Title: Enhancing Access to Addiction Treatment Act of 2018
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Enhancing Access to Addiction Treatment Act of 2018
This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to expand the types of training that satisfy the training requirement to be a qualifying physician who may administer, dispense, or prescribe narcotic drugs for maintenance or detoxification treatment in an office-based opioid treatment program.
Specifically, a physician who recently graduated from medical school (either allopathic or osteopathic) and successfully completed a comprehensive curriculum or residency that included training on treating and managing opiate-dependent patients satisfies the training requirement to be a qualifying physician.
The Department of Health and Human Services must establish a grant program to support the development of such curricula by medical schools and teaching hospitals.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2711 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2711

  To amend section 303 of the Controlled Substances Act to facilitate 
    waivers of the separate registration requirement for physicians 
 dispensing narcotic drugs to individuals for maintenance treatment or 
                       detoxification treatment.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 19, 2018

Ms. Hassan (for herself and Mr. Portman) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend section 303 of the Controlled Substances Act to facilitate 
    waivers of the separate registration requirement for physicians 
 dispensing narcotic drugs to individuals for maintenance treatment or 
                       detoxification treatment.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Enhancing Access to Addiction 
Treatment Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. WAIVERS FOR MAINTENANCE OR DETOXIFICATION TREATMENT.

    (a) Waiver.--Section 303(g)(2)(G)(ii) of the Controlled Substances 
Act (21 U.S.C. 823(g)(2)(G)(ii)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
                    ``(VIII) The physician graduated from an accredited 
                school of allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine 
                in the United States during the 5-year period ending on 
                the date on which the physician submits to the 
                Secretary a written notification under subparagraph (B) 
                and successfully completed a comprehensive allopathic 
                or osteopathic medicine curriculum or accredited 
                medical residency that--
                            ``(aa) included not less than 24 hours of 
                        training on treating and managing opiate-
                        dependent patients; and
                            ``(bb) included, at a minimum--
                                    ``(AA) the training described in 
                                items (aa) through (gg) of subclause 
                                (IV); and
                                    ``(BB) training with respect to any 
                                other best practice the Secretary 
                                determines should be included in the 
                                curriculum, which may include training 
                                on pain management, including 
                                assessment and appropriate use of 
                                opioid and non-opioid alternatives.''.
    (b) Grants.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
        shall establish a grant program under which the Secretary may 
        make grants to accredited schools of allopathic medicine or 
        osteopathic medicine and teaching hospitals located in the 
        United States to support the development of curricula that meet 
        the requirements under subclause (VIII) of section 
        303(g)(2)(G)(ii) of the Controlled Substances Act, as added by 
        subsection (a).
            (2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are authorized 
        to be appropriated for grants under paragraph (1), $4,000,000 
        for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023.
    (c) Technical Amendment.--Section 102(24) of the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802(24)) is amended by striking ``Health, 
Education, and Welfare'' and inserting ``Health and Human Services''.
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