When someone is declared a casualty, we've talked about there being a diagnosis associated with it. One of the challenges we've heard a lot about is when the casualty produces a mental health diagnosis, which can sometimes be very difficult. Something we've heard—and this topic hasn't been brought up in a while—is that there are members who end up being discharged for issues involving substances: they're discharged because they are convicted of impaired driving, or they're found to be showing up on duty impaired and are summarily discharged for that.
In my experience as a physician, we often find that substance abuse is the very first symptom we see of an underlying mental health disorder that was not previously diagnosed.
Is there a means or a mechanism that can be triggered, whenever there is a substance problem identified in a member or a substance-related offence, to make a determination—to explore and do a mental health evaluation to make sure that there isn't be an underlying mental health diagnosis?
I'll start with General Misener.