What’s covered
The Ontario Drug Benefit program covers most of the cost of more than 4,400 prescription drug products.
It also helps you pay for:
- allergy shots and EpiPen® (used in response to severe allergic reaction)
- some products used in monitoring and testing for diabetes
- some prescribed over-the-counter drugs under specific circumstances (e.g.Ibuprofen 200mg, Ferrous sulphate 300)
- some nutrition products
- some drugs used in treatment of HIV/AIDS
- some drugs used in palliative care
- help to quit smoking:
- up to a year of pharmacist-assisted counselling (talk to your pharmacist or health care provider)
- drugs (Champix or Zyban) if you are age 18 years or older
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