How governments fund the country's fight against the opioid crisis might explain 'a lack of progress' on the issue, say newly disclosed documents on an alternative Health Canada is considering.
Prescription pills containing oxycodone and acetaminophen are shown in this June 20, 2012 photo. OTTAWA -- How governments fund the country's fight against the opioid crisis might explain "a lack of progress" on the issue, say newly disclosed documents on an alternative Health Canada is considering.
Funding programs based on a tight focus on successful results is something Health Canada has reviewed for months as part of a wider federal effort to find new ways to finance and test social services in a way that limits risk to government coffers. The paper was a final report from Toronto-based Centre for Addiction and Mental Health -- Canada's biggest mental-health teaching hospital -- and the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing, which were helping Health Canada study social-impact bonds, as the financing model is known.One section of the report notes the political implications for governments.
"They're not going to happen without government involvement. You do need government to back them in some way, either to provide the return or to provide the base payments depending on what the model may be."
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