AHC Substance Use Disorder Disclosure

AHC and its clinicians, including its licensed addiction counselors (LACs), are only employed by AHC to provide crisis and other mental health services, and do not provide, and do not hold themselves as providing diagnosis or treatment for substance use disorders. AHC is not publicly identified as a place where only substance use disorder diagnosis, treatment or referral for treatment are provided; nor are AHC’s clinicians publicly identified as only providing substance use disorder diagnosis, treatment or referral for treatment nor are any of AHC’s clinicians’ primary function at AHC the provision of substance use disorder diagnosis, treatment or referral for treatment. On occasion, in cases where an AHC clinician, in the course of providing crisis or other mental health services, determines that an individual being served for a crisis or other mental health condition may have a co-occuring substance use disorder, the AHC clinician may (i) recommend that the individual follow up with a substance use disorder treatment program, (ii) provide the individual with information about substance use disorder treatment programs that the individual can elect to follow up with on their own, or (iii) refer the individual to a substance use disorder treatment program and arrange for the coordination of follow-up care with the substance use disorder treatment program. However, in such circumstances, it is not possible to infer that an individual referred by AHC or an AHC clinician (including LACs) has or likely has a substance use disorder or is receiving treatment or referral for a substance use disorder.