CBC: Docs support 72-hour detention for highly intoxicated people in Winnipeg

A group of high-ranking health professionals has written a letter in support of the Manitoba government’s plan to detain highly intoxicated people for up to 72 hours. Dr. Jitender Sareen, professor and head of the department of psychiatry in the Max Rady College of Medicine, one of four signatories to the letter in support of the change, said the group took that step “because of the important problem that we have in Manitoba of crystal meth intoxication-related mental health difficulties.”

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