Leading Alabama’s efforts to enhance the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities impacted by mental illness, developmental disabilities, substance use, the Alabama Department of Mental Health (ADMH) is seeking proposals for the use of the ADMH Opioid Settlement Grant Program. Funds allocated for The ADMH Opioid Settlement Grant Program are appropriated through Act 2023-384. The purpose of this grant program is to provide residential withdrawal management, formally known as detoxification services. In accordance with the Alabama Administrative Code (580-9-44-.28, Level 3.7-WM is an organized service delivered by medical and nursing professionals, which provides 24-hour medically supervised evaluation and withdrawal management in a permanent facility with residential beds for those individuals with a diagnosed opioid use disorder, alcohol use disorder or sedative, hypnotic, or anxiolytic use disorder. Services are delivered under a defined set of physician-approved policies and physicianmonitored procedures or clinical protocols. This level provides care to recipients whose withdrawal signs and symptoms are sufficiently severe to require 24-hour inpatient care with observation, monitoring and treatment being available.
