Arizona Laws 36-2025. Treatment and services for intoxicated persons and persons incapacitated by alcohol
A. An intoxicated person may come voluntarily to an approved local alcoholism reception center for emergency alcoholism treatment.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-2025
- Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- center: means an initial reception agency for a person who is intoxicated or who is incapacitated by alcohol to receive initial evaluation and processing for assignment for further evaluation or into a treatment program. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
- Evaluation: means a multidisciplinary professional analysis of a person's medical, psychological, social, financial and legal conditions. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
- Incapacitated by alcohol: means that a person as a result of the use of alcohol is unconscious or has judgment otherwise so impaired that the person is incapable of realizing and making a rational decision with respect to the person's need for evaluation and treatment, is unable to take care of basic personal needs or safety such as food, clothing, shelter or medical care or lacks sufficient understanding or capacity to make or communicate rational decisions. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
- Intoxicated person: means a person whose mental or physical functioning is substantially impaired as a result of the immediate effects of alcohol in the person's system. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Treatment: means the broad range of emergency, outpatient, intermediate and inpatient services and care, including diagnostic evaluation, medical, psychiatric, psychological and social service care, vocational rehabilitation and career counseling, which may be extended to alcoholics and intoxicated persons. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
B. A person who voluntarily comes or is brought to a local alcoholism reception center and is in need of immediate medical treatment shall be referred to an approved treatment facility and shall be examined by a licensed physician as soon as possible and may be admitted as a patient or referred to another approved treatment facility or program.
C. A person who is not admitted to an approved local alcoholism reception center and who is not referred to an approved treatment facility or program and who has no funds may be taken to his home by personnel at the local alcoholism reception center. If he has no home, the approved local alcoholism reception center personnel shall assist him in obtaining shelter.
D. If the patient is admitted to an approved local alcoholism reception center for initial evaluation and processing, his family or next of kin shall be notified as promptly as possible. If an adult patient who is not incapacitated by alcohol requests that there be no notification, his request shall be respected.
E. If the administrator in charge of the approved local alcoholism reception center determines that it is for the patient’s benefit, the patient shall be encouraged to agree to assignment for further evaluation or to agree to assignment into a treatment program.