NotANarc
@nobill53ab.bsky.social
Healthcare professionals against the Compassionate Intervention Act (Bill 53) in Alberta. Committed to providing education, support, and resources so we can better care for patients, each other, and community.
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@nobill53ab.bsky.social
· Jun 23
Share this material with colleagues, talk about the Act, wear a pin or sticker - let others know where you stand on the Compassionate Intervention Act! If you would like copies of the logo or educational brochures, please send us a message!
Folks, we’re not just a bunch of outlier weirdos calling out forced treatment. Here is another mainstream organization saying the same thing. We don’t want to have any involvement in locking ppl up when we have no reason to believe it will help. csam-smca.org/wp-content/u...
csam-smca.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Folks, we’re not just a bunch of outlier weirdos calling out forced treatment. Here is another mainstream organization saying the same thing. We don’t want to have any involvement in locking ppl up when we have no reason to believe it will help. csam-smca.org/wp-content/u...
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We Refuse: Health Workers Against Involuntary Care is now public.
@hrna.bsky.social and DSDP are circulating a joint statement opposing BC’s plan to expand involuntary drug treatment. This approach is ineffective, increases overdose risk, violates autonomy, and harms marginalized communities.
@hrna.bsky.social and DSDP are circulating a joint statement opposing BC’s plan to expand involuntary drug treatment. This approach is ineffective, increases overdose risk, violates autonomy, and harms marginalized communities.
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
We Refuse: Health Workers Against Involuntary Care is now public.
@hrna.bsky.social and DSDP are circulating a joint statement opposing BC’s plan to expand involuntary drug treatment. This approach is ineffective, increases overdose risk, violates autonomy, and harms marginalized communities.
@hrna.bsky.social and DSDP are circulating a joint statement opposing BC’s plan to expand involuntary drug treatment. This approach is ineffective, increases overdose risk, violates autonomy, and harms marginalized communities.
📣📣📣 We cannot be silent. Push back against carceral solutions.
I contributed to this @cmaj.ca Commentary because:
1. Choosing control over care is a failure of imagination that invites despair; and,
2. Health equity requires advocacy.
#HealthEquity
#DecolonizeCare
#CareOverControl
@dsdp.ca @nobill53ab.bsky.social
www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250910
1. Choosing control over care is a failure of imagination that invites despair; and,
2. Health equity requires advocacy.
#HealthEquity
#DecolonizeCare
#CareOverControl
@dsdp.ca @nobill53ab.bsky.social
www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250910
Involuntary treatment for substance use: application of Kass’ ethical framework to Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act
Key points
In Canada, more than 50 000 opioid-related deaths have occurred since September 2024, mostly in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, where governments are all in various stages of develo...
www.cmaj.ca
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
📣📣📣 We cannot be silent. Push back against carceral solutions.
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Under the Compassionate Intervention Act, people with substance use disorder can be forced to take any prescription medication without consent. It doesn't matter if they have decisional capacity. While doctors are involved, ultimately a lawyer gets to decide what the treatment order will be. #ableg
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Under the Compassionate Intervention Act, people with substance use disorder can be forced to take any prescription medication without consent. It doesn't matter if they have decisional capacity. While doctors are involved, ultimately a lawyer gets to decide what the treatment order will be. #ableg
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“The Lovejoy Trap is a tool people use to construct their identities in a way that makes them appear morally virtuous. It’s also frighteningly effective at packaging extreme inhumanity as being necessary ‘for the children.’”
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-lovejoy-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-lovejoy-...
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
“The Lovejoy Trap is a tool people use to construct their identities in a way that makes them appear morally virtuous. It’s also frighteningly effective at packaging extreme inhumanity as being necessary ‘for the children.’”
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-lovejoy-...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-lovejoy-...
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Mandatory recovery treatment doesn't solve homelessness, building affordable housing does.
I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE HAVE A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING THIS .....
I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE HAVE A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING THIS .....
October 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Mandatory recovery treatment doesn't solve homelessness, building affordable housing does.
I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE HAVE A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING THIS .....
I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE HAVE A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING THIS .....
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When the Alberta government claims that deaths from the toxic drug crisis are decreasing or stabilizing, take a look at this graph — it tells a very different story.
Involuntary care won’t fix this.
Compassion, harm reduction, on-demand voluntary treatment options, and real supports will.
Involuntary care won’t fix this.
Compassion, harm reduction, on-demand voluntary treatment options, and real supports will.
October 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
When the Alberta government claims that deaths from the toxic drug crisis are decreasing or stabilizing, take a look at this graph — it tells a very different story.
Involuntary care won’t fix this.
Compassion, harm reduction, on-demand voluntary treatment options, and real supports will.
Involuntary care won’t fix this.
Compassion, harm reduction, on-demand voluntary treatment options, and real supports will.
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9 years of advocating and fighting for the rights of people who use drugs .. not once did they acknowledge families who have tried forced treatment within my community. I have no words .. just a lot of anger and sadness at the harm this will cause so many folks.
October 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
9 years of advocating and fighting for the rights of people who use drugs .. not once did they acknowledge families who have tried forced treatment within my community. I have no words .. just a lot of anger and sadness at the harm this will cause so many folks.
