Thank you.
I want to talk about prescribing guidelines. In the U.S., new opioid prescribing guidelines were released by the CDC in March of this year that focused on rationalizing prescribing practices and patient education. The College of Physicians and Surgeons in British Columbia has released new professional standards and guidelines closely modelled on the CDC guidelines. I'm told that the B.C. standards are more strict than Canada's national guidelines, which have not been revised since 2010, and which may be out of date with current research on taking painkillers.
I know that the guidelines are expected to be updated in January, but given the severity of the overdose crisis, Ms. Geller, do you think that we should be speeding up that process so that we can update our national prescribing guidelines?