---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 290bb–2a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "290bb–2a"
heading: "Medical treatment of narcotics addiction; report to Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/290bb-2a"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III–A — Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration"
  - "Part B — Centers and Programs"
  - "Subpart 1 — center for substance abuse treatment"
---

# §290bb–2a. Medical treatment of narcotics addiction; report to Congress


The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of Health and Human [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), after consultation with the Attorney General and with national organizations representative of persons with knowledge and experience in the [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) of [narcotic](/usc/42/201.md?p=j) [addicts](/usc/42/201.md?p=k), shall determine the appropriate methods of professional practice in the medical [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) of the [narcotic](/usc/42/201.md?p=j) addiction of various classes of [narcotic](/usc/42/201.md?p=j) [addicts](/usc/42/201.md?p=k), and shall report thereon from time to time to the Congress.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–513, title I, § 4, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1241; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

Section was formerly classified to section 257a of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted in text for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.