Health committee  Good afternoon. I am Dr. Réjean Thomas. I'm not an expert on addiction, but rather sexual health. I'm going to talk to you about the link between amphetamine addiction and the current epidemic of sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, HIV and hepatitis, particularly in downto

Health committee  It's a very high addiction. It looks to me like heroin at the moment, and we don't have methadone; that's the problem. We don't have easy ways to stop it. They come, they start, they try, they do everything, but it's very highly addictive.

Health committee  Thank you. The situation has changed a lot. In the 1980s and 1990s, it was certainly cocaine, at parties for example, on occasion. We were in no way seeing the addiction we've been seeing in the last three or five years. After that, there were opioids. In Quebec, we have had ne

Health committee  I find that, in Montreal, it is completely insufficient. Crystal meth is not a drug like any other. It destroys people very quickly. Even if cocaine is used more, the consequences are not at all the same. There is little expertise and few resources. That's one of the problems. I

Health committee  Yes, but—

Health committee  No.