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Health committee  But it could have been a year before. It could have been within six months. It could have been once.

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith

Health committee  Right. I think that the recent study that was done by Dr. Breiter, which Dr. Sabet was talking about, was on casual use among university students. They were finding significant differences.

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith

Health committee  That's correct.

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith

Health committee  No. We were able to control for that, because we knew what their exposures were. We used statistical measures to control for that. There was actually an equal number of prenatally exposed in each group.

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith

Health committee  Could you say that last part again?

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith

Health committee  We did our analysis without those people in the analysis and found the same results. The other thing is that those participants hadn't smoked anything in the last month, possibly two months, so we're pretty sure those are sound results.

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith

Health committee  We did try to control for that. Yes, caffeine can affect the brain activity. Both groups had the same amount of caffeine intake and with the same times from use to imaging, so that was controlled for. I don't know about sugar. I don't know about that.

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith

Health committee  We imaged the OPPS participants when they were 18 to 21. They're now 25 to 30 years old. I would love to be able to re-image and retest them. They have been in the program since they were born and they have gone off to university or to other parts of the country, so it's hard to find them.

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith

Health committee  Subject pool, yes.

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith

Health committee  That's right.

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith

Health committee  Educate them so they don't use it. Give them other ways of feeling that dopamine high that they're searching for.

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith

Health committee  That's not my area of expertise. My opinion would be that legalizing it would increase the use.

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith

Health committee  It's a longitudinal study.

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith

Health committee  These children were followed up since they were born, every two or three years. Then the study that I did was when they were 18 to 21.

May 6th, 2014Committee meeting

Dr. Andra Smith