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Puerto Rico’s mental health and addiction agency. It runs the PAS crisis intervention line, available 24 hours a day, and a network of treatment services for children, young people, adults and homeless people, and licenses the sector’s facilities.
Agency's official siteThe law authorizes selling naloxone without a prescription and shields from arrest anyone who seeks medical help in good faith for an overdose, including themselves.
The law creates a controlled prescription monitoring system, declares it confidential, and recognizes your right to review the information about yourself.
Act 408-2000 prohibits waiting lists longer than 15 working days, requires informed consent with seven elements, and gives 30 days to resolve a complaint.
1-800-981-0023, 988, sign-language video at 787-615-4112, and chat, 24 hours. They also coordinate psychiatric evaluation, an ambulance and treatment.
ASSMCA is not one door. Five divisions and dozens of programmes by age, condition and region: minors, adults, addiction, recovery, homelessness and hospitals.
Act 74-2006 creates the Compulsive Gamblers Help Program at ASSMCA and orders a separate confidential register, with non-therapeutic use prohibited.
Act 79-2008 requires every business selling or serving alcohol to display Fetal Alcohol Syndrome warning signs, with a $50 daily fine.
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