Cooperative Arrangements and Confidentiality

(a)The Attorney General, DPHSS and GPD shall cooperate with Federal and other state agencies in discharging their responsibilities concerning traffic in controlled substances and in suppressing the abuse of controlled substances. To this end, the Attorney General, DPHSS and GPD may:

(1)arrange for the exchange of information among governmental officials concerning the use and abuse of controlled substances;

(2)coordinate and cooperate in training programs concerning controlled substance law enforcement at local and state levels;

(3)cooperate with the Drug Enforcement Administration by establishing a centralized unit to accept, catalog, file and collect statistics, including records of drug dependent persons and other controlled substance law offenders within Guam, and make the information available for Federal, state and local law enforcement purposes, but may not furnish the name or identity of a patient or research subject whose identity could not be obtained under Subsection (c); and

(4)conduct programs of eradication aimed at destroying wild growth or unlawful propagation of plant species from which controlled substances may be extracted.

(b)Results, information and evidence received from the DEA relating to the regulatory functions of this Act, including results of inspections conducted by it, may be relied and acted upon by DPHSS and GPD in the exercise of its regulatory functions under this Act.

(c)A practitioner engaged in medical practice or research is not required or compelled to furnish the name or identity of a patient or research subject to DPHSS, nor may the practitioner be compelled in any CH. 67 GUAM UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT state or local civil, criminal, administrative, legislative or other proceedings to furnish the name or identity of an individual that the practitioner is obligated to keep confidential; provided however, that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent DPHSS from conducting a triplicate prescription program or any other drug monitoring program pursuant to rules adopted by DPHSS.