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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="8-401" title_number="8" title_name="Substance Use Disorders Law" subtitle_number="4">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Administration shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Promote, develop, establish, conduct, certify, and monitor programs for the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation related to the misuse of alcohol and drugs; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Promote and conduct training and research related to the misuse of alcohol and drugs.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>In cooperation with the Motor Vehicle Administration, courts, police, and other agencies, the Administration shall approve appropriate programs of alcohol and drug abuse education or treatment for individuals who are convicted under § 21–902 of the Transportation Article.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The programs under this paragraph shall be coordinated with and integrated into broad planning for comprehensive community health and welfare services.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Administration shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Review and, in accordance with regulations that the Administration shall adopt, approve or disapprove each program that a public or private agency wants to offer under § 6–219(c) or § 6–220(e) of the Criminal Procedure Article;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Promptly give the Administrative Office of the Courts notice of each program approved under this paragraph;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Monitor and biennially review each program approved under this paragraph;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Investigate each complaint made in connection with a program; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Promptly give the Administrative Office of the Courts notice if the Department withdraws its approval of any program.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Administration may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Develop pilot programs;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>For these purposes and notwithstanding any other law, establish, direct, and conduct any experimental pilot clinical program for the treatment of alcohol or drug abusers, including any program to administer, under medical supervision and control, maintenance dosages of prescribed drugs;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Either alone or with other public or private agencies, direct and conduct basic research in alcohol or drug abuse, including clinical epidemiological, social science, and statistical research;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>In cooperation with the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services or any other appropriate correctional agency, establish and maintain, in any correctional institution in this State, programs for the prevention and treatment of alcohol and drug abuse and for the rehabilitation of alcohol and drug abusers; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Require a facility that provides treatment for substance use disorder to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Provide beds and services for patients’ children; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Allow a patient’s child to be in the presence of the child’s parent for the duration of the child’s parent’s treatment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
