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In his many trips to Switzerland to visit in-laws, my good friend and fellow advocate, Steve Liddycoat, often remarked that you rarely see the mentally ill on the streets. A few years ago when he asked, he was told the reason was that the mentally ill were getting treatment in hospitals.
On his most recent trip earlier this summer with all the talk of growing homele...
Dr. David Laing Dawson
Forty-five years ago the number of seriously addicted in our cities was relatively small. They could be excluded from the institutions serving the mentally ill without too many questions of conscience.
I well remember a phone call from a government official. She wanted me to involuntarily admit a young man who was sniffing glue. He w...
By Marvin Ross
The media is full of news reports on the growing homeless problem in Canada and the equally growing outrage at the existence of street encampments and residents fighting against shelter housing. Lost in all this noise are those with severe mental illnesses (SMI) many of whom live with aging parents. The homeless are a diverse group of people with addi...