Yes, as I said earlier and as you heard from my friend Dr. Claudette Chase, the primary health care system we have in first nations communities is at the nursing station. Nurses employed by Health Canada do not have the scope of practice to engage in supporting first nations people in their own community in addressing opiate issues beyond 30 days. That's one point.
The second point is that we don't have access to treatment for opiate addiction, and when there is access, it's short-term access. Without access to treatment, many people are suffering in their communities, which leads to illicit drug use, and the problem continues.
I'm thankful that you mentioned southern Alberta, because I also want to say that the research on addiction says that it's permanent brain damage and it can't be undone. I think that's a racist way of keeping people on methadone, because people in indigenous communities have had to leave their communities to access treatment, and the primary course of treatment has been with methadone by physicians who say it's a course of treatment for the rest of your life.