It is fair.
The problem with pharmacies over the last decade is that we haven't really sold ourselves well as a profession. But we're certainly more educated—no disrespect to dentists or doctors—in the actual therapeutics and some of the side effects, and seeing diversion at the ground level. We know the problems, we see the acting, the potential for abuse, and we can actually have a big effect and we probably are, already.
I think that education, as I alluded to earlier, has to happen at the pharmacy schools, to make sure that we're ready in how to treat the problem, because if we're going to identify the addiction problem, then we had better be ready to treat it as well, appropriately and respectfully.
I'm so glad you brought up the prison system because a lot of my patients became addicted in prison, which is the first time I'm hearing that. Whether they're incarcerated because of break and enters as children or whatever led them to the criminal system, they actually became addicted in prison, which is traumatic.
I have information, if anyone is interested, on Recovery Kentucky. Rather than putting patients back in jail, they put them in treatment. This is funded through the judicial system, not through the health care system, which is an interesting thing you need to look into.