P.A. 22-92 AAC Various Revisions to the Public Health Statutes. (H.B. 5485)
This bill makes various, unrelated changes in the public health statutes. It:
- allows licensed professional counselors and marital and family therapists who are members of specified Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) community support and crisis intervention teams to issue emergency certificates authorizing people with a psychiatric disability to be taken to a general hospital for examination, under certain conditions (§ 6); and
- allows certified individuals to practice auricular acupuncture to treat alcohol and drug abuse under the supervision of a physician assistant (PA), advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), or licensed acupuncturist, instead of only a physician as under current law (§ 10);
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