Amid Canada's mental health care crisis, it's time to prioritize universal access to medication

Amid Canada's mental health care crisis, it's time to prioritize universal access to medication

In Canada, a country celebrated for its fair and universal health care system, a significant disparity exists today around the accessibility of medicines for mental illness. This inequity not only underscores a critical gap in our health care model, but it also highlights the need for an improved mental health approach in all Pan-Canadian initiatives, including future national universal pharmacare.