Requires mental health practitioners to receive training on substance use disorder, the specific needs of the substance use disorder community and co-occurring disorders.
Establishes a time-limited blue ribbon panel on co-occurring disorders to develop a statewide framework for the integration of mental health and substance use services.
Replaces certain appearances of the words addict, addicts and addiction with the words person with a substance use disorder, person with a mental health disorder, person with co-occurring disorder, person in recovery, or a variation thereof.
Relative to studying and improving the continuum of care for persons with mental health, substance use and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders