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California Code, Health and Safety Code - HSC § 11831.9

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The Legislature recognizes that consumers with substance use disorders have disabling conditions, and that these consumers and their families are vulnerable and at risk of being easily victimized by fraudulent marketing practices that adversely impact the delivery of health care. To protect the health, safety, and welfare of this vulnerable population, an operator of a licensed alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, as defined in Section 11834.02, or a certified alcohol or other drug program, shall not do any of the following:

(1) Make a false or misleading statement or provide false or misleading information about the entity's products, goods, services, or geographical locations in its marketing, advertising materials, or media, or on its internet website or on a third-party internet website.

(2) Make a false or misleading statement or provide false or misleading information about medical treatments or medical services offered in its marketing, advertising materials, or media, or on its internet website, on a third-party internet website, or in its social media presence.

(3) Include on its internet website a picture, description, staff information, or the location of an entity, along with false contact information that surreptitiously directs the reader to a business that does not have a contract with the entity.

(4) Include on its internet website false information or an electronic link that provides false information or surreptitiously directs the reader to another internet website.

(b) The department may investigate an allegation of a violation of this section and, upon finding a violation of this section, or any regulation adopted to enforce this section, may impose one or more of the sanctions described in Section 11831.7 in accordance with regulations adopted pursuant to that section.

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