Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I've been involved directly or indirectly in this business dealing with alcohol and drugs now for over 20 years, and I've been involved that long in trying to advance the agenda dealing with alcohol and drugs. As Minister, I've been here for over three years and made significant strides, especially moving from the Chalmers report and we're going to continue to do that. We have a plan and we intend to stick to it and it's not just a case of banging up residential facilities all over the place when we know that a few years ago we did that and we ended up closing most of them because they were underutilized. We have not yet focused properly on prevention at the community level on getting people to make the right personal choices and to invest the resources at the community level, and not just have centralized facilities that are going to take up all the staff and resources we have. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 521-15(3): Addressing Drug Use In The Nwt
In the Legislative Assembly on March 2nd, 2005. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 521-15(3): Addressing Drug Use In The Nwt
Question 521-15(3): Addressing Drug Use In The Nwt
Item 6: Oral Questions
March 1st, 2005
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