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Substance use
Recommendation 7:
Greatly increase capacity to train all healthcare professionals who care for people with substance use disorders and concurrent mental disorders with evidence-based treatments and compassionate, trauma-informed responses. This will include fellowships for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and psychologists.
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Recommendation 49:
Government needs to help reduce stigma for youth. Community needs to be supportive of youth who are facing increases in substance use and understand why people may have spent CERB on substances instead of punishing people.
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Recommendation 152:
Given that the failure to invest in resources required for treatment and rehabilitation has resulted in the failure of section 718(e) of the Criminal Code and the Gladue principles to meet their intended objectives, we call upon all governments to invest in Inuit-specific treatment and rehabilitation services to address the root causes of violent behaviour. This must include but is not limited to culturally appropriate and accessible mental health services, trauma and addictions services, and access to culture and language for Inuit Justice system responses to violence must ensure and promote the safety and security of all Inuit, and especially that of Inuit women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people.
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- Corrections ,
- Culture and language ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Health ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Mental health and detention ,
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ2SIA+ people ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Pre-natal care ,
- Substance use
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Recommendation 144:
Expand non-policing options for publicly intoxicated people, including civilian-operated 24-hour sobering centres providing appropriate care for Indigenous women.
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Recommendation 3:
Establish long-term funding for violence prevention services and housing services.
- There is a need for increased long-term operational funding for VAW services.
- Funding for existing programs that have proven to work in reducing homelessness should be increased.
- Adequate funding will increase accessibility to VAW services and allow for more training to limit discrimination of women with diverse needs such as mental health and substance use issues.
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Recommendation 202:
Ensure timely, culturally safe, and evidence-based mental health and addiction services in the DTES, ranging from prevention, early intervention, treatment, crisis care, home visits, and aftercare.
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Recommendation 142:
Ensure that that all policing practices conform to the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act.
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Recommendation 9:
Ensure adequate sustainable funding for and equitable access to the full range of evidence-based care delivery options, including nurses, nurse practitioners, home health care providers, and integrated teams which include family members. The goal is optimize access to evidence-based, customized, culturally sensitive, and age appropriate pathways to recovery.
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Recommendation 12:
Endorse the creation of a provincially-recognized best practices process outlining how to involve families affected by substance use disorders, and addressing privacy/confidentiality issues through the provincial expansion of policies like Vancouver Coastal Health’s Family Involvement Policy.
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Recommendation 11:
End the criminalization of people who use or possess small amounts of illicit substances.
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