Medication Policy: Medication Handling

Your policies must also be clear that staff, volunteers and leaders must never handle resident medication. Staff may observe as residents handle their own medication, but they may not do it for them. This means recovery housing staff should not be going to pick up medication from the pharmacy or deliver medications to residents.

It is best practice to reinforce this in the staff code of conduct to ensure that staff understands.

If residents are receiving some sort of medication support at a treatment center, be sure to have appropriate releases of information with the treatment center, and communicate with the treatment team about any support that is needed at the recovery home. Remember, recovery housing is a housing setting, and it must be separate from treatment services.

Course Syllabus

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Creating a Medication Policy for Recovery Housing

	1. Medication Policy: Journal Exercise
	2. Medication Policy: Residents and Their Health Care
	3. Medication Policy: Medication-Assisted Treatment
	4. Medication Policy: NARR Standards
	5. Medication Policy: Key Components
	6. Medication Policy: Medication Storage
	7. Medication Policy: "Locked" Storage
	8. Medication Policy: Medication Tracking
	9. Medication Policy: Missing Medications
	10. Medication Policy: Medication Handling
	11. Medication Policy: OTC Drugs, Supplements and Medical Cannabis
	12. Medication Policy: Fair Housing and Medication Policies
	13. Medication Policy Assessment
	14. Medication Policy: NEXT STEPS