Ark. Code Ann. § 20-64-217 (2020)

1. No person shall obtain or attempt to obtain a narcotic drug, or procure or attempt to procure the administration of a narcotic drug:
   1. by fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, or subterfuge; or
   2. by the forgery or alteration of a prescription or of any order; or
   3. by the concealment of a material fact; or
   4. by the use of a false name or the giving of a false address.

(2) Information communicated to a physician in an effort unlawfully to procure a narcotic drug, or unlawfully to procure the administration of any such drug, shall not be deemed a privileged communication.

(3) No person shall willfully make a false statement in any prescription, order, report, or record, required by this subchapter.

(4) No person shall, for the purpose of obtaining a narcotic drug, falsely assume the title of, or represent himself to be, a manufacturer, wholesaler, apothecary, physician, dentist, veterinarian, or other authorized person.

(5) A person shall not make or utter a false or forged prescription or false or forged order.

(6) No person shall affix any false or forged label to a package or receptacle containing narcotic drugs.

(7) The provisions of this section shall apply to all transactions relating to narcotic drugs under the provisions of § 20-64-208, in the same way as they apply to transactions under all other sections.

History. Acts 1937, No. 344, § 17; Pope's Dig., § 10142; A.S.A. 1947, § 82-1017; Acts 2013, No. 1331, §§ 7, 8.

Amendments. The 2013 amendment deleted “written” following “of any” in (1)(b) and following “or forged” in (5).