Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for coming here this morning.
On this prescription drug abuse, we've been conducting this study for several months. We've heard from doctors and law enforcement officers, and now, thank you for coming.
It is a problem. I don't think it's a problem that's occurring only in Canada.
However, the first question I have is very specific to prescription drug abuse. In your presentation, you gave us a wide scope on substance abuse and other problems related to it, but can you tell this committee if there are any initiatives within first nation communities to monitor prescription drug use? That's not abuse, necessarily, because at some point if a person has a medical condition that needs certain medication—whether it's something natural that the community knows about or, in this case, opioids—it has to be prescribed by the doctor. Of course, the danger is that the person may get addicted to the medication.
Can you elaborate on this? What is your approach? Is there anything the communities are doing to prevent addiction to opioids that are needed to treat medical conditions?