Thank you very much.
I first want to ask the chair if it's possible for everyone to get a copy of the report of the Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, tabled in Parliament in December 2002. I think it answers a lot of the questions that I hear people asking here, and a lot of it is detailed. For instance, what does it look like when you are overusing opiates? What are the symptoms? What are the signs?
It's all detailed in this report. I think it would be interesting for people to read it so that they can be starting off at a jumping-off point with a lot more information than is written in here.
Now I just want to change the channel a little and congratulate you on your recommendations as written in here. I like the idea you propose that the responsible level of government lets you take the lead. I think that's good.
But I want to note that everyone talks about opiates and opioids, and no one really talks about things like benzodiazepines. If any of you are as old as I am, you can remember the book I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can, which talked seriously about the use of Valium, etc. These things go on. They have been subsumed by opiates, which take all the media headlines, but they are continuing.
So I think we can talk about that. We can talk about the use of a fair number of prescription drugs that we know young people—in this report, there is some of that—take out of their parents' cabinets because the drugs give them a buzz and do all kinds of things.
Could give just a quick rundown—I have two more questions to ask, and I only have seven minutes—on what you know currently about the data available on the misuse of benzodiazepines?