This is your area of specialization, Dr. Knight. This is what you do. If I hear you correctly, realistically, the use of, as you call it, “prescribed safe supply”.... From some of the testimony we've heard, I'm not entirely sure how much prescribing is going on, simply because there doesn't always appear to be a significant doctor-patient therapeutic relationship that exists. That being said, what I heard you say just now is that the scientific evidence related to that is minimal.
Let us consider that what we're seeing with this so-called safe supply is an experiment with a terribly vulnerable population. Is that what you see it as?
Yes, I agree that perhaps the intent was to save lives, but there's no evidence, and of course you mentioned in one of your statements that it's important that we use the best evidence there is.