'Recovery-based' care plan falling flat with addiction advocates in Sask.
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Saskatchewan’s Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, Tim McLeod is in Calgary this week for the eighth annual Recovery Capitol Conference of Canada.
Saskatchewan’s Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, Tim McLeod is in Calgary this week for the eighth annual Recovery Capitol Conference of Canada.
Nearly 2,000 delegates gathered to discuss addictions and particularly focus on The Alberta Recovery Model.
In a press conference held this afternoon, the ministers spoke about plans to increase access to recovery-oriented care, and advancing partnerships with Indigenous communities.
“We are taking the entire approach to addictions treatment and are shifting to a recovery oriented system of care that really is focused on wrapping supports around the individual,” Minister McLeod said.
“So that we are treating the individual and not the addiction.”
But the sentiment of the minister’s plan of ‘recovery based’ care is falling flat with some who work directly with people struggling with addictions.
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