§ 3-403. Definitions
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 43A. Mental Health
43A Okl.St.Ann. § 3-403
§ 3-403. Definitions
As used in the Oklahoma Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services Act:
3. A “drug-dependent person” means a person who is using a controlled substance as presently defined in Section 102 of the Federal Controlled Substances Act1 and who is in a state of psychic or physical dependence, or both, arising from administration of that controlled substance on an intermittent or continuous basis. Drug dependence is characterized by behavioral and other responses which include a strong compulsion to take the substance on a continuous basis in order to experience its psychic effects, or to avoid the discomfort of its absence;
5. “Medical detoxification” means diagnostic and treatment services performed by licensed facilities for acute alcohol intoxication, delirium tremens and physical and neurological complications resulting from acute intoxication. Medical detoxification includes the services of a physician and attendant medical personnel including nurses, interns and emergency room personnel, the administration of a medical examination and a medical history, the use of an emergency room and emergency medical equipment if warranted, a general diet of three meals each day, the administration of appropriate laboratory tests, and supervision by properly trained personnel until the person is no longer medically incapacitated by the effects of alcohol;
6. “Nonmedical detoxification” means detoxification services for intoxicated clients with no apparent physical or neurological symptoms requiring medical treatment as a result of their intoxication. Nonmedical detoxification includes providing a bed, oral administration of fluids, three meals a day and the taking of the client's temperature, blood pressure and pulse at least once every six (6) hours for the duration of the client's stay in the nonmedical detoxification service;
8. “Intermediate care” means an organized therapeutic environment in which a client may receive diagnostic services, counseling, vocational rehabilitation and/or work therapy while benefiting from the support which a full or partial residential setting can provide. Intermediate care should provide a transition between the inpatient detoxification facility and reintegration into community life. Intermediate care must include provision for a bed, three meals a day and medical support if needed;
9. “Transitional living facility” and “halfway house” means an approved treatment facility which offers or provides temporary residential accommodations, meals, supervision at all times residents are in the facility or on facility premises, and services, including counseling, short-term supportive care, case management, mental health services or treatment services. The terms do not include residential substance abuse centers which are facilities that provide treatment for consumers in a live-in setting that provides a regimen consisting of twenty-four (24) treatment hours per week;
10. “Short-term supportive care” means a service rendered to any person residing in a halfway house or transitional living facility which is sufficient to assist the person to meet or achieve an adequate level of daily living and to learn or develop adequate daily living skills. Daily living skills shall include, but not be limited to, resident participation in meal preparation and routine housekeeping and laundry tasks. Short-term supportive assistance includes, but is not limited to, assistance in the preparation of meals, housekeeping, laundry tasks and personal hygiene. Short-term supportive assistance shall not include medical services or personal care as defined in Section 1-820 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes;
11. “Treatment” means the broad range of emergency, inpatient, intermediate and outpatient services and care, including diagnostic evaluation, medical, psychiatric, psychological and social service care, vocational rehabilitation and career counseling, which may be extended to alcohol-dependent, intoxicated and drug-dependent persons; and
Credits
Laws 1974, c. 137, § 3, emerg. eff. May 3, 1974; Laws 1978, c. 64, § 3; Laws 1983, c. 134, § 4, eff. July 1, 1983; Laws 1986, c. 103, § 37, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Renumbered from Title 63, § 2110 by Laws 1986, c. 103, § 104, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Laws 1987, c. 225, § 43, eff. Nov. 1, 1987; Laws 1990, c. 51, § 76, emerg. eff. April 9, 1990; Laws 2001, c. 186, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 2001; Laws 2002, c. 488, § 20, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2003, c. 46, § 18, emerg. eff. April 8, 2003; Laws 2003, c. 196, § 4, emerg. eff. May 7, 2003; Laws 2006, c. 97, § 11, eff. Nov. 1, 2006; Laws 2013, c. 213, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2017, c. 303, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2017.
Footnotes
21 U.S.C.A. § 802.
43A Okl. St. Ann. § 3-403, OK ST T. 43A § 3-403
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 106 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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