Alberta model
Sober living homes take “sobriety deposits.” Do clients get them back?
Pairing unjustified deposits with mass evictions of residents, transitional recovery facilities appear to be placing profit before people.
Alberta model
supervised consumption
Red Deer is galloping toward a cliff
Heralding a new phase in the Alberta government's war on harm reduction and hostile takeover of municipalities, closing the city's overdose prevention site could drive 28 preventable deaths a year.
Media Criticism
Is Alberta UCP reinventing residential schools as addiction treatment?
Eleven 'therapeutic communities' are planned, many situated in First Nations, but possibilities of forced abstinence and forced labour evoke a horrific history.
Newsletter
Clearing the Plains 2.0: Alberta Drug Policy is Indigenous Genocide
Framing drug toxicity as a tool of land occupation can guide settlers to reposition their grief from individual tragedies to collateral damage of genocidal policy.
Alberta model
The Alberta Drug Model is a Christian institution: Part 1
At least half of long-term addiction care beds are Christian and almost all are 12-Step abstinence-based. Part 1 of a series on Alberta addiction services.
Alberta model
Marshall Smith's propaganda rampage
CBC Calgary provides lovely background music to unending UCP overtures to abstinence-based treatment. But can violins clash with critical analysis?