Narcotic Addict Treatment Act
PL 93-281 (S.1115), enacted 05/14/1974

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PUBLIC LAW 93-281-MAY 14, 1974 
[88 STAT. 
"Agency." 
16 u s e 743a. 
Report to 
Congress. 
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department in which the Coast Guard is operating, the Department of 
the Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air 
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"(i) detail from the agency for duty under the Director of the 
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employees as may be spared for such duty; and 
"(ii) consonant with the operational needs of the agency, loan 
equipment of the agency to the Director. 
"(C) The Director of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife 
shall make an annual report at the end of each fiscal year to the Con-
gress concerning the utilization of the provisions of this subparagraph 
and the additional cost, if any, to the Federal Government resulting 
therefrom. Such annual report shall be referred in the Senate to the 
Committee on Commerce and in the House of Eepresentatives to the 
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries." 
Approved May 10, 1974. 
May 14, 1974 
[S.1115] 
Public Law 93-281 
AN ACT 
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to provide for the registration of 
practitioners conducting narcotic treatment programs. 
Narcotic Addict 
Treatment Act of 
1974, 
21 u s e 802 
note. 
Definitions. 
Practitioners, 
narcotic drug 
dispensation, 
annual registra-
tion. 
Qualifications. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That this Act may 
be cited as the "Narcotic Addict Treatment Act of 1974". 
SEC. 2. Section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802) 
is amended by adding the following after paragraph (26) : 
"(27) The term 'maintenance treatment' means the dispensing, for a 
period in excess of twenty-one days, of a narcotic drug in the treatment 
of an individual for dependence upon heroin or other morphine-like 
drugs. 
" (28) The term 'detoxification treatment' means the dispensing, for a 
period not in excess of twenty-one days, of a narcotic drug in decreas-
ing doses to an individual in order to alleviate adverse physiological 
or psychological effects incident to withdrawal from the continuous or 
sustained use of a narcotic drug and as a method of bringing the indi-
vidual to a narcotic drug-free state within such period." 
SEC. 3. Section 303 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 823) 
is amended by adding the following after subsection (f) : 
"(g) Practitioners who dispense narcotic drugs to individuals for 
maintenance treatment or detoxification treatment shall obtain annu-
ally a separate registration for that purpose. The Attorney General 
shall register an applicant to dispense narcotic drugs to individuals for 
maintenance treatment or detoxification treatment (or both) — 
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"(1) if the applicant is a practitioner who is determined by 
the Secretary to be qualified (under standards established by the 
Secretary) to engage in the treatment with respect to which 
registration is sought; 
"(2) if the Attorney General determines that the applicant 
will comply with standards established by the Attorney General 
respecting (A) security of stocks of narcotic drugs for such treat-
ment, and (B) the maintenance of records (in accordance with 
section 307) on such drugs; and 
21 use 827. 
" (3) if the Secretary determines that the applicant will comply 
with standards established by the Secretary (after consultation 
w^ith the Attorney General) respecting the quantities of narcotic 
drugs which may be provided for unsupervised use by individuals 
in such treatment.". 
SEC. 4. (a) Section 304(a) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 
suspension or 
U.S.C. 824(a)) is amended by adding after and below paragraph (3) '•e^°'=^tion. 
the following: "A registration pursuant to section 303(g) to dispense 
21 use 823. 
a narcotic drug for maintenance treatment or detoxification treatment 
may be suspended or revoked by the Attorney General upon a findinij 
that the registrant has failed to complv with any standard referred to 
in section 303(g)." 
(b) Section 304(d) of such Act is amended (1) by inserting after 
the first sentence the following: "A failure to comply with a standard 
referred to in section 303(g) may be treated under this subsection as 
grounds for immediate suspension of a registration granted under 
such section."; and (2) by striking out "Such suspension" and insert-
ing in lieu thereof "A suspension under this subsection". 
SEC. 5. Section 307(c) (1) (A) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 
U.S.C. 827(c) (1) (A)) is amended to read as follows: 
"(1) (A) with respect to any narcotic controlled substance in 
schedule II, III, IV, or V, to the prescribing or administering of 
such substance by a practitioner in the lawful course of his pro-
fessional practice unless such substance was prescribed or admin-
istered in the course of maintenance treatment or detoxification 
treatment of an individual; or". 
Approved May 14, 1974. 
Public Law 93-282 
AN ACT 
j^gy j4^ 1974 
To extend through fiscal year 1974 certain expiring appropriations authorizations 
i^^'^^25] 
in the Public Health Service Act, the Community Mental Health Centers Act, 
and the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Conqress assembled. 
AicohoUsm and 
alcohol abuse 
programs. 
TITLE I—FEDERAL ASSISTANCE FOR STATE AND LOCAL 
Appropriations 
authorizations, 
ALCOHOLISM AND ALCOHOL ABUSE PROGRAMS 
extension.