2011 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 7 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 13 - SENTENCE AND IMPRISONMENT
7-13-1602. Definitions.

(a) As used in this act:

(i) "Account" means the court supervised treatment account created by W.S. 7-13-1605(a);

(ii) "Applicant" means the governing body of a city, town or county, a tribal government of either the Northern Arapaho or Eastern Shoshone tribes of the Wind River Indian Reservation or a nonprofit organization recognized under 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3);

(iii) "Continuum of care" means a seamless and coordinated course of substance abuse education and treatment designed to meet the needs of drug offenders as they move through the criminal justice system and beyond, maximizing self-sufficiency;

(iv) "Department" means the Wyoming department of health;

(v) "Dual diagnosis" means substance abuse and a co-occurring mental health disorder;

(vi) "Participant" means a substance offender or any other person as provided in title 14 of the Wyoming statutes who has been referred to and accepted into a program;

(vii) "Participating judge" means the district, juvenile, circuit, municipal or tribal court judge or magistrate acting as part of a program team;

(viii) "Program" or "court supervised treatment program" means a local court supervised treatment program that complies with rules and regulations adopted by the department;

(ix) "Program coordinator" means the person responsible for coordinating the establishment, operation, evaluation and integrity of a program;

(x) "Program team" means the team created pursuant to W.S. 7-13-1609(a);

(xi) "Recidivism" means any subsequent criminal charge;

(xii) "Referring judge" means the district, juvenile, circuit, municipal or tribal court judge or magistrate who refers a substance offender or any other person as provided in title 14 of the Wyoming statutes to a program;

(xiii) "Staffing" means the meeting of a program team before a participant's entry into the program, and during the participant's participation in the program, to plan a coordinated response to the participant's behaviors and needs;

(xiv) "Substance" means alcohol, any controlled substance as defined in W.S. 35-7-1002(a)(iv), any substance used for mind altering purpose or over-the-counter medications and inhalants which are used in a manner not intended by the manufacturer;

(xv) "Substance abuse assessment" means as defined in W.S. 7-13-1301(a)(v);

(xvi) "Substance abuse treatment" means treatment designed to provide education and therapy directed toward ending substance abuse and preventing its return;

(xvii) "Substance offender" means a person charged with a substance related offense or an offense in which substance abuse is determined from the evidence to have been a significant factor in the commission of the offense;

(xviii) "This act" means W.S. 7-13-1601 through 7-13-1615.