Prescription Monitoring Program Arkansas Department of Health

Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

Per Act 820 of the 2017 Arkansas legislature, ADH is required to post prescribing criteria to the website. Additionally, various licensing boards were required to promulgate rules limiting the amount of Schedule II narcotics that may be prescribed and dispensed by licensees of each applicable board. The boards required to promulgate such rules include: Arkansas State Medical Board, Arkansas State Board of Dental Examiners, Arkansas State Board of Nursing, Arkansas State Board of Optometry, Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy, and the Veterinary Medical Examining Board. The Director of the Department of Health, upon consultation of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Advisory Committee, decided to post each boards’ promulgated rules as applicable prescribing criteria for the state. They are linked as follows:

Dental Board: see page 92.
Optometry Board: see Chapter V. Article IX – Prescribing CS (fifth link from the bottom)
Medical Board
Nursing Board: Chapter 4, Section 8.
Veterinarian Board: see page 16.
Pharmacy Board: see page 7-20.