Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 111 - RULES OF DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH › Chapter 111-8 - HEALTHCARE FACILITY REGULATION › Subject 111-8-19 - RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS › Rule 111-8-19-.03 - Definitions

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, the
				  words and phrases set forth herein shall mean the following:
(a) "Ambulatory Detoxification Program" means
				a program for the medical management and other support for processes associated
				with the physical process of withdrawal from drugs in a non-residential
				setting. Persons treated in this setting are without unusual or significant
				medical risks or behavioral problems.
(b) "Behavior management" means those
				principles and techniques used by a facility to assist a client in facilitating
				self-control, addressing inappropriate behavior, and achieving positive
				outcomes in a constructive and safe manner. Behavior management principles and
				techniques shall be used in accordance with the client's treatment plan,
				written policies and procedures governing service expectations, treatment
				goals, safety, security, and these rules and regulations.
(c) "Branch" means a part-time (operating
				less than five days per week) substance abuse program at a site or location
				different from the location of the licensed program, yet which is operated as a
				part of the licensed program and is not separately licensed.
(d) "Department" means the Department of
				Community Health, acting through the Division of Healthcare Facility
				Regulation, or its successor.
(e)
				"Drug abuse treatment and education program" or "program" means any system of
				treatment or therapeutic advice or counsel provided for the rehabilitation of
				drug dependent persons and shall include programs offered in residential and/or
				nonresidential settings.
(f) "Drug
				dependent person" means a person who is in imminent danger of becoming
				dependent upon or addicted to the use of drugs or who habitually lacks
				self-control as to the use of drugs or who uses drugs to the extent that his
				health is substantially impaired or endangered or his social or economic
				function is substantially disrupted.
(g) "Drugs" means any substance defined as a
				drug by federal or Georgia law or any other chemical substance which may be
				used in lieu of a drug to obtain similar effects, with the exception of alcohol
				and its derivative.
(h) "Emergency
				safety interventions" means those behavioral intervention techniques that are
				authorized under an approved emergency safety intervention plan and are
				utilized by properly trained staff in an urgent situation to prevent a client
				from doing immediate harm to self or others.
(i) "Emergency safety intervention plan"
				means the plan developed by the facility utilizing a nationally recognized,
				department-approved, evidence-based, training program for emergency safety
				intervention. The plan shall clearly identify the emergency safety
				interventions staff may utilize and those that may never be used.
(j) "Final Adverse Finding" means
1) the issuance of a ruling by the
				Commissioner of the Department of Community Health on any appeal from a
				decision of a state administrative law judge or hearing examiner pursuant to a
				contested case involving the imposition of a sanction;
2) when a decision of the state
				administrative law judge or hearing examiner becomes final by operation of law
				because no appeal is made to the Commissioner of the Department of Community
				Health;
3) where the parties to a
				contested case dispose of the case by settlement; or
4) where a facility does not contest within
				the allotted time period a sanction imposed by the department.