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Show WEEKLY REFLEX-DAV- NEWS JOURNAL, DECEMBER IS 16,1 976 k Proposed Intoxication Lara: Probably EM Be A Panacea i Judge Cornell Jensen, learfield City Judge and cnairman of the Davis County Mental Health Board, doesnt tnink proposed legislation to Handle public intoxication is a panacea that will cure all alcohol involved problems. rtf t THE UNIFORM Alcoholism and Intoxification Act, which Proposes funding of $1.8 million to assess and treat alco- hol-users L jailed for in- will be introduced into the 1977 Utah Legislature. Judge Jensen fears that n eliminating diversionary programs now present in the court system, the court door will become a spinning door, not a revolving door. toxication, Judge Jensen says that current diversionary procedures call for those arrested for intoxication to appear before a judge. If the alcohol involved person pleads guilty, three options are open to the judge. He can impose sentence, call for a report from a probation officer, or place the defendant in a live-ialcohol center fortreatment. t I i Vi SP & &' , n JUDGE Jensen says currently these diversionary procedures allow the judge to order treatment. He fears the proposed legislation, which could decriminalize public intoxication, would allow persons to be released without treatment. ol-involved A substantial portion will for punishment by a jail sentence or a fine, is doing little to help the problem. DAVIS County Commissioner Stan Smoot, currently responsible for the Davis County Health Department, also voiced his reservations on the passage of the bill. He said, It is not in the best interest of the community or the alcoholic to decriminalize illegal acts committed by the THE EMERGENCY care areas would offer 24 hours medical care and supervision until drunks are no longer incapacitated by the effects of alcohol. Inpatient care would call for supervised care, under a physicians direction, in a hospital or another equipped medical setting. alcoholic. An alcoholic, as any other citizen must be held accountable for any criminal act that The alcohol bill calls for two residential support areas where the alcohol user receives full or partial he has committed, CommiAlssioner Smoot said. coholism is a disease for which a person should have the for opportunity appropriate treatment and must not be seen as justification from criminal behavior. residential services that provide counseling and vocational serrehabilitation vices. This type of facility will be available in Davis County when the Davis County Alcoholism and Recovery Center is completed in Lay-to- IF PASSED, the alcohol bill would call for a comprehen- n. , sive treatment system where users woDId, either voluntarily or involuntarily, be screened. The central receiving and screening clinic would channel persons picked up for intoxication into the proper area where they could be held up to 24 hours for screening. Other inpatient services, provided by the proposed act would be detoxification, emergency care, inpatient care, and residential care. The social detoxification unit alcohol would provide vised care in a ur THE BILL would provide for an care service where tne alcohol involved person would receive treatment on a scheduled and basis, while living at home. Estimates show that Davis County has 48 public intoxicant clients with 2,403 high risk alcohol users as compared to Salt Lake County with 550 public intoxicants and 11,651. Weber and Morgan counties are estimated to have 226 public intoxicants and 3,226 high risk alcohol super- not follow through on treatment unless the treatment is ordered by the judge, he said. Currently a person found guilty of public intoxication is jailed or fined. The sentence can be suspended users. If passed, the bill j would call for Davis County to : pay $68,291 as the county : share of setting up the . setting. The staff would be trained to take care of the needs of heavily intoxicated persons. comprehensive alcohol care ; : services. JUDGE Jensen admits that the current system ' for dealing with intoxication is in I need of improvement But he : worries that the alcohol user ; may not voluntarily accept treatment. He says that he i understands some force : would be available to the ; judge under the proposed bill. The bill specifies the judge can bring committment preceding and ask for a court order, forcing the defendant to accept treatment if he does not do so voluntarily. But this process would be cum- bersome and would only be resorted to dras tic cases, he said. ! ; : I i I ; BUT JUDGE Jensen concluded, since the current : system is in need of improvement, if this is what the lawmakers propose, I have no opposition to it. Judge Jensen said t I : the proposed bill would provide ! funds by increasing the taxes on alcoholic beverages. ; Cost for screening each client per day have been es- timated at $53.05. Other cost estimates are social : ' de- - toxification $40.90, emergency i $77.69, inpatient care care -- residential care $12.22, I and outpatient care $8.68. rk i $75.13, if the defendant is willing to accept treatment for alcoholism. The proposed Alcohol and Detoxification Act calls for treatment rather than the incarceration of alcoholics, said Robert Christiansen, State Division of Alcohol and Vandals have caused $1600 in damage to the signs at the New Davis North Medical Center. Officials believe that it occurred in recent successive weekends. Its unfortunate because ultimately this type of expense is passed on to patients. SIGN DAMAGE Drugs. :::::s:::::;::::ra i THIS AGENCY, along with the State Board of Alcoholism and Drugs, the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce and the Utah PTA support the bill. 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