Sure. One thing that we should look at is the supply of opioids in a population. If you look at the countries that had the highest overdose rates in 2020, the number one country was the United States of America. I think it was around 271 deaths per million population. This is also the country that had the highest supply of opioids among the population.
Fentanyl is an important aspect of this, but how do people end up overdosing on fentanyl? Oftentimes the story is that people started with legal substances that were prescribed, and then they become addicted and develop a tolerance, and then that no longer works for them. They shift to the illicit market at that point, because they need something stronger.
I mentioned 2020, and in that year, the rate of overdose deaths in British Columbia was 340 per million. It's much higher than what's occurring in the United States. It's much higher than in any other province in Canada. As of last year, it's gone up to, I think, 444 per million, so there's been a massive increase as well. What I worry about is the supply of opioids among the population.