While measures have been taken to accommodate individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) or addiction disorders (PAII, 2021, pages 63, 64), notably with high-acceptance modalities and the strengthening of intensive support services in the community, it is urgent to reaffirm the perspective of addiction treatment as an action with a high impact on the main factor of precarity for highly disaffiliated individuals. traitement des dépendances comme action ayant un impact élevé sur le principal facteur de précarité des personnes hautement désaffiliées.
Homeless individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) make housing stabilization efforts extremely complex and uncertain. For decades, Quebec's addiction treatment centers have offered treatment with accommodation (2,334 beds in 2024, AQCID), which makes it possible to reach these individuals before the disaffiliation resulting from substance use makes them completely resistant to the necessary efforts on their part to access housing.
Removing barriers to access to addiction treatment centers and adjusting funding to the scales generally applied to other residential resources would help guide willing individuals toward options whose access is currently limited by complexities resulting solely from incomprehensible administrative procedures.
Illustrating the impact of non-universality:
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Mémoire de l’AQCID (2024): Accès universel au traitement pour les personnes présentant un trouble lié à l’usage de substances