Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And I thank the witnesses for appearing here.
It's a very interesting discussion, but going to the basics, I truly am trying to understand how we properly define drug abuse or prescription drug abuse. Where do you actually draw the line, and who falls on which side? I'm not talking about the obvious places, where people are addicted and they get drugs that are prescribed for medical purposes and they use them. But if someone, for whatever reason, gets hooked on drugs and doesn't use an excessive amount, let's say a tablet a day, and there's a need, would it fall under “abuse”? How does it show in the statistics?
Now we're talking about prescription drugs. What about drugs you can take off shelves, say, and use every day? I don't know how this is recorded and how this would be different from the prescription drugs. And we're talking about opiates, amphetamines. In many countries there are labs in homes. People are making it left, right, and centre.
How do we, first of all, define it? How do we deal even with non-prescription drugs in this context?