Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 71-423

• Care: means the exercise of concern or responsibility for the comfort, welfare, and habilitation of persons, including a minimum amount of supervision and assistance with or the provision of personal care, activities of daily living, health maintenance activities, or other supportive services. See Nebraska Statutes 71-407
• Mental health substance use treatment center: means a facility where shelter, food, and counseling, supervision, diagnosis, treatment, care, rehabilitation, assessment, or related services professionally directed are provided for a period of more than twenty-four consecutive hours to persons residing at such facility who have a mental illness or substance use disorder or both, with the intention of reducing or ameliorating the disorder or disorders or the effects of the disorder or disorders. See Nebraska Statutes 71-423
• Mental illness: means a wide range of mental health disorders that affect mood, thinking, and behavior and can result in significantly impaired judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to address basic life necessities and requires care and treatment for health, safety, or recovery of the individual or for the safety of others. See Nebraska Statutes 71-423.01
• Substance use disorder: means a medical illness caused by repeat misuse of a substance or substances, characterized by clinically significant impairments in health, social function, and impaired control over substance use and diagnosed through assessing cognitive, behavioral, and psychological symptoms. See Nebraska Statutes 71-430
• Treatment: means a therapy, modality, product, device, or other intervention used to maintain well being or to diagnose, assess, alleviate, or prevent a disability, injury, illness, disease, or other similar condition. See Nebraska Statutes 71-431