I'm sorry, Dr. Patel, but can I interrupt you? There are only two witnesses, so you'd think I have a lot of time, but I probably have only one chance to ask questions.
You seem like a supporter of safe supply. I know the Swiss model of safe supply is heroin-assisted treatment. There's a lot of evidence on that and directly observed treatment, which I have no problem with. However, someone have described safe supply in most of Canada as the poor man's version of that—giving people a bunch of pills because it's easier to give them a bunch of Dilaudid than it is to observe them injecting it.
The concern is diversion. One psychiatrist in Vancouver told me that he has a lot of kids on Dilaudid and a lot of them move on to fentanyl. I asked him why, and he said that when he asked his kids why, they said you can now buy one dilly on the street for a dollar in places. It used to cost $20, but because of diversion, the price has come down. A dilly costs one dollar. A joint costs five dollars. It's just simple economics. Do you want a buzz? Try—