2025 Session Last amended: 2024 session

§ 245G.04 — Service Initiation

Plain-Language Summary

This section sets the steps a substance use disorder treatment program must take when service first begins. The program must complete an initial services plan within 24 hours of service initiation, addressing the client's immediate health and safety concerns and treatment needs until a full individual treatment plan is developed. Within 24 hours, the program must also determine whether the client is a vulnerable adult (every adult client of a residential program counts as one) and prepare an individual abuse prevention plan if so. The program must provide commissioner-approved opioid educational material to the client on the day service begins.

Practical Notes
On the first day of service, complete the initial services plan within 24 hours, screen for vulnerable adult status within 24 hours (residential adult clients are automatically vulnerable adults, requiring an individual abuse prevention plan), and hand the client the commissioner-approved opioid education materials covering overdose risk and opiate antagonist use.