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Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2023 - 2024 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: December 7, 2022 09:57 AM
From: Senator Christine M. Tartaglione
To: All Senate members
Subject: Drug & Alcohol Placement Criteria for Addiction Treatment
 
In the near future, I will be re-introducing legislation requiring the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs to develop or adapt state-specific criteria governing placement of people seeking treatment in licensed addiction treatment programs. This legislation was formerly SB 170 of the 2021-22 session. Members who co-sponsored this legislation previously include Senators Argall, Street, J. Ward, Brewster, Costa, Kane, and Dillon.

My legislation will address the issues with the Department’s transition away from the time-tested, state-specific criteria, Pennsylvania Client Placement Criteria (PCPC), to a national tool, the American Society of Addiction Medicine Criteria (ASAM). ASAM is not tailored to Pennsylvania’s specific needs and is not attuned to the addiction treatment needs of vulnerable populations including pregnant addicted women, addicted women with dependent children, veterans, homeless individuals with addiction and low-level drug offenders sent to treatment as part of sentencing by the drug courts.

The changes in placement criteria are counter-productive and are harmful to our prevention and treatment system that is working hard to handle the demands of Pennsylvania’s families caught in the middle of our state’s worst drug epidemic.

Please join me in co-sponsoring this important bill.
 




Memo Updated: December 7, 2022 09:58 AM