OAR 309-102-0110
Definitions
(1)
“Contraband” means any controlled substance, drug paraphernalia, unauthorized currency or any other article which by statute, rule, order or the state institution’s policies, is prohibited from being in a patient’s possession, and the use of which could endanger the safety or security of the institution.(2)
“Controlled Substance” means a drug or it’s immediate precursor classified under the federal Controlled Substances Act and as modified under ORS 475.035 (Authority to control schedule).(3)
“Division” means the Addictions and Mental Health Division of the Oregon Health Authority.(4)
“Drug Paraphernalia” means all equipment, products and materials of any kind which are marketed for use or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance in violation of ORS 475.840 to 475.980 (Affirmative defense to ORS 475.969, 475.971, 475.975 (1) and 475.976 (1)) ORS 475.525 (Sale of drug paraphernalia prohibited)(2).(5)
“Electronic Mail” means digital messages transmitted electronically.(6)
“Journalist Mail” means any mail sent to news media organizations such as, but not limited to newspapers, magazines and television station news departments.(7)
“Legal Mail” means any mail received from or addressed to, any attorney, court, tribal official, elected official, disability rights organizations or advocacy group that is part of the system outlined in ORS 192.517 (Access to records of individual with disability or individual with mental illness).(8)
“Limited Item” means any food, non-prescribed medicine, vitamins, supplements or other article which is allowed for patient use, but which must be held or kept in a specific area for reasons of maintaining public health standards to ensure proper dosage or to limit it’s ingestion, viewing or other use to the owner of the item.(9)
“Mail” means any letter, post card, periodical or any other type of envelope or package, except for legal mail and journalist mail.(10)
“Patient” means a person who is residing in a state institution.(11)
“Prohibited Item” means:(a)
Alcohol, controlled substances or drug paraphernalia;(b)
Any item that reasonably could be used as or turned into a weapon or instrument of escape;(c)
Any item the possession of which is considered detrimental to the treatment of a specific patient and which is recorded as prohibited with the rationale in the patient’s chart by the treating physician; or(d)
Any item the possession of which is disallowed to a clearly defined portion of the patient population or to the entire patient population pursuant to the institution’s policies.(12)
“Reasonable Cause” means a person has knowledge or notice of facts or circumstances which would lead a person of ordinary care and prudence to have a strong suspicion that a specific piece of mail contains a prohibited or limited item.(13)
“Safety” means the institution and all patients and others persons within and around it are free from injury, threats, harassment, identity theft or other dangers.(14)
“Security” means prevention of any patient’s potential escape from a state institution or the prevention of damage to institutional or personal property within the grounds of the state institution.(15)
“State Institution” means all Oregon State Hospital campuses including the Blue Mountain Recovery Center.(16)
“Superintendent” means the executive head of any state institution or that person’s designee.(17)
“Treatment Care Plan” means an individualized and comprehensive written plan of therapeutic interventions designed, in collaboration between the patient and his or her treatment team, to facilitate rehabilitation of psychiatric symptoms and eventual independence.
Source:
Rule 309-102-0110 — Definitions, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=309-102-0110.