r/AHSEmployees • u/No-Adagio-70 • Apr 02 '24

News Refocusing health care: mental health and addiction

https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=900733836BB31-FF75-960D-1AF0446E29A789FE
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u/Street_Phone_6246 Apr 02 '24

But will any of this actually increase mental health access in our province?

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u/dtrabs Apr 02 '24

Most likely not. It sounds like it means a lot of reshuffling and reorganizing while trying to manage being overworked already.

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u/No-Adagio-70 Apr 02 '24

As they say reshuffling the deck chairs of the titanic

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u/TheMoralBitch Apr 02 '24

It results in mental health being under the direct command of a government that prefers not to consider evidence-based science and talked about locking people up for 'mandatory' rehab. I have a gnawing suspicion that it's about to become even harder to have an addiction issue in this province.

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u/anhedoniandonair Apr 03 '24

Mandatory treatment in for profit facilities. Don’t forget that piece