Could you speak to any changes that you've seen in that time in terms of expanding access to virtual substance use care, and what's the big developments there that you'd love to share with our listeners?

So nurse practitioners are independent autonomous providers that are able to offer full-scope addiction medicine care provision.

We often work in close collaboration with our physician colleagues.

So speaking, you know, specifically to how nurse practitioners have expanded in virtual care would be missing out on, you know, other providers that have also expanded to, to virtual care.

Generally, there is a limited amount of nurse practitioners providing full-scope addiction medicine.

But as a collective, we are all navigating many platforms and ways that we can access our clients, particularly in rural communities, and there are now nurse practitioners prescribing through different virtual services.

And then there's the hybrid model, which is mostly what I do, which I think any rural provider needs to provide, which is being flexible and offering, like, telephone services to clients that can't come to the clinic or offering Zoom services if you have a more complicated client at a health center where a nurse is supporting an assessment and you're doing the prescribing.

What's missed out there potentially?