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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 20001

  • Prevention: means any activity designed to educate or provide information to individuals and groups about the use of alcohol and other drugs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 20003
  • Treatment: means the broad range of emergency, outpatient, intermediate and inpatient services and care, including career counseling, diagnostic evaluation, employment, health, medical, psychiatric, psychological, recreational, rehabilitative, social service care, treatment and vocational services, that may be extended to a drug user, a person with substance use disorder or a person in need of assistance due to the use of a dependency-related drug. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 20003
This chapter may be known and cited as the “Maine Substance Use Disorder Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Act.” [PL 2019, c. 524, §1 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY

PL 1989, c. 934, §A3 (NEW). PL 2017, c. 407, Pt. A, §10 (AMD). PL 2019, c. 524, §1 (AMD).