There is much here to interest drug and alcohol historians, historians of the state, and, perhaps most interestingly, students of regionalism. One of Martel's best chapters examines drug debates in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Prince Edward Island. In Ontario, while MLAs occasionally raised alarm about the "hippie" problem in Yorkville or the problem of glue sniffing, the government relied heavily on the advice of the internationally regarded Addiction Research Foundation (ARF), which took a more moderate and reasoned approach. In Quebec, MNAs expressed little concern about drug use, although they did create an Office for the Prevention and Treatment of Alcoholism and Other Toxicomanias (OPTAT) in 1968. Unlike ARF, which was at arm's length from the provincial government, OPTAT was created as part of a highly centralized Department of Health, which was in keeping with Quebec's emphasis on state-building in the areas of health and education in the 1960s. In British Columbia,
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