{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-13-1702","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 20-13-1702","heading":"Legislative findings","body":"The General Assembly finds that:\n\n(1) In the United States, drug overdose death rates more than tripled since 1990;\n\n(2) Every day in the United States, one hundred twenty (120) people die as a result of a drug overdose while another six thousand seven hundred forty-eight (6,748) are treated in emergency departments for the misuse or abuse of drugs;\n\n(3) Joshua Ashley-Pauley of Faulkner County died of a drug overdose in May 2014;\n\n(4) Drug overdoses were the leading cause of death in 2012, with drug overdoses causing more deaths among people between twenty-five (25) years of age and sixty-four (64) years of age than motor vehicle traffic crashes;\n\n(5) Overdose reporting legislation, medical amnesty legislation, or 911 Good Samaritan laws have been enacted in fourteen (14) states, including Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Tennessee, and are under consideration in several other states;\n\n(6) In North Carolina, it is believed that at least twenty (20) lives have been saved since passage of similar legislation; and\n\n(7) The State of Arkansas must take steps to combat the increase of drug overdoses in the state and protect the health and safety of its citizens.","path":["AR Code","Title 20","Chapter 13","Subchapter 17"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"3973f0728373bc432c58fcd57c9e0a1d16dfbebe49404f24f9b303b1e00787eb","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-13-1701","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-13-1703","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}