Can a prescription cure loneliness and isolation?

On today's Big Story podcast, research shows that loneliness and isolation are real health problems for many people. If only doctors could prescribe a drug that would reconnect someone to their community and help them feel alive and happy. It turns out that there is. This is not a new pharmaceutical; it's much simpler.

Sonya Hsiung is the Director of the Social Prescription Institute of Canada. “A solution can be anything from food, to a bereavement support group, to a local coffee club, to a nature walk, to going to a museum,” says Hsiung.

Would we all be better off with a prescription for a walk in the woods? Or coffee with a friend? Could something so simple save our health care system millions of dollars?