I'll go in a little bit of a different direction here. Historically our approach to drugs and drug addiction has been to control substances that we consider highly addictive, and dangerous in that sense. However, in recent years, research done by people like Dr. Bruce Alexander in Vancouver and Dr. Gabor Maté suggests that people get addicted not because of the substances but because they lack human connections. If you address the human connections in their lives, you improve their quality of life and they're no longer as susceptible to addiction.
This question is for the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and probably also to the health department. Are you aware of these studies, and do you have an opinion on them? If so, would you share that with me?