R-2.2.0.0.01 - Opioid-related Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act

Section 10 Disposition versions

2023-11-02

10. For the purposes of this Act, health care is opioid-related when the disease, injury or illness warranting it, or the risk of such a disease, injury or illness, is caused or contributed to by the health care recipient’s exposure to an opioid product, including the use of such a product, whether by ingestion, inhalation, injection, application or assimilation and whether intentional or otherwise.

The fact that an opioid product was combined with another drug or substance or that the product was used in a form other than the one prescribed or advised by a health professional or the one recommended by the product’s manufacturer, or the fact that the health care recipient was exposed to the product in a manner other than the one prescribed, advised or recommended, as applicable, by a health professional or the manufacturer has no impact on causation between the exposure to the opioid product and the disease, injury or illness suffered by the recipient who was exposed to it.

For the purposes of this Act, “disease, injury or illness” also includes general deterioration of health or problematic use of, or addiction to, opioid products.

2023, c. 25, s. 10.