Status of Women committee  Dr. Leitch, given your experience as a physician, and recognizing that the burden of the opioid crisis, specifically related to the prescription of opioids to women, isn't entirely on physicians, what role do physicians play in solutions?

Status of Women committee  I am sure that women are personally affected, but right at this moment I don't have the statistics to comment effectively on that.

Status of Women committee  I will look at the statistics and get back to you.

Status of Women committee  I am in health sciences.

Status of Women committee  Sorry, I forgot the first part of your question.

Status of Women committee  In the health sciences program, our understanding of the human is very broad. We see the human as obviously the biological process—and we do learn about physiology and all that typical bio stuff—but we also have an extreme focus, right from our very first year, on the social dete

Status of Women committee  Yes. It's not necessarily a social worker. I'm a graduating health sciences student at Western University. We're looking into the implementation of a social prescription checklist for doctors. We know that doctors' time with the patients is relatively limited, so it's about givin

Status of Women committee  I don't. I think it's growing, and I think it starts at the medical admission process. It has been relatively test-based, and the curriculum doesn't allow for doctors to gain an understanding of the social determinants of health. It has been functioning on the biomedical model, w

Status of Women committee  My name is Nokuzola, but you can call me Zola. I'm a body—a biological process—but I very much belong to social systems. Frankly, my mom might have given me a pep talk before I got here. In 2017, nearly 4,000 people died from opioid-related causes in Canada. Over the past five