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Youth need addiction, mental health strategies: advocate

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Youth need addiction, mental health strategies: advocate

Carol Sanders 5 minute read Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025

As politicians debate proposed legislation to detain adults in the throes of a meth psychosis for up to 72 hours, Manitoba’s children’s advocate wants to know how minors will be treated.

“When they talk about Bill 48 with respect to detaining intoxicated people for 72 hours or so, there is no youth-specific need addressed in that bill,” Sherry Gott said Wednesday.

The Protective Detention and Care of Intoxicated Persons Act would replace the Intoxicated Persons Detention Act, which allows for the 24-hour involuntary detention of people intoxicated by alcohol. It proposes 20 spaces for people to detox from the effects of drugs under medical supervision, but doesn’t say anything about youth.

The Manitoba Foster Parents Association echoed the advocate’s concern.

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Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025

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Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth, Sherry Gott: “When they talk about Bill 48 with respect to detaining intoxicated people for 72 hours or so, there is no youth-specific need addressed in that bill.”
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS FILES Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth, Sherry Gott: “When they talk about Bill 48 with respect to detaining intoxicated people for 72 hours or so, there is no youth-specific need addressed in that bill.”