Ohio Code 5119.365 – Rules regarding intake and retention procedures
The director of mental health and addiction services shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119 of the Revised Code to do both of the following:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5119.365
- Addiction: means the chronic and habitual use of alcoholic beverages, the use of a drug of abuse as defined in section 3719. See Ohio Code 5119.01
- Addiction services: means services, including intervention, for the treatment of persons with alcohol, drug, or gambling addictions, and for the prevention of such addictions. See Ohio Code 5119.01
- Community addiction services provider: means an agency, association, corporation or other legal entity, individual, or program that provides one or more of the following:
(a) Alcohol and drug addiction services that are certified by the director of mental health and addiction services under section 5119. See Ohio Code 5119.01
(A) Streamline the intake procedures used by a community addiction services provider accepting and beginning to serve a new individual, including procedures regarding intake forms and questionnaires;
(B) Enable a community addiction services provider to retain an individual as an active patient even though the patient last received services from the provider more than thirty days before resumption of services so that the individual and provider do not have to repeat the intake procedures.