Ms. Huggins, earlier you said that we are facing a public health crisis and that we have to take a comprehensive approach and take into account the social determinants of health. For some time now, we have been talking about the connection between the decriminalization of drug possession and public use of drugs. How can we find solutions to this problem using a harm reduction approach?
For example, are supervised injection sites inadequate, too few in number or too unattractive to encourage people to use in those places rather than anywhere else in the public space? Do these people have enough housing or places to go? When someone goes to a McDonald's, a subway station or a hospital to inject drugs in the winter owing to the cold, it's because they have nowhere else to go.
Tell us about some of the solutions you're looking at in that regard that would be part of a comprehensive approach based on the social determinants of health.