Dr. Eamon Keenan:

That is where the recovery supports need to be in place for those people. This year, we have identified funding through the budget that will start to really look at recovery in a sustained manner. If we are looking at recovery we have to have peers involved. We have to have people with lived experience involved. That is all a learning process for the services. That will all be moved forward through the recommendations of the citizens' assembly and any new strategies. If people want to come off methadone then those recovery supports need to be in place. It is not necessarily always a bad thing to remain on methadone. A person in that position has stayed alive, and has got access to treatment and care.