Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act 2.0 of 2026

This bill would let certain doctors register with the federal government to prescribe methadone for opioid use disorder that patients pick up at a regular pharmacy, instead of only through an opioid treatment program. Eligible prescribers would be board-certified addiction medicine physicians or addiction psychiatrists, or others the Secretary of Health and Human Services finds qualified. Prescriptions would have to be electronic and for liquid or dispersible tablet forms, and patients would have to give informed consent, including about differences in privacy protections. A state could ask the Attorney General to stop or revoke these registrations in that state, and the Drug Enforcement Administration would report to Congress each year on how the program is used. The changes would take effect 180 days after the bill becomes law.

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Sponsors

• Donald Norcross Democrat sponsor
• 5 cosponsors