Thank you. I appreciate that.
It's frustrating to me. I also think this information is extremely damaging. The addiction crisis is incredibly troubling. In my home province, there are five addiction deaths a day. This is not something small. This is not something I take lightly.
I don't think giving more drugs is somehow going to solve the problem. If that were the case, we wouldn't have anyone dying from alcoholism, yet we have alcoholism leading in deaths across the country.
My question is going to be for Dr. Rob Tanguay.
You talked in your opening statement about some of the OAT pieces. I am just wondering whether you could explain to the committee in a bit more detail what OAT is and how Alberta goes about getting rapid access to OAT prescriptions for people struggling with addictions.