Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 216 - Department of health › Chapter 40 - Professional licensing and facility regulation › Subchapter 05 - Professional Licensing › Part 6 - Chemical Dependency Professionals › Section 216-RICR-40-05-6.3 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. Wherever used in this Part the following
				  terms shall be construed as follows:
1.
				  "ACDP" means an advanced chemical dependency professional certification as per
				  the Rhode Island Board for Certification of Chemical Dependency Professionals
				  requirements.
2. "ACDP II" means an
				  advanced chemical dependency professional II certification as per the
				  International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium/Alcohol and Other Drug
				  Abuse, "ICRC/AODA."
3. "Act" means
				  R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 5-69, entitled, "Rhode Island Chemical Dependency
				  Professionals Act."
4. "Acudetox
				  specialist" or "ADS" means an individual licensed as a chemical dependency
				  professional or clinical supervisor who holds a certificate of training that
				  meets or exceeds the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA)
				  training from a recognized agency.
5. "Advertise" includes, but is not limited
				  to, the issuing or causing to be distributed any card, sign, or device to any
				  person; or the causing, permitting, or allowing any sign or marking on or in
				  any building or structure, or in any newspaper or magazine or in any directory,
				  or on radio or television, or by the use of any other means designed to secure
				  public attention.
6. "Approved
				  continuing education" means research and training programs, college and
				  university courses, in-service training programs, seminars and conferences
				  designed to maintain and enhance the skills of substance abuse counselors or
				  clinical supervisors and which are recognized by the ICRC/AODA member
				  board.
7. "Auricular acudetox"
				  means the subcutaneous insertion of sterile, disposable, acupuncture needles in
				  consistent, predetermined, bilateral locations on the ear in accordance with
				  the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) protocol.
8. "CDCS" means chemical dependency clinical
				  supervisor.
9. "Clergy" includes
				  any minister, priest, rabbi, Christian Science practitioner, or any other
				  similar religious counselor.
10.
				  "Continuum of care network" means public and private substance abuse care
				  agencies such as detoxification centers, emergency rooms, hospitals, treatment
				  centers, outpatient and day treatment clinics, and community residences for
				  substance abusers. This service employs or refers to medical, psychological,
				  health, and counseling professions that treat substance abuse and related
				  concerns.
11. "Department" means
				  the Rhode Island Department of Health.
12. "Director" means the Director of the
				  Rhode Island Department of Health.
13. "Documented professional work experience"
				  means the ICRC/AODA member board approved form completed by employer or
				  approved supervisor verifying dates of employment and
				  responsibilities.
14. "Experience"
				  means six thousand (6,000) hours of supervised practice of chemical dependency
				  counseling in a Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities
				  and Hospitals licensed or ICRC/AODA member board approved facility during a
				  sixty (60) month period of time immediately preceding the date of application
				  for licensure.
15. "ICRC/AODA"
				  means International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium/Alcohol and Other
				  Drug Abuse.
16. "Licensed chemical
				  dependency clinical supervisor" means an individual licensed by the Department
				  to practice and supervise substance abuse counseling and who meets the
				  qualifications set forth in the Act and the rules and regulations
				  herein.
17. "Licensing board" or
				  "Board" means the Board of Licensing for Chemical Dependency
				  Professionals.
18. "Member board"
				  means the Rhode Island Board for Certification of Chemical Dependency
				  Professionals.
19. "National
				  Acupuncture Detoxification Association" or "NADA" means the not-for-profit
				  organization that provides a certificate of acudetox training.
20. "Practice of substance abuse counseling"
				  means rendering or offering to render professional service for any fee,
				  monetary or otherwise, documented to individuals, families or groups. Those
				  professional services include the application of the ICRC/AODA specific
				  knowledge, skills, counseling theory and application of techniques to define
				  goals and develop a treatment plan of action aimed toward the prevention,
				  education or treatment in the recovery process of substance abuse within the
				  continuum of care service network. The practice further includes, but is not
				  limited to, networking and making referrals to medical, social services,
				  psychological, psychiatric, and/or legal resources when so indicated.
21. "Recognized education institution" means
				  any educational institution which grants an associate, bachelor, masters or
				  doctoral degree and which is recognized by the Board, or by a nationally or
				  regionally recognized educational or professional accrediting
				  organization.
22. "Substance abuse"
				  means addictive (chronic or habitual) consumption, injection, inhalation or
				  behavior of/with substance (such as alcohol and drugs), progressively injuring
				  and afflicting the user's psychological, physical, social, economical and/or
				  spiritual functioning.
23.
				  "Supervision" means no less than one (1) hour per week and shall consist of
				  individual or group supervision with a clinician licensed or certified in
				  substance abuse counseling with education, supervisory experience, and ethics
				  approved by the ICRC/AODA member.