Thank you to the Winnipeg-Transcona Rotary Club for their invitation to speak to them about public policy with respect to brain and mental health. My talk centred on the need to address changes I am advocating for including - an improved approach to addressing homelessness, employing significant numbers of peer support workers, putting some psychological services under medicare as we do for doctors, addressing lifestyle factors important for optimum brain health and ensuring family and community members are helped by health professionals in providing a circle of support for those with brain and mental health issues.
Dougald Lamont speaks at Meth Forum last night to present positive ideas to address the epidemic, while exposing the lack of action by the Pallister Conservatives
Last night at the Notre Dame Recreation Centre in St. Boniface, at an Election Forum on the Meth Crisis in Manitoba, Dougald Lamont spoke eloquently about the severity of the meth epidemic and described the Liberal plan to address it. The Liberal Plan will make sure that there is a single province-wide phone number for people, or friends of people, who need help dealing with meth to call (as there is in Alberta) and that there will be rapid access to a seamless series of steps - stabilization, detoxification, treatment, extended supportive housing etc so that people with meth addiction can be helped well and effectively and so that they can rebuild their lives. The Liberal meth plan will be helped by our approach to mental health (putting psychological therapies under medicare), and to poverty (providing better support). It will also be helped by our vigorous efforts to help young people understand the problems with meth in our education system and to provide alternative positive
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