Act how?
Yes. Canada failed to recognize an opioid pandemic as a medical disease.
Maybe because family physicians are not qualified to treat it.
Please find me a doctor board certified to treat addiction - just ONE.

How about finding ONE Canadian medical school that has a residency in addiction as a specialty.
We may not have ONE board certified professor to teach residents how to treat addiction safely. 

Worse news is the fatal fallout from opioid misprescribing has just begun.

Callous commenters refer to opioid dependent people as "addicts." They ignore a million Canadians with legal prescriptions. Some callous commenters are prescribed 200mg of morphine daily, yet do not label themselves as addicts. When that 200mgs is slashed to 50, we will have riots in nursing homes. 
No one is qualified to fight this plague. Give victims a break.

Canadians used to have more sympathy for people who are ill.