Question Period Note: Harm Reduction

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Harm reduction is health care and a pathway to care for many people.
• We are focused on supporting a full range of services and supports to address the diverse needs of people who use drugs, as well as enforcement efforts to protect our communities.
• This is not the time to be pitting harm reduction against treatment. The truth is, we need them both—and more.
• Our government has invested over $200 billion to support provinces and territories delivering services needed in addition to the $1 billion we have directly invested to address this crisis.
• We will use every tool at our disposal to end the toxic drug and overdose crisis.
If pressed on Harm Reduction
• No community has been left untouched by this crisis and too many people have lost family, friends and loved ones.
• We’re supporting education activities to reduce stigma and provide funding to community-led projects targeting those most impacted by substance use harms.
• We’ll keep working to ensure people who use drugs, no matter their circumstance, have the resources and support they need when they need it.
• Other Harm Reduction Tools:
o Naloxone (distribution)
o Supervised Consumption Sites
o Prescribed alternatives
o Drug checking services
o Peer-to-peer support workers programs to help those with lived and living experience

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