Health committee  I'm not sure I completely understand because I may not know the history.

Health committee  There are quite a number of things that have been shown to be very useful. Again, chronic pain is more of the concern that I have as opposed to acute pain, where you can get a drug for a short period. And there are things like cognitive behavioural therapy, for example. There's v

Health committee  Biofeedback, acupuncture....

Health committee  Yes, we have that too.

Health committee  Certainly, in my experience, because I work primarily with physicians, yes.

Health committee  I think my colleagues would agree that's a very good and difficult question to answer, certainly nationally here, unless somebody knows something that I don't. I don't think we have such a database.

Health committee  There are some tools to evaluate addiction potential. In fact, the CPSO—it's in your document, it's in the guidelines actually—have produced some. There are also some in the Canadian guidelines for opioids, and we're going to have them in our guidelines. They're not great. They'r

Health committee  If I may comment, only because of my involvement with CCSA and the RCDSO document on the education committee, and being an educator and member of the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain, I think it was very well summed up by Mr. Barnes. First of all, there are at

Health committee  My working group coming out of the First Do No Harm exercise is actually looking at and will be making recommendations. You're quite right: it's not just knowledge of the addiction issue and how easy it is to become addicted, but things that have been mentioned like storing of

Health committee  Thank you. To begin, I have a slight correction to make on the credentialing. Dr. David Segal and I were on the larger federal body for the CCSA that produced the First Do No Harm document, which I'm sure you've seen. But that was a large national body and the two of us were jus