An Act relative to the prescription monitoring program

This bill modifies Massachusetts' Prescription Monitoring Program to improve coordination for patients in opioid treatment. It requires treatment facilities to provide patients with a consent form explaining they can choose to share their opioid maintenance treatment information through the monitoring system (which is encouraged but not mandatory). If consent is given, healthcare providers can access this information before prescribing non-maintenance opioids, helping them make more informed decisions. The bill directly affects opioid treatment programs, patients in those programs, and prescribers of controlled substances. It does not change privacy rules but adds a consent process for sharing treatment data within existing legal boundaries.