doesn’t focus on “wrap-around care”. You can lock someone in a room until their withdrawals pass, but if you don’t address the root issues (usually poverty or lack of mental illness support) of why they started to begin with, the cycle will just repeat.
From the article:
The UCP’s plan focuses exclusively on addictions and offers nothing to address permanent supportive housing, treatment wait times and wraparound services...
I mean yeah... Without addressing housing issues, health appointment wait times and social services, people will not use less drugs. I 100% agree with that. But these have nothing to do with the way services for addictions are provided. What is a social worker supposed to do about your housing, if rent prices are through the roof? Notice how none of these articles have any experts taking about the services being provided or actual evidence of their effectiveness (or lack thereof). It's politically-aligned representatives, talking shit about the other side, without any rational arguments. They don't give a shit about addicts, lol. They give ea shit about arguing with the other side and "winning".
"Recovery model" is not the issue. Politicians are the issue.
You can lock someone in a room until their withdrawal passes...
No. You can't. That is not what "recovery model" or work with addictions in modern day Canada looks like. Nobody is getting locked anywhere, people die if you do that because you can't just stop cold turkey alcohol or opiates. Literally die.
Don't get me wrong. There's a lot of shit that needs to be fixed in mental health services, but ReCoVeRy MoDeL BaD is just a political slogan. So yeah. Maybe don't take your mental health education from the guys that just want to stoke hate so they can get your vote.