Comment on Part 2 NPRM: Concerns from addiction psychiatrist

Abstract

At the end of last month, when the comment period closed for the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Patient Records (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adaw.33628), ADAW started obtaining some of the comments that were filed. We are printing some of them here, as the last time there was a big NPRM on this rule, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) was highly selective in its summary of the comments, leaving out some of the most poignant and articulate concerns and focusing on ones that supported its proposal to weaken the rule.