(a) No person shall obtain or attempt to obtain a controlled substance or procure or attempt to procure the administration of a controlled substance:
- (1) By fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, or subterfuge;
- (2) By the forgery or alteration of a prescription or of any written order;
- (3) By the concealment of material fact; or
- (4) By the use of a false name or the giving of a false address.
- (b) Information communicated to a physician in an unlawful effort to procure the administration of a controlled substance shall not be deemed a privileged communication.
- (c) No person shall willfully make a false statement in any prescription, order, report, or record, required by this chapter.
- (d) No person shall, for the purpose of obtaining a controlled substance, falsely assume the title of, or represent himself or herself to be, a manufacturer, wholesaler, practitioner, or other authorized person.
- (e) No person shall make or utter any false or forged prescription or false or forged written order for controlled substances.
- (f) No person shall affix any false or forged label to a package or receptacle containing controlled substances.
- (g) Any person who violates this section is guilty of a crime and upon conviction may be imprisoned for not more than five (5) years, and fined not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both.
History of Section.
P.L. 1974, ch. 183, § 2; P.L. 1985, ch. 154, § 1.