Stand-alone Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions folded into health in new cabinet structure
British Columbia’s new health minister says she’s aiming for more treatment beds and fewer deaths in a revamped approach to the province’s drug overdose crisis.
“I think we’re in a much better position to expedite action and decision making,” Osborne said in an interview. “Now is the time to bring that together. The premier’s been very clear he expects an all-of-government approach to this.” “It’s good because the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions wasn’t ever really set up to succeed,” said DJ Larkin, executive director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition and an adjunct professor at the faculty of health sciences at Simon Fraser University.
“I’m optimistic now, of course,” said McBain. “I think change is better than being stuck in a place where there hasn’t been great movement. These seven or eight years we’ve been waiting for things to improve and they have not. So, with a change, there’s hope.”
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