Health committee  Perhaps I could add to that, Ms. Kwan. I'm thinking outside the box. We've been approached by a group in Sweden and also a group in Kentucky. They have built facilities where the people are diverted from jail; instead of going to jail they go to these facilities. In those facil

Health committee  Absolutely.

Health committee  To your point, I was an emergency physician in a small community for 10 years, and we had no specialists. When somebody had a fractured femur, I'd put an IV in, splint them, and then I'd call the orthopedic guy in North Bay. The difference here is that you guys aren't calling Dr.

Health committee  Okay.

Health committee  Are you sure?

Health committee  Well, we need to develop that.

Health committee  To your point, if you google “suboxone New York” or “suboxone California”, you're not going to believe what you see. There are thousands of physicians who do this. To the point of developing these guys, it wouldn't be hard. The buy-in on suboxone just hasn't been here in Canada f

Health committee  Sorry, are you asking me or Dr. Wood?

Health committee  The thing is that the end points are different. From an infectious disease and public health standpoint, that's why these things are getting started. We support a safe injection site in Ottawa. I do, and I'm involved. I started a hepatitis C clinic in Ottawa, so I'm all into publ

Health committee  Sorry, a role for what?

Health committee  It's such a small, minuscule part of what we do; I agree with my colleague. For example, in Ottawa probably only 20 to 40 homeless people would come from the shelter on Nelson Street over there. That's about it. I deal with people all across Ottawa. Nobody's going to get on a bus

Health committee  Those are amazing comments. I'd throw it back to the politicians here. You tell me why it's not happening. It was good and now it's gone. So that's the question and it's a rhetorical one. I appreciate your comment. If the will is there, if the people want to help these individu

Health committee  Yes. I believe addiction, like any other disease we face in medicine, crosses all the borders. If you're diabetic, it doesn't really matter what your income is. In a general sense, addiction, encompassing substance abuse that includes alcohol and other drugs, affects everybody.

Health committee  Okay: my answer is yes.

Health committee  First off, I'm sure you've heard a lot about this injection site thing. The word “safe” is a marketing thing. If I had a needle right now full of fentanyl, would anybody volunteer to let me stick it in their neck? I doubt it, because it's not a safe thing to put a needle full of