Alberta Looking to Get ‘Every Single Red Cent’ From Opioid Class-Action Lawsuits

Alberta Looking to Get ‘Every Single Red Cent’ From Opioid Class-Action Lawsuits
5-mg Oxycodone pills in a file photo. Keith Srakoci/AP Photo/The Canadian Press
Chandra Philip
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Alberta is pushing for legislation changes that would allow it to expand and adjust class-action lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and wholesalers in a bid to recover health-care costs associated with the province’s ongoing addiction crisis.

Mental Health and Addiction Minister Dan Williams said he is “determined to get every single red cent I can from those who are responsible for causing this crisis.”