When the Alberta government began focussing on treatment and recovery to address the drug crisis, “harm reduction” advocates were up in arms about this different approach.
Fast forward a few months, as Alberta Minister of Mental Health and Addiction Dan Williams explains, Alberta is seeing a significant drop in drug overdoses, and more people are getting the treatment they need.
Williams joined Rachel Parker to give an update on Alberta’s recovery model.
Rachel is a seasoned political reporter who’s covered government institutions from a variety of levels. A Carleton University journalism graduate, she was a multimedia reporter for three local Niagara newspapers. Her work has been published in the Toronto Star. Rachel was the inaugural recipient of the Political Matters internship, placing her at The Globe and Mail’s parliamentary bureau. She spent three years covering the federal government for iPolitics. Rachel is the Alberta correspondent for True North based in Edmonton.
