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Health & Healthcare

Drugs and addiction platforms

Here's what the 2023 PEI election parties are promising.

PC

  • Provide $250K to allow workers who work with vulnerable people to take the Brain Story Certification training

    "Provide $250,000 to facilitate frontline workers — such as social workers, healthcare professionals, correctional workers, police officers and anyone who works with vulnerable Islanders — to take the Brain Story Certification training to better understand the connection between brain development to addiction and mental health" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24

  • Invest in a dedicated site in Charlottetown to provide wrap-around services for vulnerable Islanders

    "Invest in a Charlottetown-based dedicated site to provide wrap-around services for vulnerable Islanders, including but not limited to Community Outreach Centre, supportive housing, housing that fosters independent living, harm reduction programs, social supports, training programs, etc." — With You. For You., 2023-03-24

Green

  • Create a detox facility in Summerside
  • Expand residential and outpatient treatment options

    "Healthcare services should be relevant to the communities receiving those services. Summerside has particularly acute challenges with addictions and would be well served by the provision of withdrawal management (detox) services close to home.

    A new withdrawal management facility in Summerside will also help ease backlogs and shorten wait times at the existing provincial addictions facility in Mount Herbert. This would be an expansion in the overall provincial capacity, as such, we would not expect a corresponding reduction in capacity in the Mount Herbert facility or the planned mental health campus.

    Cost estimate: approximately $10 million over three years." — peigreens.ca backgrounder, 2023-03-16

  • Provide the Charlottetown overdose prevention site all resources it needs, including consulting with the community and those accessing the service

    "Make sure the overdose prevention site in Charlottetown has all the resources needed to succeed, including consultation with the community and those accessing the service." — 2023 Election Platform, 2023-03-23

We don't have any Liberal policies on Drugs and addiction.

NDP

  • Develop community-based youth addiction and prevention programmes
  • Include harm reduction centres in community health hubs

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