Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL
Part VII - Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services
Chapter 5 - Methadone Maintenance Program
Section VII-501 - State Methadone Authority
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code VII-501
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. OPRADA is the designated State Methadone Authority (SMA). Approval to operate by the SMA is required of all methadone maintenance programs in Louisiana.
B. SMA requirements include, but are not limited to:
1. State licensure as a substance
abuse facility.
2. Evidence of
need/community support for methadone maintenance program, including letters of
support from medical community (medical society), law enforcement agencies, and
other substance abuse treatment facilities.
3. Once in operation, SMA approval is
required for medication exceptions whereby frequency of clinic visits is
reduced and a take home supply of medication is dispensed. The request for
medication exception shall be submitted in writing to the SMA and shall be
co-signed by the patient's primary counselor, the physician, the clinic
administrator and include the following information:
a. The specific reduction in frequency of
clinic visits requested for this patient.
b. Reason given by clinic for requesting a
decrease in frequency of patient's clinic visits.
c. The patient's chemical
dependency/narcotics addiction history.
d. Date of most recent admission to clinic
and cumulative treatment history.
e. Addiction indicators exhibited at time of
most recent admission for treatment.
f. Past detoxification or withdrawal attempts
and clinic's assessment of reason(s) for failure of these attempts.
g. Reason detoxification and drug free
treatment is not recommended at this time.
h. Current medication dosage level.
i. The physician's eight point clinical
evaluation of the patient's responsibility for handling methadone.
j. Date of the most recent treatment plan
revision.
k. The current short and
long term treatment plan goals for the patient.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with 21 CFR, Part 291, Volume 45, No. 184, pages 62694-62718, September 19, 1980.
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