2025 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 222 - Kentucky alcohol and other drug abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment law 222.500 Definitions for KRS 222.500 to 222.510.
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222.500 Definitions for KRS 222.500 to 222.510.
As used in KRS 222.500 to 222.510:
(1) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;
(2) "Certifying organization" means:
(a) The Kentucky Recovery Housing Network;
(b) The National Alliance for Recovery Residences or their recognized affiliates;
(c) Oxford House, Inc.; and
(d) Any other organization that develops and administers professional
certification programs requiring minimum standards for the operation of
recovery residences that has been recognized and approved by the Cabinet for
Health and Family Services;
(3) "Local government" means a city, county, urban-county government, consolidated
local government, charter county government, or unified local government;
(4) "Medication for addiction treatment" means the use of pharmacological agents
approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of
substance use disorders in combination with counseling and other behavioral health
therapies to provide a whole-patient approach to the treatment of substance use
disorders;
(5) "Recovery residence":
(a) Means any premises, place, or building that:
1.
Holds itself out as a recovery residence, recovery home, sober living
residence, alcohol, illicit drug, and other intoxicating substance-free
home for unrelated individuals, or any other similarly named or
identified residence that promotes substance use disorder recovery
through abstinence from intoxicating substances; and
2.
Provides a housing arrangement for a group of unrelated individuals
who are recovering from substance use disorders or to a group of parents
who are recovering from a substance use disorder and their children,
including peer-to-peer supervision models; and
(b) Does not include any premises, place, or building that is licensed or otherwise
approved by the cabinet or any other agency of state government to operate as
a residential or inpatient substance use treatment facility;
(6) "Recovery support services":
(a) Means activities that are directed primarily toward recovery from substance
use disorders and includes but is not limited to mutual aid self-help meetings,
recovery coaching, spiritual coaching, group support, and assistance in
achieving and retaining gainful employment; and
(b) Does not include any medical, clinical, behavioral health, or other substance
use treatment service for which a license or other approval is required under
state law; and
(7) "Resident-driven length of stay" means the amount of time an individual is allowed
to stay at a recovery residence as determined by the individual resident based upon
his or her recovery needs and not by a third-party payor.
Effective: July 15, 2024
History: Amended 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 132, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2024. -- Created
2023 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 1, effective June 29, 2023.
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