Health committee  We don't really. We have some one-off surveys or one-off studies, but really, we don't know. One of the recommendations in here was that we need to invest in what my colleagues from Health Canada were talking about, which is a good national drugs observatory, so that we truly un

Health committee  Is there a specific aspect that you'd like me to comment on?

Health committee  Certainly, further investment in treatment is important, absolutely. Treatment is usually delivered at the provincial level, so it's difficult for me to just give a sum. Certainly, though, further investments in treatment are required.

Health committee  Yes. Oftentimes, it's about supply and demand. As supply increases and moves into different areas and people have access, that's very possible. We have seen an increase in all provinces. We've focused on the western provinces, but there has been an increase in all provinces. It

Health committee  Though the rise in methamphetamine harms observed over the last 10 years is not as great as those associated with opioids, this increase should not be ignored. The federal government could capitalize on those investments already made to address the opioid crisis by using them to

Health committee  That's correct, yes. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. My name is Matthew Young. I'm a senior research and policy analyst at the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, and an adjunct research professor of psychology at Carleton Univer

Health committee  Around 2014, we became aware of organized crime taking fentanyl and putting it into counterfeit OxyContin tablets. I don't know a lot of the answers to your specific question about whether that intervention was the key one that should have been done. I do know that around that ti

Health committee  One of the things we've seen for quite some time is that there are a lot of interventions that have been put into place that will ideally, if they are effective, decrease the demand for opioids in the long term, but one of the immediate impacts they've had is to decrease the supp