Veterinarians exempt from new DEA training requirement

A brand new opioid-related coaching requirement for DEA-registered practitioners doesn’t apply to veterinarians, regardless of showing as a required checkbox on the DEA’s on-line registration software, in accordance with U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officers. 

Veterinarians who’re registering or renewing their DEA registration ought to merely test the field on the DEA software, as a way to proceed on within the registration course of, the DEA has suggested the AVMA.

The requirement—to finish a one-time, eight-hour coaching on treating and managing sufferers with opioid or different substance use problems—took impact June 27 and applies to all DEA-registered prescribers besides veterinarians. Veterinarians have been particularly exempted within the federal legislation that created the requirement, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023.

Nonetheless, as a result of veterinarians and different medical professionals use the identical DEA registration type, veterinarians registering or renewing their registration should test a field on the appliance that affirms they’ve “learn and understood” the details about the coaching requirement, as proven right here:

If in case you have questions, electronic mail the grdavma [dot] org (AVMA’s governmental relations staff).