Arkansas Code Title 20. Public Health and Welfare § 20-13-501. General Assembly--Findings and declarations

(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that because of the inherent threat of human danger posed by injudicious use, or misuse, of dangerous substances, the physicians and allied health professionals who provide healthcare services for Arkansas citizens are in need of emergency poison control and drug information and toxicological laboratory services sufficient to provide, on a twenty-four-hour coverage basis, reliable, accurate, and qualified professional judgments and responses to requests for emergency poison control and drug information data and emergency toxicological laboratory services such as analysis of blood, urine, vomitus, and gastric lavage for substance identification, and that public health and welfare require such services.

(b) The General Assembly further finds and declares that legislation is required to authorize and provide effective practical delivery of emergency poison control and drug information and toxicological laboratory services judgments and responses to physicians and allied health professionals who deliver healthcare services within this state.