37.106.1802    SPECIALTY MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY: DEFINITIONS

As used in ARM 37.106.1801, 37.106.1802, 37.106.1805, 37.106.1810 through 37.106.1814, 37.106.1820, 37.106.1821, 37.106.1825 through 37.106.1829, 37.106.1831 through 37.106.1833, 37.106.1841 through 37.106.1845, 37.106.1851 through 37.106.1853, the following definitions apply:

(1) "Specialty mental health facility" means a health care facility that provides specialty mental health services in a residential setting to patients with mental health conditions associated with eating disorders, pathological gambling, and sexual disorders and may include a specialty unit attached to another type of licensed health care facility.

(2) "Addiction" includes habituation, and means a psychological dependence upon a substance or behavior for the purpose of achieving euphoria or temporary relief from painful stimuli, whether or not the stimuli are internal or external in origin, and which is associated with an eating disorder, pathological gambling, or a sexual disorder.

History: Sec. 50-5-103, MCA; IMP, Sec. 50-5-103, MCA; NEW, 1991 MAR p. 2454, Eff. 12/13/91; TRANS, from DHES, 2002 MAR p. 185.