Daphne Bramham: The missing harm-reduction measure? Regulating mental health professionals

Anyone in British Columbia can build a website and sell their services as an “interventionist” promising to rescue people from the throes of addiction and get them into care.
In fact, without government regulation, anyone can claim to be a mental health professional, use the name “counsellor” or “therapist”, set up a private practice and charge whatever they want.
The problem has festered for at least two decades. But now, it has taken on more urgency as the p