Health committee  I said in my comments and I can't emphasize it enough that I really think Health Canada needs to revisit its grounds for the indications for using these drugs. If you find yourself in a hole, then the first thing you have to do is stop digging. Unless we stop prescribing these d

Health committee  Not quite. We published a paper a few years ago that simply looked at all of the deaths that occurred in Ontario and at the deaths that involved opioids, and we broke those up into age ranges. I think the key finding there, other than the fact that deaths involving opioids have s

Health committee  —that's the segment of the population where one in eight young people died of an opioid and, collectively, all of the person years of life lost was about one-thirteenth that of all cancers combined.

Health committee  Good morning. Thanks for the opportunity to present. By way of introduction, I'm a physician. I specialize in internal medicine and pharmacology. I'm not a specialist in addiction. I'm not somebody with extensive public health training, but I do a fair bit of research in the fie