The Alberta addiction recovery model provides real reasons for optimism, but other provinces can’t take shortcuts
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The Alberta addiction recovery model provides real reasons for optimism, but other provinces can’t take shortcuts
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22 MAY 2026
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In May 2023, a National Post op-ed declared that “Alberta’s recovery-focused approach to addiction is a model for North America.” Less than a month later, a Tyee opinion piece concluded “Rising Drug Deaths Discredit the ‘Alberta Model.’” It was nice to have the issue cleared up.
Policy disagreements are hardly new. But addiction policy, where technical terminology and statistical minutia bleed into the reality of desperate human be…
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