Psychiatrists to get more powers in Alberta: Knowledge Driven Revolution

Psychiatrists in Alberta will be able to order treatment without a patient's consent more often under changes to the province's Mental Health Act, which the government intends to bring in during the spring sitting of the legislature.

Right now doctors can only impose treatment if people present a danger to themselves or others. The changes will broaden that to include situations where a patient's mental health is deteriorating.

Fay Herrick, a spokeswoman with the Calgary chapter of the Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, said between 30 and 50 per cent of people diagnosed with the disorder try to kill themselves. Her own son attempted suicide twice.

"If the doctors are able to maintain people on their medications and the medications are keeping away those horrible, horrible symptoms they experience, then of course suicide is going to be kept at bay for more people."

Alberta is not the first province to introduce so-called community treatment orders. Other provinces including Saskatchewan and Ontario already have such orders and Herrick says she believes they're making a difference.

Elizabeth Anderson, who has schizophrenia, said the changes to the act will help psychiatrists treat people before it's too late.

As soon as Anderson returned from her honeymoon, she started getting paranoid and stopped leaving the house.

"I wasn't aware that I was sick. The part of your brain that can tell that you are sick was broken. That's why we can't leave people in the community without treatment, because they do not know they're sick."

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