The Upper Shore Community Mental Health
Center, which opened in 1982, is a multipurpose
mental health hospital. The Center maintains 72
beds and provides psychiatric services for all qual-
ified persons, 16 years of age and older, from Car-
oline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, and Talbot
counties. The Center also provides a 15-bed juve-
nile detention center and a 20-bed intermediate
care unit for alcoholics over the age of 18 (Code
Health—General Article, sec. 10-406).

Citizens Advisory Board for Upper Shore
Community Mental Health Center

See Citizens Advisory Board for Eastern Shore
Hospital Center and Upper Shore Community
Mental Health Center

TAWES-BLAND BRYANT NURSING
HOME

Haywood R. Ammons, Administrator

P.O. Box 3235
Catonsville 21228 Telephone: 455-7603

Located on the grounds of Spring Grove Hospi-
tal Center, the Tawes-Bland Bryant Nursing
Home opened in 1974. It provides nursing home
care to geriatric patients who have been in-pa-
tients of State hospitals and cannot be placed in
private facilities. Formerly under the Office of
Chronic and Rehabilitation Facilities, the Home
has been administered by the Mental Hygiene Ad-
ministration since July 1986.

ADDICTIONS ADMINISTRATION

Vacancy, Director

201 W. Preston St.
Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 225-6910
225-6925

By Departmental reorganization in 1987, the
Drug Abuse Administration and the Alcoholism
Control Administration were merged to form the
Addictions Administration.

In the area of drug abuse control, the Addic-
tions Administration engages in a planning proc-
ess that identifies needs, policies, and strategies
aimed at the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
of drug abuse in the State. The Administration
funds projects based on need and encourages ini-
tiatives toward unique programming to prevent
drug abuse or treat chemical substance abusers.
This grant-in-aid program emphasizes many kinds

of public or private nonprofit projects. The Ad-
ministration coordinates its efforts with those of
local health departments and health systems agen-
cies to meet local needs. The Administration also
maintains treatment and rehabilitation facilities in
local communities. The Administration monitors
all drug abuse treatment programs in the State
and certifies these programs annually. No drug
abuse treatment or prevention program, either
public or private, can operate within Maryland
without certification by the Administration.

The Administration cooperates with the De-
partment's Office of Education and Training for
Addiction Services to assure competent program
personnel and adequate information dissemina-
tion. Annually, the Administration publishes a
comprehensive plan for drug abuse treatment and
prevention (Code Health—General Article, Title
9).

A resource directory of all drug abuse programs
in Maryland is available free upon request from
the Administration.

In the area of alcoholism control, the Addic-
tions Administration serves as a clearinghouse for
information relating to alcoholism. It develops,
encourages, and fosters statewide, regional, and
local plans and programs in the field of alcohol-
ism. For local governments, the Administration
provides technical assistance and consultation on
alcoholism prevention and treatment and rehabili-
tation of alcoholics.

To prevent and treat alcoholism, the Adminis-
tration also seeks assistance from public and vol-
untary health, education, welfare, and rehabilita-
tion agencies. The Administration encourages
alcoholism rehabilitation programs in businesses
and industries in the State (Code
Health—General Article, Title 8).

The Administration publishes the Maryland Al-
coholism Resource Directory which lists alcohol-
ism treatment programs in Maryland. The direc-
tory is available free upon request.

The Administration is served by the State Advi-
sory Council on Drug Abuse and the State Advi-
sory Council on Alcoholism Control.

State Advisory Council on Drug Abuse

Chairperson: Laurie Charles Butler, 1988

Virginia Campbell Tysinger, 1987; Nina M.
Mezebish, 1988; Sherman Yen, Ph.D., 1988;