More Involuntary Care Doesn’t Work. What BC Should Do Instead: We need a compassionate, properly resourced mental health system.
Kevin Love in The Tyee
The number of people being detained under B.C.’s Mental Health Act has increased dramatically over the last two decades. However, we know through provincial data that the use of detention, force and coercion has repeatedly proven to be ineffective, and often counterproductive, in reducing or preventing mental health crises.