Several years ago we named one of our projects More Than Meds. The aim of that project was to expand community education events across the province for people wanting learn more about medications used in the care of people with mental illness. People who came to these sessions included those with experience taking some of these medications as well as interested family members and friends. Expanding the events was done by pairing and training local community pharmacists with individuals with lived experience of mental illness and its care by the health care system. Inevitably these education events went beyond people talking about medications. The concept of more than meds recognizes the important place of medications and, at the same time, their limitations in overall health and wellness.

More to come.