Cultural healing practice within National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program/Youth Solvent Addiction Program services

The intent of this document is to culturally inform the First Nations Addictions Advisory Panel whose mandate is to review the evidence and make recommendations regarding the best strategies for the revitalization and further strengthening of NNADAP and YSAP. [...] The results of this discussion will help the Addictions Advisory Panel to review the evidence and make recommendations regarding the best strategies for the revitalization of NNADAP and YSAP. [...] They tell us that the structure, pattern and processes of creation are repeated in all aspects of life, from the structure of the universe to the structure of both human and other-than-human beings. [...] To recognize this is the key to understanding the indigenous way of being, knowing, perceiving, behaving, and the indigenous way of living in the world. [...] An indigenous person cannot talk about being an intelligent person without knowledge of, and access to, all the levels of indigenous intelligence: the intelligence of the body, the mind, the heart and the spirit.