We must subject these policies to critical scrutiny:

Who benefits from involuntary drug treatment?

Not the patients. Not the nurses, doctors, or other allied healthcare professionals.

Do you feel safer knowing the gov is changing laws to protect care providers so they can violate patient rights?

Importantly — and this was stressed in friggen heartbreaking testimony — they were doing this while their friends, family and community members were dying in horrific, horrific numbers. The trauma they experienced/continue to experience is very clear. The crisis is continuing, 5 ppl/ day are dying.

"When public policy on substance use and treatment of people who use drugs is based on stigma and morality, rather than evidence and respect for fundamental human dignity, harmful policies result."