I take objection to the idea that I only look after one patient. It's true that I look after one patient at a time, but there is a cohort of patients I manage collectively at Inner City Health. It's not just one patient, and all of their well-being is important to me.
The treatment approach that I use is really not that different from the infrastructure of diabetes. There is a community of patients who have diabetes, have home care, have foot care and have regular clinic visits. There's an entire infrastructure that we as a society have collectively put in place to help manage them, because we view that as an important problem.
I think we should take the same approach to substance and drug use, because it is not a single patient issue, it's not a single entity and it's not an acute problem. It's a chronic problem.