Liberals vow to increase addictions treatment

Posted: 9:44 AM CDT Wednesday, Sep. 7, 2011

Jon Gerrard's Liberals continue their crime prevention platform today by promising to beef up addictions treatment in Manitoba.

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Jon Gerrard's Liberals continue their crime prevention platform today by promising to beef up addictions treatment in Manitoba.

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Jon Gerrard’s Liberals continue their crime prevention platform today by promising to beef up addictions treatment in Manitoba.

Gerrard said in a statement that without more focused addictions services violent crime will continue to plague the province.

“The wait-times to get addictions treatment under the NDP are unacceptable,” Jon Gerrard said.

The NDP and the Progressive Conservatives will each roll out their own addictions programs during the campaign.

Several months ago the NDP announced it was redeveloping a former seniors complex in Point Douglas to improve addictions treatment.

Gerrard said in the statement that studies show 70 per cent of those arrested for violent offences test positive for substance abuse.

He said in the first year of a Liberal government, $1.2 million would go to different addictions treatment facilities such as the Behavioural Foundation in St. Norbert to reduce addictions wait times.

Gerrard is to speak this morning outside the St. Norbert complex. The area is one the Liberals think they can squeak by the Tories and NDP with candidate Marcel Laurendeau, the former PC MLA for St. Norbert.