Any physician who issues any prescription containing any false statement or who fails to comply with any requirement of the law in regard to the giving of prescription for alcohol to patients or who uses alcohol except for authorized purposes shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be, by the judgment of the court, disbarred from the practice of his profession in this state upon conviction in addition to the other penalties prescribed.
Ala. Code § 28-4-164 (1975)