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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 78:
Ensure post-use of force medical assessments include an assessment of the prisoner’s mental state and any potential impact on the prisoner’s mental health. When indicated, monitor and treat prisoners for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Recommendation 40:
Ensure post-use of force medical assessments include an assessment of the prisoner’s mental state and any potential impact on the prisoner’s mental health. When indicated, monitor and treat prisoners for for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Recommendation 120:
Ensure families are able to maintain an adequate standard of living by raising income assistance and disability rates, ensuring safe and affordable housing, and guaranteeing food and transit allowances.
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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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Recommendation 151:
End the criminalization of people who use or possess small amounts of illicit substances.
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Recommendation 8:
Empower families by increasing inclusion of and support for family or caregivers of loved ones with substance use disorders. This includes involving families in overdose emergency response planning, local addiction services development, and establishing supports for families provincially to bring their life experiences and knowledge to inform.
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Recommendation 56:
Eliminate the use of Emergency Response Teams in regional treatment centres and on mental health units. Ensure decisions to deploy the ERT consider the potential traumatic impact of the team on the prisoner and weigh the potential for psychological harm against the potential benefit of using this high level of force. Amend policy to reflect this.
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