Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:971.2 – Unlawfully prescribing, distributing, dispensing, or assisting in illegally obtaining controlled dangerous substances
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:971.2
- Controlled dangerous substance: means any substance defined, enumerated, or included in federal or state statute or regulations, Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
- Dispense: means to deliver a controlled dangerous substance to the ultimate user or human research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for such delivery. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
- Drug: means :
(a) Articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
- Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Person: includes any institution whether public or private, hospitals or clinics operated by the state or any of its political subdivisions, and any corporation, association, partnership, or one or more individuals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
- Practitioner: means a physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator, pharmacy, hospital, or other person licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to, or administer a controlled dangerous substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
- Prescription: means a written request for a drug or therapeutic aid issued by a licensed physician, dentist, veterinarian, osteopath, or podiatrist for a legitimate medical purpose, for the purpose of correcting a physical, mental, or bodily ailment, and acting in good faith in the usual course of his professional practice. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
A. This Section shall be known as and may be cited as the “Pain Management Clinic Drug Abuse and Overdose Prevention Act”.
B. It shall be unlawful for a physician, other licensed health care practitioner as defined in La. Rev. Stat. 40:961(31), or any other person to knowingly or intentionally commit any of the following acts:
(1) Assist a patient or any other person in obtaining a controlled dangerous substance through misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, or subterfuge.
(2) Write a prescription for a controlled dangerous substance for a fictitious person.
(3) Distribute or dispense a controlled dangerous substance to a fictitious person.
(4) Operate any type of business or establishment where the primary purpose of the business or establishment is the sale, exchange, barter, or trade of a controlled dangerous substance for anything of value through misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, or subterfuge.
C. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than five years, and in addition may be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than fifty thousand dollars.
Acts 2005, No. 25, §1; Acts 2006, No. 51, §1.