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The annual conference of the American Society of Addiction Medicine will be held April 23-26, 2026 in San Diego. For more information, go to https://annualconference.asam.org/

On February 3, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it would release information about how to file complaints and breach reports regarding the confidentiality of substance use disorder (SUD) confidentiality protections under 42 CFR Part 2. OCR also said it would share a model Part 2 Patient Notice, letting patients know their rights under the confidentiality regulation. The OCR will also update its model HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP) with the new required language about substance use disorder treatment records.

On February 3, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it would release information about how to file complaints and breach reports regarding the confidentiality of substance use disorder (SUD) confidentiality protections under 42 CFR Part 2. OCR also said it would share a model Part 2 Patient Notice, letting patients know their rights under the confidentiality regulation. The OCR will also update its model HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP) with the new required language about substance use disorder treatment records.

The annual conference of the American Society of Addiction Medicine will be held April 23-26, 2026 in San Diego. For more information, go to https://annualconference.asam.org/

If your goal is to tell those who make policy how angry you are with their policy, scream from the mountaintops — or post it on social media! If your goal is to make an impact, to change their thinking — climb down from the mountaintop, write the post, read it and then delete it, and then engage them and others, especially those who make you angry. If you cannot change their thinking, focus your energy on changing those who are doing the thinking!

First, the “Great American Recovery Initiative,” an Executive Order issued by President Trump on January 29, promised to bring together all of the federal agencies to help the addiction crisis. Then on February 2, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced the dollars behind this Executive Order: $100 million to focus on “treatment that emphasizes recovery and self-sufficiency.”

A recent study has focused on the need for standardized screening for substance use in pediatric emergency departments The study, “Substance Use Screening in Pediatric Emergency Departments for Youth in Behavioral Crisis,” is by Darja Beinenson and colleagues and published in JAMA Pediatrics January 26.

At the February 3 Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions meeting, Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-New Hampshire) asked witness Jayanta Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), whether he would commit funding to increase medications for opioid use disorder. She stressed that of her constituents who need such treatment, only one in five gets it. He responded “yes,” that he would help. The hearing was titled “Modernizing the National Institutes of Health: Faster Discoveries, More Cures.”

A recent study has focused on the need for standardized screening for substance use in pediatric emergency departments The study, “Substance Use Screening in Pediatric Emergency Departments for Youth in Behavioral Crisis,” is by Darja Beinenson and colleagues and published in JAMA Pediatrics January 26.

If your goal is to tell those who make policy how angry you are with their policy, scream from the mountaintops — or post it on social media! If your goal is to make an impact, to change their thinking — climb down from the mountaintop, write the post, read it and then delete it, and then engage them and others, especially those who make you angry. If you cannot change their thinking, focus your energy on changing those who are doing the thinking!