§ 3372. Practitioner patient reporting. It shall be the duty of every
attending practitioner and every consulting practitioner to report
promptly to the commissioner, or his duly designated agent, the name
and, if possible, the address of, and such other data as may be required
by the commissioner with respect to, any person under treatment if he
finds that such person is an addict or a habitual user of any narcotic
drug. Such report shall be kept confidential and may be utilized only
for statistical, epidemiological or research purposes, except that those
reports which originate in the course of a criminal proceeding other
than under section 81.25 of the mental hygiene law shall be subject only
to the confidentiality requirements of section thirty-three hundred
seventy-one of this article.