2. When a duty to warn and protect arises from the receipt of a privileged communication from a patient in a drug or alcohol abuse program governed by federal law, a licensed practitioner of psychology, psychiatry, medicine, nursing, clinical social work or marriage and family therapy may be required to obtain a court order authorizing disclosure prior to disclosure of information about the patient including the patient’s threat of violence, in accordance with 42 U.S.C. § 290dd-3 and 42 U.S.C. § 290ee-3 and regulations promulgated thereunder.

L.1991, c.270, s.2; amended 2018, c.34, s.2.