Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have a return to an oral question asked by Mr. Krutko on June 20, 2000, regarding treatment facilities for heroin addiction.
The list of treatment facilities that can be used in southern Canada are:
- • Poundmakers Adolescent Treatment Centre in St. Paul, Alberta;
- • Ranch Ehrlo Society Volatile Substance Abuse Program, Butte, Saskatchewan, for adolescents;
- • Action North Recovery Centre, High Level, Alberta, for adults and adolescents; and
- • Poundmakers in St. Albert, Alberta, for adults.
The southern facilities, in addition to providing programming for dual addictions, behavioural, psychological and suicidal problems, provide programming for heroin or cocaine addictions as part of their overall services to clients.
The territorial treatment centre, Nats' éjée K'éh, in Hay River, has also dealt with clients with heroin addictions. Effective April 1, 2000, the department provided Nats' éjée K'éh with resources to address the treatment needs of clients with a dual diagnosis, for example, a client with an addictions and a mental health diagnosis. The program, as with those in the southern facilities, is not specifically structured to provide services to clients with only cocaine and heroin addiction problems.
The assessment and referral process occurs through the local alcohol and drug project and the regional health and social services board approves the application for southern treatment. Clients must go through detoxification before entering either southern treatment programs or the program provided by Nats' éjée K'éh. Detoxification services are available at hospitals in the Northwest Territories. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.