N.M. Code R. § 7.32.6.7 – Definitions

A. “Alternative sentencing program” means a program that provides the courts with a sentence alternative to incarceration while providing access to intervention services in an environment which is consistent with the “least restrictive” principle (e.g. non-residential intensive supervision) for the DWI offender.
B. “Board” means the board of county commissioners of a county.
C. “Continuum of care” means linkage of services including prevention, crisis intervention, intervention, treatment and aftercare.
D. “Department” means the New Mexico department of health.
E. “DFA” means the New Mexico department of finance and administration.
F. “DWI” means driving while intoxicated/impaired whether because of alcohol or other drug use.
G. “DWI program” means a community program specifically designed to provide treatment and/or prevention regarding driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
H. “Planning council” means a county DWI planning council that represents a broad spectrum of interests.
I. “Prevention program” means any program which has as its objective the amelioration of conditions known to motivate excessive or abusive use of alcohol and other drugs or to increase the ability of the individual to resist pressures from other people to use or abuse alcohol and other drugs, through such techniques as effective education, values clarification, saying no to peer pressure, recreational alternatives to substance abuse, and wilderness experience.
J. “Screening program” means a program that provides screening or examination by alcoholism treatment professionals of persons charged with or convicted of driving while intoxicated or of other offenses to determine whether the individual is:
(1) physically dependent on alcohol and thus suffering from the disease of alcoholism;
(2) an alcohol abuser who has not developed the alcoholism disease syndrome but has an entrenched pattern of pathological use of alcohol and social or occupational impairment in function from alcohol abuse;
(3) neither an alcoholic nor an alcohol abuser whereby alcoholism treatment is not necessary; and
(4) that provides referral or recommendation of such persons to the most appropriate treatment.
K. “Statewide substance abuse prevention and treatment services plan” means the comprehensive plan for a statewide services network developed by the department that documents the extent of New Mexico’s alcoholism, and alcohol and drug abuse problems. The plan also documents statewide needs for prevention, screening, detoxification, short-term and long-term rehabilitation, outpatient programs and DWI programs. The plan shall be based on the continuum of care concept of a comprehensive substance abuse prevention and treatment system.
[10/8/93, 1/1/97; Recompiled 10/31/01]