Anecdotally, we're certainly seeing high percentages of persons who have co-occurring conditions. One of the innate challenges that we have is that, because our system is siloed and funded, mandates are based on someone dealing with mental health and someone else dealing with substances. They present to the door for services for mental health and are told they need to go deal with their addictions before they can access the services for mental health, and then it's the chicken and the egg. They are bouncing back and forth, and we're missing the mark grossly. Again, we need to have strategies that can look at this collectively and address the issues as a whole. That way, we can break it down and move past this silo strategy for addressing this, because it is not working.
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