Oregon Revised Statutes Executive Branch; Organization § 182.515

(a) The Department of Corrections;

(b) The Oregon Youth Authority;

(c) The Youth Development Division; and

(d) That part of the Oregon Health Authority that deals with mental health and addiction issues.

(a) Incorporates significant and relevant practices based on scientifically based research; and

(b) Is cost-effective.

(4)(a) “Program” means a treatment or intervention program or service that is intended to:

(b) “Program” does not include:

(a) Employing systematic, empirical methods that draw on observation or experiment;

(b) Involving rigorous data analyses that are adequate to test the stated hypotheses and justify the general conclusions drawn;

(c) Relying on measurements or observational methods that provide reliable and valid data across evaluators and observers, across multiple measurements and observations and across studies by the same or different investigators; and

(d) Utilizing randomized controlled trials when possible and appropriate.