Health committee  I'm sorry. The audio cut out at the end.

Health committee  There are some coming onto the playing field, yes, especially when you get into the conversation about unbranded or generic manufacturers. There are standards, but there are not aggressive enough standards to prevent this. As a person, I find it unfortunate that we would allow t

Health committee  What our committee has said is that if somebody wishes to manufacture a painkiller or an addiction treatment, the minimum standard should at least be that it has to be abuse-deterrent; that is the minimum standard, if you're going to bring them into market. Ideally, if we, marke

Health committee  I don't have a background in medicine.

Health committee  No.

Health committee  Yes, that is correct.

Health committee  Yes. Actually, if you look into our product monograph, we will always say that any form of medication-assisted therapy should always be used in the context of psychosocial support. You can't just do one-offs.

Health committee  No, I didn't include Suboxone.

Health committee  No, I said “naloxone”.

Health committee  Yes, right.

Health committee  Well, yes, that comes from the belief that you're giving a drug to somebody to treat addiction, so you're giving a drug to a drug addict. That being said, there are a number of studies that prove the safety of it when used as prescribed.

Health committee  I would submit that “harm reduction” is a very charged term; however, I would submit that any form of treatment is necessarily harm reduction. Whether you're taking methadone or Suboxone, or psychosocial support, or whatever it might be, I would suggest that yes, it does need to

Health committee  I was just going to say, Dr. Lunney, that in terms of a monitoring system, I would encourage committee members to look at the RADARS system in the United States. It's quite fantastic. Is it the best there is? That I can't say, but I do know it's certainly one model we could loo

Health committee  It's based in Colorado.

Health committee  You can go skiing in Colorado, Mr. Chair.