OAR 333-333-4450: Client Administration Areas

(1) Client administration areas must be designed to create an appropriate and comfortable setting for experiencing the effects of consuming psilocybin products. Client administration areas must offer clients options for sitting or reclining comfortably during an administration session. Indoor client administration areas must be temperature controlled and adequately lit to allow for safe exit if necessary. (2) Client administration areas must be free of conditions that could pose a risk to clients experiencing the effects of consuming psilocybin products. (3) Indoor client administration areas must be constructed and used in a manner that effectively maintains confidentiality for clients participating in an administration session. (4) During an administration session, only clients and facilitators may access a client administration area unless each client receiving services in that area has given prior written consent for other individuals to be present during their administration session in a form and manner prescribed by the Oregon Health Authority. Licensees must take reasonable steps to prevent access to client administration areas by unauthorized individuals while administration sessions are taking place. The requirements of this section do not apply to service center licensee representatives who are present to deliver psilocybin products to clients to be consumed during an administration session or otherwise assist with operations subject to the requirements of OAR 333-333-5200. (5) A client may leave a client administration area briefly during an administration session for reasons including accessing a restroom, moving to a separate client administration area or retrieving personal belongings. A client who leaves a client administration area under this section, must be accompanied by a facilitator. Service centers and facilitators must make reasonable efforts to ensure that clients do not travel through areas that could present safety hazards for clients experiencing the effects of consuming psilocybin products. Service centers must make reasonable efforts to ensure that clients who leave client administration areas do not interact with vendors, contractors, other clients, or any persons who may be present at the service center. A client who leaves an administration area under this section is not required to be accompanied inside a restroom. A facilitator or licensee representative may not be present with a client inside a restroom except when doing so is necessary to address unforeseen and immediate risks to client health and safety. (6) Service centers must ensure that clients and facilitators are able to exit the client administration areas as needed. Service centers may not lock client administration areas from the outside, nor take any other actions that prevent individuals within the client administration areas from exiting without assistance. (7) Psilocybin products may only be consumed in a client administration area.