§ 21-28-4.05 - Prohibited acts E – False representations to obtain controlled substances. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 21-28-4.05

   § 21-28-4.05  Prohibited acts E –False representations to obtain controlled substances. – (a) No person shall obtain or attempt to obtain a controlled substance orprocure 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 anywritten order;

   (3) By the concealment of material fact; or

   (4) By the use of a false name or the giving of a falseaddress.

   (b) Information communicated to a physician in an unlawfuleffort to procure the administration of a controlled substance shall not bedeemed a privileged communication.

   (c) No person shall willfully make a false statement in anyprescription, order, report, or record, required by this chapter.

   (d) No person shall, for the purpose of obtaining acontrolled substance, falsely assume the title of, or represent himself orherself to be, a manufacturer, wholesaler, practitioner, or other authorizedperson.

   (e) No person shall make or utter any false or forgedprescription or false or forged written order for controlled substances.

   (f) No person shall affix any false or forged label to apackage or receptacle containing controlled substances.

   (g) Any person who violates this section is guilty of a crimeand upon conviction may be imprisoned for not more than five (5) years, andfined not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both.