Abstract
ADAW readers have heard, even if nobody else has, that the federal Department of Health and Human Services and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration omitted one important piece from their 42 CFR Part 2 final rule. Congress, in the 2020 CARES Act, required that the agencies make it easier to share information about patients' treatment for substance use disorders. The final rule does that — one initial consent, and your treatment can be shared freely with anyone except law enforcement, forever, without your repeated consent or even your knowledge. In the same law, Congress also required the agencies to strengthen anti‐discrimination provisions in Part 2. The agencies did not do that. We have asked both to respond to our question about this omission every week for a month and will continue to do so until we get an answer. For more information, go to https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adaw.34040.
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