Health & Safety Code Class 314 Practice Test 2026 - Free Health & Safety Questions and Study Guide

Forging or altering a prescription means making unauthorized changes to a prescription or creating a false one to change what the patient should receive. Increasing the prescribed quantity of a dangerous drug by forging the prescription is exactly that: it involves tampering with the prescription’s instructions to obtain more medication than was originally authorized, which is a deliberate act of alteration and forgery.

Fittingly, other actions don’t involve changing the prescription itself. Filling a prescription exactly as written is simply following the order. Refusing to fill a prescription isn’t altering the document. Writing a prescription for a drug you know is unsafe is a serious ethical violation, but it’s not about altering an existing prescription.