Alberta's Minister of Mental Health and Addiction, Dan Williams, has introduced updated legislation aimed at holding those responsible for the opioid addiction crisis accountable. The province has also released a document outlining strategies to support individuals struggling with substance use in the workplace. These strategies include reducing stigma, encouraging help-seeking behavior, and implementing recovery-focused recruitment and retention practices.
Dan Williams, Alberta's minister of mental health and addiction, has introduced updated legislation that it says would help make sure anyone who contributed to the opioid addiction crisis is held responsible. Williams is sworn into cabinet, in Edmonton on Friday, June 9, 2023.
The province and the provincial Crown corporation Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence released a document with ideas to help those struggling in the workplace. It suggests ways to reduce stigma, encourage people to ask for help and foster recovery-focused recruitment and retention practices. “Wherever someone is suffering from addiction, we want to meet them there and give them an off-ramp out of addiction,” Williams said.
“Addiction leads to only one of two ends … It either ends in recovery and secondly, more tragically, the outcome of death.”Williams said one in five Albertas have mental health issues. The Crown recovery corporation said employers would save $8,500 annually per employee with recovery-friendly workplace policies.
OPIOID CRISIS MENTAL HEALTH ADDICTION WORKPLACE SUPPORT RECOVERY
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