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2007 California Health and Safety Code Article 2. Coordination Of Services
CA Codes (hsc:11760.5-11760.6)
HEALTH AND SAFETY CODESECTION 11760.5-11760.6
11760.5. (a) The Legislature recognizes that alcohol and other drug abuse should be viewed and treated as a health problem, as well as a law enforcement problem. The alcohol and other drug abuse problem has significant public impact and must, in addition to law enforcement, be given community, education, social, and health attention if prevention and amelioration is to be achieved. These approaches should be coordinated into a multiagency and multifaceted program for alcohol and other drug abuse control in the counties of the state. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that community alcohol and other drug abuse services shall be organized in the counties for alcohol and other drug abusers through locally administered and locally controlled community alcohol and other drug abuse programs. The community alcohol and other drug abuse programs shall operate under the principle that services are designed to be equally accessible to all persons, including persons who because of differences in language, cultural differences in language, cultural traditions, or physical disabilities, confront barriers to knowing about or to using the alcohol and other drug abuse services that are offered. 11760.6. It is the intent of the Legislature that the department encourage the development of high quality, cost-effective services. It is further the intent of the Legislature that poor quality, underutilized, duplicative, or marginal services be disapproved by the county.
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