Health committee  I'm with Dr. Bromley. There are a variety of things that are addictive, and marijuana is probably one of them. Addiction is an interaction between a substance and a person. Some people are addicted to a variety of things, and that's a very complex story. As far as clinical use g

Health committee  Looking at the clock, I'll rely on the chair to restrict this little excursion. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse has initiated a national strategy that is not unlike the things you've described. They've brought together people from law enforcement, the pharmaceutical indus

Health committee  No, I'm going to watch this one go by.

Health committee  Yes. I think I referred to that in my remarks at the beginning. That information is well known, and it's a function of a number of things. It's a function of belief about the dangers of giving analgesics, although in the setting that you described, that danger is minimized beca

Health committee  No, this study is brilliant. The care is flawed.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  It turns out that's actually a question I know the answer to, which is comforting. The college of dentistry in Canada and in Ontario, the Royal College of Dentists, is actually addressing that issue specifically. I mentioned David Mock, the past dean of dentistry at the Universit

Health committee  You're aware of my predilection for talking.

Health committee  If I may, I'll note that there are several layers of information. At the large population level, there's obviously epidemiologic data that's obtained from the surveys that have been referred to previously, some of them looking at health behaviours, and some of them looking at rep

Health committee  The jurisdictional issue is a big problem, but what's crucial is the capacity to have readily accessible information transferred amongst provinces so that health-care providers at the front line are able to understand what is going on with their patients and know what medications

Health committee  Right now, to the best of my knowledge, Calgary has a multidisciplinary pain clinic that probably is unequalled—I'm not sure if this is a province-wide strategy or just specific to Calgary—in the country in its capacity to identify and treat patients with complex chronic pain pro

Health committee  There are a couple of things. One is that it is the case—and you can look at examples like the strategy against HIV—that concerted attention to a specific problem has led to dramatic improvement in our capacity to deal with conditions. Montreal is unique. McGill University, in pa

Health committee  There you go. Granted, $55 million is not trivial but relatively speaking, pain does not have a pillar. I appreciate the fact this sounds like scrinching, or something, because $55 million is not trivial but there are no pillars, for example, directed towards pain management. As

Health committee  My apologies. I think the simplest thing to do would be to conclude by saying that a variety of issues have to do with chronic pain treatment. A lot of the issues have to do with the ability to provide appropriate care, which is currently possible in some situations and in some

Health committee  You mean I get a chance to use the rest of the brilliant speech?