Sec. 533.086. USE OF DEPARTMENT FACILITIES BY SUBSTANCE ABUSERS  


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  • (a) The department shall annually provide the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse with an analysis by county of the hospitalization rates of persons with substance abuse problems. The analysis must include information indicating which admissions were for persons with only substance abuse problems and which admissions were for persons with substance abuse problems but whose primary diagnoses were other types of mental health problems.

    (b) Not later than September 1 of each even-numbered year, the department and the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse shall jointly estimate the number of facility beds that should be maintained for persons with substance abuse problems who cannot be treated in the community.

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.