Confidentiality of Patient Records for Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Technical Assistance Publication (TAP) Series 13

The regulations that protect the identities of persons in alcohol or drug abuse treatment have their
genesis in two statutes of the early 1970's: the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Act of 1970 and the Drug Abuse Prevention,
Treatment and Rehabilitation Act of 1972. These statutes were implemented by regulations
issued by the then Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) in 1975. Revised in
1987 by one of HEW's successors, the Department of Health and Human Services, the
regulations are set out at title 42, part 2, of the Code of Federal Regulations . . .