I think it's a matter of funding recovery and treatment facilities. As well, having good surveillance, good oversight and good policies in place for those facilities is critical. Substance use disorder is the only health issue in this country wherein people have to go to the street to get their medicine. The treatment for them is inaccessible, mostly for their families, because of the cost, or there are way too few subsidized beds in the facilities.
There are a lot of problems that could be solved, that we know how to solve, but it seems to be a matter of political will, for one thing. It's definitely about funding. We don't send people with heart disease or diabetes to unsupervised facilities that are without oversight. We need to treat substance use disorder like any other disorder, any other health issue.