Dr. Bernard Kenny:

We recognise the harms from criminalising people, and we can see the effects. A big part of recovery from addiction is a sense of hope and, as I said earlier, taking up meaningful employment in the future, having opportunities to return to education and not to be further stigmatised by society. We see convicting people and criminalising individuals as an impediment to them having an opportunity for a sustained recovery. That would be our position.