DEA Education Requirements

Beginning on June 27th, 2023, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 otherwise known as the Medication Access and Training Expansion (MATE) Act, enacted a new one-time, 8-hour training requirement for all Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)-registered practitioners - including physicians, dentists, chiropractors, podiatrists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants - on treating and managing patients with opioid or other substance use disorders.

Specifically, the law requires that if a prescriber is licensed to dispense controlled substances in schedule II, III, IV, or V, that provider must undergo the eight-hour training requirement. The deadline for satisfying this new training requirement is the date of a practitioner’s next scheduled DEA registration submission—regardless of whether it is an initial registration or a renewal registration—on or after June 27, 2023.

Please note:

Past DATA-Waived training count towards a DEA registrant’s 8-hour training requirement.

Relevant training from an accredited group – taken prior to the enactment of this new training obligation – counts towards the 8-hour training requirement. *

Read the Training Letter issued by the DEA Diversion Control Division