Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act 2.0 of 2026

This bill would let certain qualified doctors register with the federal government to prescribe methadone for opioid use disorder that patients pick up at a regular pharmacy, instead of only at an opioid treatment program. Eligible prescribers would include board-certified addiction medicine physicians and addiction psychiatrists, plus others the Secretary of Health and Human Services finds qualified. Prescriptions would have to be electronic, in liquid or dispersible tablet form, and follow federal and state quantity limits; treatment could be provided through telemedicine. A state could ask the Attorney General to stop and revoke these registrations in that state, and the Drug Enforcement Administration would report to Congress each year on how the program is used.

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Sponsors

• Edward J. Markey Democrat sponsor
• 8 cosponsors