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Addiction Recovery Bulletin
SAVE-A-SOUL –
Feb. 24, 2025 – It’s not often a reporter signs in to a government news conference on the hunt for scandal, but ends up with a broken heart.
That’s how it felt for me when Premier Danielle Smith announced the construction of two “compassionate intervention” centres for profoundly helpless, endangered addicts. How could anybody hear what these people say without choking up — and understanding, after years of false compassion, why some addicted people need to be forced into treatment both for their survival and the safety of others?
Thiessen asked: “Is it a compassionate approach to step over people on the street and allow them to die in front of us, turn our heads and ignore the obvious because it’s their right?
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