Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.
Section 20-64-217 - Fraud or deceit(1) No person shall obtain or attempt to obtain a narcotic drug, or procure or attempt to procure the administration of a narcotic drug: (a) by fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, or subterfuge; or(b) by the forgery or alteration of a prescription or of any order; or(c) by the concealment of a material fact; or(d) 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.Amended by Act 2013, No. 1331,§ 8, eff. 8/16/2013.Amended by Act 2013, No. 1331,§ 7, eff. 8/16/2013.Acts 1937, No. 344, § 17; Pope's Dig., § 10142; A.S.A. 1947, § 82-1017.