Establishes an intensive addiction recovery and mental health integrated services pilot program to support two three-year demonstration programs that provide intensive addiction and mental health integrated services to individuals with significant addiction and mental health issues who have had multiple and frequent treatment episodes.
Creates a certified recovery residences task force to establish best practice guidelines for certified recovery living residences that illustrate the most appropriate and effective environment for persons recovering from a chemical dependency.
Requires the office of addiction services and supports to provide contingency management services, including financial incentives, for persons with addiction disorders who abstain from substance abuse and comply with treatment objectives; provides medical assistance coverage for such services.
Requires the office of addiction services and supports to assure that persons who suffer from a substance use disorder have the right to seek and receive addiction services, care, treatment and rehabilitation services based on the individual's gender identity, gender expression and/or sexual orientation.
Requires facilities that provide treatment for substance use disorders to have at least one practitioner qualified to administer or prescribe buprenorphine to individuals in their care with substance use disorders related to opioids.
Requires that the siting, construction and establishment of methadone program facilities in cities with a population of one million or more be dispersed in the boroughs of such cities in proportion to the population of each such borough.