New Mexico Statutes Chapter 61. Professional and Occupational Licenses § 61-35-2. Definitions

A. “complementary and alternative health care practitioner” means an individual who provides complementary and alternative health care services;

B. “complementary and alternative health care service” means the broad domain of complementary and alternative healing methods and treatments including the following practices and excluding the practice of naturopathic medicine by an individual licensed as a naturopathic doctor pursuant to the Naturopathic Doctors' Practice Act:

C. “controlled substance” means a drug or substance listed in Schedules I through V of the Controlled Substances Act or rules adopted pursuant to that act;

D. “conventional medical diagnosis” means a medical term that is commonly used and understood in conventional western medicine;

E. “dangerous drug” means a drug that is required by an applicable federal or state law or rule to be dispensed pursuant to a prescription; that is restricted to use by licensed practitioners; or that is required by federal law to be labeled with any of the following statements prior to being dispensed or delivered:

F. “department” means the regulation and licensing department;

G. “health care practitioner” means an individual who provides health care services;

H. “health care service” means any service relating to the physical and mental health and wellness of an individual; and

I. “sexual contact” means touching the primary genital area, groin, anus, buttocks or breast of a patient or allowing a patient to touch another's primary genital area, groin, anus, buttocks or breast and includes sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio or anal intercourse, whether or not there is any emission, or introducing any object into the genital or anal openings of another.