Thank you so much for bringing up the story of Sudbury, which has had one of the highest rates of opioid overdose in the country.
We can think about two clear directions, and I think that has come from this group today as well. It's clear that we need prevention and we need treatment. For the treatment side, I think there will be a lot of comments about that. I think Dr. Vigod spoke about having a champion group that may be made up of many groups that help to oversee and perhaps distribute information and supervision to community groups.
On the prevention side, there's a lot we can learn from the addiction world, because we've had, in some ways, more experience in prevention than the mental health side has. It's not enough to just talk about prevention or talk about disorders or identify them, because we found with research in addictions that education doesn't have the impact we thought it would. You need to have skills-based education. You have to help people understand the harms of substances, of course, but we focus too much on that. Sometimes even just bringing up substances has actually led to an increase in substances in low-use schools, although it would reduce it in a high-risk school.
It's complicated. We have to do it right. We need to think about the centralized prevention tools that we have. In addictions, the best is accessibility. If you increase the cost, if you have fewer store hours, if you have fewer stores, you have fewer substances. It's important that we know those indicators; we're not winning that political war.
I guess my last comment is not to forget about addictions in the treatment that we're talking about today, because it's an important part of young women's experience.