Alberta model
Documents show the United Conservatives were working with city councillors intent on driving the closure of supervised consumption services in Red Deer as early as 2022.
Alberta model
Unannounced by the Alberta government, all signs point to the controversial UCP-aligned recovery organization bagging a lucrative contract for Calgary's new centre.
Alberta model
Calgary city council took a defiant stance against the Alberta government's attempt to have council do its dirty work. For once, the trash took itself out in Alberta.
Alberta model
An app that privatizes health information of recovery patients is aimed at Alberta shelters, correctional facilities and supervised consumption sites. In one case, data from the app that showed a negative outcome was suppressed, but the government still publicly reported it.
News
My Recovery Plan was implemented to evaluate and manage substance use treatment waitlists across Alberta. Documents reveal how it denies patients informed consent and control of their personal health information.
Alberta model
How a group of fundamentalists is constructing a great wooden horse standing tall on carcerality, profiteering and propaganda to deliver Compassion unto the people.
Alberta model
If exploitation is the driving force of drug prohibition, privatized 'treatment' is the paved road it rolls on: a look at the business challenges faced by these organizations.
Media Criticism
The Alberta government is scrambling to glue together its narrative that overdose deaths can be solved through a limited scope of privatized rehab. But a live interview on CBC Calgary pulled the curtain on the strategy's naked truth.
Alberta model
Recovery Capital Conference has disinvited world-renowned recovery and harm reduction advocate Guy Felicella from this year's conference. The move fits the Alberta government's pattern of controlling public drug policy discourse and stifling dissent against its abstinence-only strategy.
Alberta model
Over a year after inking the deal, Alberta's Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction has yet to reveal the recipient of its largest contract. This appears to be ROSC Solutions Group, whose top brass are connected to the Premier's chief of staff and were early drivers of Recovery Capital Conference.
Alberta model
The upcoming Recovery Capital Conference in Calgary serves three main functions: mobilizing Alberta government policy through credible actors, repaying these actors with public funding, and recruiting for the far-right. Part 1 examines the first of these, and what happens when credibility falls short. See also: Part 2 and Part 3.
Alberta model
The lack of accountability in the “Alberta Model” for dealing with drug use: teaser from a long-form piece in Alberta Views, online now. Since submitting this story for publication with Alberta Views, Drug Data Decoded has uncovered additional unsettling information about how the Alberta government may be hiding outcome data