What I'm trying to say is that there won't be a single solution to such a complex and weighty problem, a crisis involving so many deaths. Many of us have talked about existing solutions that are not being sufficiently implemented. That seems to me to be the easiest part to solve, because we know what the solutions are. We just need to implement more solutions, pour in more money and train health care professionals.
I'm going to repeat one last time that we're currently experiencing an opioid-related crisis. You can come out of medical school without knowing how to prescribe methadone. That seems inexplicable to me, and it shows the extent of the stigmatization of these clients, who are not receiving the care they need. That's the end of my sidebar.
To answer your question, there's that part, which seems pretty clear to me, at the tip of the iceberg. However, underneath the iceberg, we're actually touching the limits of the war on drugs. We've been trying to deal with it for years. We've invested thousands of dollars in the war on drugs, and we're losing even more ground. I'm not a public policy expert, but in my opinion, it's time we did things differently and looked for creative solutions.