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Arkansas Code Title 17. Professions, Occupations, and Businesses § 17-92-102. Exclusions from provisions

Current as of March 28, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) Nothing in this section and § 17-92-101, § 17-92-103, § 17-92-105, § 17-92-205(b), § 17-92-206(b), § 17-92-303, § 17-92-402, § 17-92-404, § 17-92-405, § 17-92-409, § 17-92-410, and § 17-92-411(a) shall prevent the personal administration of drugs and medicines carried and kept for emergencies by licensed physicians, dentists, or veterinarians in order to supply the immediate needs of their patients while in their presence, nor shall it apply to physicians, dentists, or veterinarians compounding or dispensing their own prescriptions.

(b) The provisions of this section and § 17-92-101, § 17-92-103, § 17-92-105, § 17-92-205(b), § 17-92-206(b), § 17-92-303, § 17-92-402, § 17-92-404, § 17-92-405, § 17-92-409, § 17-92-410, and § 17-92-411(a) shall not apply:

(1) To the sale of drugs and medicines when intended for agricultural, technical, and industrial use, unless those drugs and medicines are legend drugs as defined in § 20-64-503;

(2) To the sales by wholesale druggists, wholesale or retail grocers, or other wholesale or retail dealers or manufacturers of proprietary medicines in original packages;

(3) To the sales of those drugs commonly known as “grocers' drugs” in original packages when put up under the direction of a licensed pharmacist of this or some other state; or

(4) To the sale or shipping of antibiotics and microbials for veterinary medical use directly from a wholesaler, distributor, pharmacy, or farm store to a client if the veterinary drugs and medicine are dispensed based only on a prescription of a licensed veterinarian who has an existing veterinary-client-patient relationship with the client.

(c) Further exempted from the provisions of this section and § 17-92-101, § 17-92-103, § 17-92-105, § 17-92-205(b), § 17-92-206(b), § 17-92-303, § 17-92-402, § 17-92-404, § 17-92-405, § 17-92-409, § 17-92-410, and § 17-92-411(a) are the sale of legend drugs approved by the State Board of Optometry by licensed pharmacists to duly licensed optometrists and the possession and use of legend drugs by duly licensed optometrists as authorized by the board and by §§ 17-90-401--17-90-403.

(d) In the event a pharmacist receives a request for a prescription refill and the pharmacist is unable to obtain refill authorization from the prescriber, the pharmacist may dispense a one-time emergency refill of the prescribed medication, provided that:

(1) The prescription is not for a medicinal drug listed in Schedule II as defined in § 5-64-205;

(2) The medication is essential to the maintenance of life or to the continuation of therapy;

(3) In the pharmacist's professional judgment, the interruption of therapy might reasonably produce undesirable health consequences or may cause physical or mental discomfort;

(4) The pharmacist properly records the dispensing; and

(5) The dispensing pharmacist notifies the prescriber of the emergency dispensing within a reasonable time after the one-time emergency refill dispensing.

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