I'll add one. It's a growing reading list.
It's the U.K. commitment to a recovery-oriented system of care. A recovery-oriented system of care is the most frequently used framework that governments around the world are using in order to fully integrate all government activities toward a common goal of preventing addictions, as well as actually other mental illnesses, by intervening early and promoting recovery. It runs the gamut from interdiction and international relationships to domestic activities that cut across a broad swath.
We haven't yet mentioned the role of, for example, employment and the fact that 60% of the people who are experiencing poisoning in Canada were unemployed and they're mostly young people. Employment is powerfully related as a protection against the risk of addiction and also as a component of promoting recovery.
A related observation is that not only are poisoning deaths the leading cause of death among youth in B.C., but about 60% of the kids we're losing were in government care. What I'm trying to get at is that this is a very skewed high-risk population.
I am not spreading false, misleading and unethical testimony. I resent the remark. I don't even know why someone would think to say that in this setting.
We have actionable steps that we must take that involve our psychology and our social interactions. I'm summarizing that with the phrase “social reintegration”. We ignore social reintegration at our peril and now are piling on with additional pharmaceuticals that are making things net worse.
I'll gladly forward those documents.