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Arkansas Code Title 20. Public Health and Welfare § 20-13-507. Responses--Category substances

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

(a)(1)(A) The time-response design shall embrace two (2) broad, major, selective categories inherent in the threat of human danger posed by injudicious use or misuse of dangerous substances.

(B) A Category I response shall be delivered within six (6) hours after receipt of the sample to be identified.

(C) A Category II response shall be delivered within twelve (12) hours after receipt of the sample to be identified.

(D) All responses shall be followed in each instance by a written confirmation report at the earliest practicable date.

(2) Determinative category substances shall be:

CATEGORY I

 

CATEGORY II

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1) barbiturates

1) pesticides

2) narcotics

2) heavy metals

3) amphetamines

3) other substances

4) salicylates

5) phenothiazine

6) alcohol

7) chloral hydrate

8) Librium

9) Valium

10) Placidyl

11) Meprobamate

12) Methaqualone

13) Glutethimide

14) other drugs

(b) Under the authority of this subchapter, participating hospital emergency room personnel shall be qualified and trained to use spot tests and thin-layer chromatography in conducting blood and urine presumptive chemical tests for drugs and harmful chemicals as well as quick scanning examinations for common drugs such as narcotics, barbiturates, amphetamines, and salicylates.

(c) Program design includes efficient supporting recordkeeping and reporting measures within the communications network.

(d) Though this program shall at all times function as a unitary system of services to Arkansas medical and allied health professionals, it shall embrace three (3) permanent components:

(1) The College of Pharmacy of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences which is charged with emergency poison and drug information responsibility;

(2) The Library of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences which is charged with nonemergency poison and drug information responsibility; and

(3) The Chemistry Branch of the Public Health Laboratory of the Department of Health which is charged with the emergency toxicological laboratory services responsibility.

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