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Implementation pushed back to 2027 (originally promised for Spring 2026). Guess it’s been harder than expected to ring fence at-capacity voluntary treatment infrastructure for unproven, forced care.
October 9, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Implementation pushed back to 2027 (originally promised for Spring 2026). Guess it’s been harder than expected to ring fence at-capacity voluntary treatment infrastructure for unproven, forced care.
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🗓️ Oct. 15 at 3-4 PM ET online: Please join us for a discussion of how to advance narratives that undermine authoritarianism and increase solidarity, featuring @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @lewispants.bsky.social, and @deanspade.bsky.social!
Register: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/f...
Register: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/f...
October 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
🗓️ Oct. 15 at 3-4 PM ET online: Please join us for a discussion of how to advance narratives that undermine authoritarianism and increase solidarity, featuring @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @lewispants.bsky.social, and @deanspade.bsky.social!
Register: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/f...
Register: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/f...
A heavy conversation today about the "Compassionate Care" Act on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social Cross Country Checkup. A couple of claims raised our eyebrows, and some fact checking is in order. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-....
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October 6, 2025 at 4:54 AM
A heavy conversation today about the "Compassionate Care" Act on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social Cross Country Checkup. A couple of claims raised our eyebrows, and some fact checking is in order. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-....
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It’s absolute bullshit to say you can’t help people until they stop using. We can and do work on safety, housing, health, and dignity while people use.
September 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
It’s absolute bullshit to say you can’t help people until they stop using. We can and do work on safety, housing, health, and dignity while people use.
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The Drug war was built for control, not care. Now history is repeating itself. 🧵
August 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The Drug war was built for control, not care. Now history is repeating itself. 🧵
"Who is served by narratives that spread fear and even dehumanize people who are struggling, narratives that play on citizens’ deepest fears and desire for safety?" On 'Ruining Downtown' open.substack.com/pub/civicgoo...
On 'Ruining Downtown'
Safety, addictions and housing solutions
open.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"Who is served by narratives that spread fear and even dehumanize people who are struggling, narratives that play on citizens’ deepest fears and desire for safety?" On 'Ruining Downtown' open.substack.com/pub/civicgoo...
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Local woman wakes up, reminds everyone that safer communities are tied more to healthcare, housing and public services and less to police, makes oatmeal.
September 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Local woman wakes up, reminds everyone that safer communities are tied more to healthcare, housing and public services and less to police, makes oatmeal.
We are still overwhelmed by disability application forms, and thought it was time to share why austerity measures like this 👇 are a hard-to-digest recipe for involuntary treatment. 🧵
Must read new guest post!
The government's latest cuts are creating massive confusion & additional financial barriers for Disabled Albertans, & needless administrative burden for their doctors—during a primary care crisis! We deserve better.
Read more: www.friendsofmedicare.org/blog_more_cu...
The government's latest cuts are creating massive confusion & additional financial barriers for Disabled Albertans, & needless administrative burden for their doctors—during a primary care crisis! We deserve better.
Read more: www.friendsofmedicare.org/blog_more_cu...
September 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We are still overwhelmed by disability application forms, and thought it was time to share why austerity measures like this 👇 are a hard-to-digest recipe for involuntary treatment. 🧵
Please read this excellent thread from a long time Edmontonian. Involuntary treatment is an attempt to disappear what makes us uncomfortable. As healthcare professionals, we have a choice: Are we complicit in this violence? Or do we interrupt it?
As city columnist for the Edmonton Journal, I wrote often about the crisis of homelessness. I was naive. For years, I thought people wanted to help those living on the street. It took me ages to realize that many people just wanted the homeless gone, someplace away, out of sight and out of mind.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Please read this excellent thread from a long time Edmontonian. Involuntary treatment is an attempt to disappear what makes us uncomfortable. As healthcare professionals, we have a choice: Are we complicit in this violence? Or do we interrupt it?
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When politicians show up at your #ioad event… remind them that almost every policy approach to overdose has made it worse and that’s by design.
August 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
When politicians show up at your #ioad event… remind them that almost every policy approach to overdose has made it worse and that’s by design.
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Reject reactionary drug policy: Canada must not continue to follow the United States’ path of punitive and moralistic policy choices. B.C. must not continue emulate the regressive course taken by Alberta.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli #ioad #harmreduction
#bcpoli #cdnpoli #ioad #harmreduction
August 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Reject reactionary drug policy: Canada must not continue to follow the United States’ path of punitive and moralistic policy choices. B.C. must not continue emulate the regressive course taken by Alberta.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli #ioad #harmreduction
#bcpoli #cdnpoli #ioad #harmreduction
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Address the root causes of the crisis: regulate the drug supply. Invest in housing, mental health services, and voluntary addiction treatment. Recommit to the decriminalization of substance possession for personal use.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli #ioad #harmreduction
#bcpoli #cdnpoli #ioad #harmreduction
August 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Address the root causes of the crisis: regulate the drug supply. Invest in housing, mental health services, and voluntary addiction treatment. Recommit to the decriminalization of substance possession for personal use.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli #ioad #harmreduction
#bcpoli #cdnpoli #ioad #harmreduction