2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 27 - Behavioral Health
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Article 81 - Alcohol Abuse, Education, Prevention, and Treatment
§ 27-81-102. Definitions

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Alcoholic" means a person who habitually lacks self-control as to the use of alcoholic beverages or uses alcoholic beverages to the extent that his or her health is substantially impaired or endangered or his or her social or economic function is substantially disrupted. Nothing in this subsection (1) shall preclude the denomination of an alcoholic as intoxicated by alcohol or incapacitated by alcohol.

(2) "Approved private treatment facility" means a private agency meeting the standards prescribed in section 27-81-106 (1) and approved under section 27-81-106.

(3) "Approved public treatment facility" means a treatment agency operating under the direction and control of or approved by the unit or providing treatment under this article through a contract with the unit under section 27-81-105 (7) and meeting the standards prescribed in section 27-81-106 (1) and approved under section 27-81-106.

(4) "Court" means the district court in the county in which the person named in a petition filed pursuant to this article resides or is physically present. In the city and county of Denver, "court" means the probate court.

(5) "Department" means the department of human services created in section 26-1-105, C.R.S.

(6) "Director" means the director of the unit.

(7) "Emergency service patrol" means a patrol established under section 27-81-115.

(8) "Executive director" means the executive director of the department.

(9) "Incapacitated by alcohol" means that a person, as a result of the use of alcohol, is unconscious, has his or her judgment otherwise so impaired that he or she is incapable of realizing and making a rational decision with respect to his or her need for treatment, is unable to take care of his or her basic personal needs or safety, or lacks sufficient understanding or capacity to make or communicate rational decisions about himself or herself.

(10) Repealed.

(11) "Intoxicated person" or "person intoxicated by alcohol" means a person whose mental or physical functioning is temporarily but substantially impaired as a result of the presence of alcohol in his or her body.

(12) "Licensed physician" means either a physician licensed by the state of Colorado or a hospital-licensed physician employed by the admitting facility.

(13) "Minor" means a person under the age of eighteen years.

(14) "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, that may be extended to alcoholics and intoxicated persons.

(15) "Unit" means the unit in the department that administers behavioral health programs and services, including those related to mental health and substance abuse.