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That federal law would make such a database illegal.
Well, technically that's not correct. Nothing in HIPAA says that law enforcement cannot maintain a database of people who go to drug rehab. What HIPAA does is restrict covered entities from making disclosures of personal health information (PHI) to others without consent except in certain limited circumstances. What HIPAA does is make it harder for law enforcement to construct the database by creating a barrier to getting the information from health providers, but does not make having the database itself illegal.