Current through the 2024 Budget Session
Section 5-12-104 - Definitions(a) As used in this act:(i) "Account" means the court supervised treatment account created by W.S. 5-12-107(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 Wyoming supreme court;(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. 5-12-111(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. 5-12-101 through 5-12-118 .Renumbered from 7/13/1602and amended by Laws 2023, ch. 1, § 2, eff. 7/1/2024.