I am elected in British Columbia. There is a drug epidemic, opioid overdose and addiction epidemic that, in the Downtown Eastside, has hit indigenous women particularly hard. Some of the treating doctors have said that they have not seen a single one of their patients who was not a victim of childhood sexual abuse, that there is such a link between that early trauma damage and addiction.
In any of your investigations, have you come across that kind of correlation—childhood trauma and the role of mental health in entering the criminal justice system?