Certainly.
There are two things. One is that your government is already at the table with First Do No Harm. They were part of the development of the strategy and were able to provide that commentary. Of course you are familiar with the commitment for the ministers of health, so that's important as well.
Drug Drop-Off Day took place in May of this year. It's being led, in part, by the police, and certainly in cooperation with Public Health. As I mentioned earlier, a lot of young people today are accessing medications for non-medical use, which they are getting from their medicine chests. The point being, if you have unused medications please return them.
You can return them any time to a pharmacy. However, there is some concern as to how that return is being managed once they're back in the pharmacy. Take-back day is an opportunity to signal the importance of the issue at a community level, to educate people, and to obtain drugs that would typically be left unattended in a medicine chest and are no longer required.
Last year, in I think about 18 cities, it was coordinated by Public Safety and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. There were over two tonnes of drugs collected, not all opiates. If you can imagine the weight of one pill, you can imagine how many pills that actually was.
There are a variety of resources for any community that wishes to partake in this which have been developed and supported by Public Safety and are available to all jurisdictions. Again, that decreases the cost for the community that wishes to engage in that.