Section 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.