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I thank your daughter for deciding to dedicate her career to helping others.
I'll respond in English.
With regard to the best intervention when it comes to substance use, health and addiction, we at the Canadian Mental Health Association view the delivery of care across a continuum and a spectrum.
There is incredible work that needs to be done in upstream intervention early on. We've talked about children and youth—behavioural addiction, substance use, and health-related addiction. Investment needs to be made, increasingly so, in evidence-based, proven interventions that help create off-ramps for children and youth before they develop a diagnosable condition.
We also know that harm reduction and the suite of interventions that fall within that bucket of services are evidence-based and have incredible research to demonstrate efficacy. When we invest across the prevention and the harm reduction-related interventions, acute clinical services during periods of severe symptoms, and recovery-oriented supports, let's not forget, in addition to delivering across upstream and an acute presenting of symptoms, what happens once someone is discharged from an inpatient addictions recovery program or a more wraparound service. We need to ensure housing supports and other long-term recovery-oriented supports.
We would strongly recommend a full continuum of care across that spectrum.