Substance Abuse Services (Residential)

Substance Abuse Services (residential) is the provision of services for the treatment of drug or alcohol use disorders in a residential setting to include screening, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of substance use disorder. This service includes:

• Pretreatment/recovery readiness programs
  
• Harm reduction
  
• Behavioral health counseling associated with substance use disorder
  
• Medication assisted therapy
  
• Neuro-psychiatric pharmaceuticals
  
• Relapse prevention
  
• Detoxification, if offered in a separate licensed residential setting (including a separately-licensed detoxification facility within the walls of an inpatient medical or psychiatric hospital)
  

Program Guidance:

Substance Abuse Services (residential) is permitted only when the client has received a written referral from the clinical provider as part of a substance use disorder treatment program funded under the RWHAP.

Substance Abuse Services (residential) are not allowable services under RWHAP Parts C and D.

Acupuncture therapy may be allowable funded under this service category only when it is included in a documented plan as part of a substance use disorder treatment program funded under the RWHAP.

RWHAP funds may not be used for inpatient detoxification in a hospital setting, unless the detoxification facility has a separate license.

See also:

Substance Abuse Services (Outpatient)

For the purposes of this document, need is based on the response of a consumer when asked if there was a service they needed. MMP interviews patients in care and asks consumers if they need a service and if they receive it. Client services unit data identifies needs at the time of initial intake.