Question Period (16 April 2024)

From Hansard (16 April 2024)

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 Overdose Deaths and Treatment for Addictions

Mr. Clarke: — Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Every single day in this Assembly, our members have raised the overdose crisis and the alarmingly high number of overdose deaths in our communities. With 113 deaths so far this year and counting, we don’t have time to hear more of the same from the minister. They think they have it right, Mr. Speaker. But the alarming rates and the people working on the front lines of this crisis know better.

How many more people must die? How many more people must our families lose to this crisis before this government realizes that they have it wrong? Today will the minister stop with the spin, get serious, and implement an evidence-based plan to address the overdose crisis in this province?

Hon. Mr. T. McLeod: — Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. And this government is very serious about saving lives. This government is very serious about healing families and we are very serious about strengthening communities when it comes to addressing overdoses and the addictions in this province, Mr. Speaker.

That is exactly why we are helping individuals find the path to recovery by doubling the number of addictions treatment spaces we have available for those individuals. We are making it easier for them to access those spaces and we are wrapping supports around them through recovery-oriented systems of care.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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