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  1. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  3. University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  4. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  5. Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  6. Department of Psychiatry, Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
  7. Chatham-Kent Clinical Trials Research Centre, Chatham, Ontario, Canada
  8. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  9. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  10. Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  11. Corresponding author: Arun V. Ravindran, MD, 100 Stokes St, Toronto, ON M6J 1H4 Canada ([email protected]).
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