Health committee  I would spend a lot of it on a marketing campaign and I think the Government of Canada right now has started a marketing campaign and it's good—there are commercials. But I think reversing this trend in prescription medications by awareness campaigns....

Health committee  I'm having a hard time hearing.

Health committee  You should be collecting the current drug trends, the rates of clients that are coming in that are.... We list three drugs of concern. We're going to up it to six. Currently, we can tell you how many of our clients coming in are listing OxyContin as their number one drug of con

Health committee  Yes, I did.

Health committee  Yes. I have submitted a document and some graphs.

Health committee  Yes, I think we have a valuable resource in our early recovering clients who are going through medically assisted detox. We do also use medically assisted treatment protocols at the Orchard. Our goal is always abstinence for our clients. They cannot always get off of the medicati

Health committee  I have a printed report that I've given.

Health committee  There are two streams. There are people who are legitimately prescribed medication for a broken ankle or a surgery or whatever, or benzodiazepines for anxiety. There are people who can use those and not become addicted. Then there are people who become addicted to the medications

Health committee  As Dr. Durnin also mentioned, we work together at the Orchard Recovery Center. We see, for theft and fraud, it's often the opioids but it's also benzodiazepines as well.

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. My name is Lorinda Strang and I'm the executive director of the Orchard Recovery Center on Bowen Island, which is a private drug and alcohol treatment centre in B.C. I'm also the co-founder of Faces and Voices of Recovery Canada