All substances that young people use are being diverted in some way. A small portion of them would have been prescribed directly to them by a psychiatrist or by a family physician. The literature suggests that most young people are actually getting them from friends and from family members. They're not getting them directly from government; they're getting them from actors in their communities. These people could be better educated. They could be assisted, as Dr. Judson described, in having access to safer supplies of opioids for whatever reason they are being prescribed, either for pain management or for opioid substitution therapies.
I do want to add one more thing to the discussion. We need to understand that mental health is a very big part of addiction. We're seeing, in the safe supply and opioid substitution clinics across the country, fewer and fewer resources available to deliver the mental health and counselling services that Dr. Judson just described. There are fewer funds and fewer people delivering those. On the evidence for opioid substitution therapies, we know that they're effective in conjunction with mental health services and counselling.