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California Codes > California Health and Safety Code > Drug Dealer Liability Act > § 11701

The purpose of this division is to provide a civil remedy
for damages to persons in a community injured as a result of the use
of an illegal controlled substance. These persons include parents,
employers, insurers, governmental entities, and others who pay for
drug treatment or employee assistance programs, as well as infants
injured as a result of exposure to controlled substances in utero ("
drug babies"). This division will enable them to recover damages from
those persons in the community who have joined the marketing of
illegal controlled substances. A further purpose of this division is
to shift, to the extent possible, the cost of the damage caused by
the existence of the market for illegal controlled substances in a
community to those who illegally profit from that market. The further
purpose of this division is to establish the prospect of substantial
monetary loss as a deterrent to those who have not yet entered into
the distribution market for illegal controlled substances. The
further purpose is to establish an incentive for users of illegal
controlled substances to identify and seek payment for their own
treatment from those dealers who have sold illegal controlled
substances to the user in the past.

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