Fact Sheet: What is MAID

Medical assistance in dying (MAID) has been a legal option for qualifying people across Canada since 2016.

In Canada, there are two ways to receive MAID:

1. A physician or nurse practitioner can administer, by intravenous, a substance that causes the death of a person who has requested it, or
2. A physician or nurse practitioner can give or prescribe to a patient a substance that they can self-administer to cause their own death.