Diane McIntosh: B.C. Pharmacare is letting down British Columbians

The fentanyl crisis is largely a mental health crisis, as I pointed out in a recent commentary. One of the reasons for that situation is the lack of access to timely and appropriate mental health and addiction treatment. This includes the lack of access to skilled mental health care providers and to safe, effective, tolerable treatments.
Media reports and online forums often perpetuate myths regarding psychiatric medications: they don’t work, they’re all the same, they make everyone