First of all, the federal government needs to be playing a huge leadership role in education. It comes in under the prevention language in the CCSA document. It's finding a way to show the leadership to make responding to accidental overdose deaths common knowledge in communities in Canada, in families in Canada, that people in families that have someone on a pain medication or addicted to an opioid have access to naloxone. They understand what an overdose looks like. These are things we can talk about forever, and they are not complicated things to do, helping find a way to get naloxone on provincial formularies. In other jurisdictions children have reversed overdose deaths. A simple intramuscular injection of naloxone immediately reverses an overdose.
While we look at the complexity that you've heard today, we could be doing things in communities in Canada in the next few weeks and months to at least begin to prevent or stem the loss of life that's occurring across the country from overdose deaths. In the process we can educate the public at the community level that there are things they can do, they can recognize, and they can help their fellow community members who have severe addictions to opioids.