DEA MATE EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

The Medication Access and Training Expansion (MATE) Act mandates that ALL providers holding a DEA license complete mandatory education.  Please review the letter each licensee should have received via email:  DEA MATE Letter

MATE Requirements

• • 8 hours of education in the management and treatment of patients with opioids and other substance use disorders
  • One-time only mandate
  • Prior education can be counted towards the 8 hours
  • Applies to ALL* providers applying for a NEW license, or due to RENEW on or after 06.27.2023
  • Licensees must attest to having completed this education when applying or renewing, and provide documentation if audited

*Exempt Providers

• • New Graduates (less than 5 years) from a medical, advanced practice nursing, or physician assistant school in the United States with at least 8 hours of opioid or other substance use disorder curriculum in their training program
  • Anyone holding an X-waiver (DATA 2000 waiver) completed IN CONJUNCTION with the required learning for that waiver

Check Your MATE Compliance

Click HERE or scroll to the bottom of the page for instructions on how to check your current MATE hours

Take a Class

**Classes and resources updated regularly, last update 06.19.2025

Live Learning

• • HHC Opioid Stewardship Council, 2nd Tuesday quarterly, 7am, (February, May, August, November), ** HHC Staff Only
  • Challenges in Treating People with Substances Use Disorders (Case Discussion and Didactic Education), 1st and 3rd Thursdays, 11a-12p, ** HHC Staff Only
  • Substance Use Lunch & Learn: Guidelines on the Management of the Perioperative Patient on Cannabis or Cannabinoids, POSTPONED, Date TBD

On Demand Learning   These credits are automatically added to your CloudCME transcript

• • Fentanyl Facts & Fears:  What Every Health Professional Needs To Know (1.25 hours)
  • Highlighting the Impact of Embedding Persons with Lived Experience Within Our Medical Team (1.00 hour)
  • Safe Prescribing of Opioids (1.00 hour)
  • Substance Use Disorder Case Discussions: Cannabis Use, Trends, and Impacts of Legislation (.75 hour)
  • Trends in Alcohol Use and Abuse (1.25 hours)
  • What Hurts the Most: An Overview of Pain Management Principles (1.00 hour)
  • Update on ED-Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder (1.00 hour)

External Learning Resources  You must add these courses to your transcript under MyCME > Profile >  External Credits

• • SCOPE of Pain - online education through Boston University (no cost)
  • NEJM+ Pain Management and Opioids (up to 10 credits, no cost)
  • Providers Clinical Support System - online education
    • Co-occurring Opioid and Stimulant Use Disorders: Treatment and Management Approaches (1.00 hour), presented by Jonathan Craig Allen, MD, FASAM, and Marc Fishman, MD 
  • AMA EdHub Courses, online education, 58+ hours of free and fee-based courses 

Other Resources

• Navigating the New DEA 8-Hour Training Requirement for SUDS: What Prescribers Need to Know, presented by the American Academy for Addiction Psychiatry
• DEA Diversion Control Division
• AMA MATE Information Page