Opinion: Promoting involuntary treatment of drug users is good populist politics, but is it good health care?

A complex problem like we are seeing on the streets of most Canadian cities requires a full suite of solutions

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Hell, that's an easy answer. You can't treat an addict unless they're willing to quit, period. You can force a person to go to meetings, take therapy, etc, but if they aren't actually ready and willing to stay clean, it's a waste.
- Literally learned this 100 years ago. But I guess people have forgotten how hellish Sanatoriums were.
  
  Waste of time, money and lives.