Madam Chair, as my mother always said, “You can't change the past, you can only change the future.”
When we look ahead at what we need to do, public education does not just mean labels on a bottle. In places that do it well, like Switzerland and Portugal, they have mandatory education in all schools, from the public system to the high school system. That would be of great use.
We have seen that supervised consumption sites are not solving the problem. We see that people inject again and again and overdose again and again. The answer is that when they come to that moment when they say that this is enough and they need to get their lives back on track, we can get them immediately into treatment and see them recover and get their lives back.