Jack Hamilton wrote:
>On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:16:39 -0400, Brian K
> wrote:
>
>>On 7/1/2009 7:16 PM Joseph Coulter while holding "Agent 99", exclaimed:
>>> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:08:49 -0700, "Nonny" wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Sue Mullen" wrote in message
>>>> news:7b1tqhF21g3huU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>
>>>>> All medicine should be kept in original containers and this is
>>>>> true for prescription or OTC meds/supplements.
>>>>>
>>>> Exactly I always take the paperwork for the meds but admit if they want the vitamins, they can have 'em
>>>>
>>> Joseph Coulter
>>> Joseph Coulter Cruises and Vacations
>>> www.josephcoulter.com
>>>
>>If the pills aren't in the original bottles with labels, I don't think
>>that the paperwork will help you at a port of entry where there is heavy
>>drug trafficking. From the customs and security officer's prospective
>>those pills in the bottles could be X, meth, or oxy.
>
>How does having the pills in original bottles prove they're not
>oxycontin? You could have taken out the old pills and put in new
>ones.
>
I've always wondered that too. My Tylenol has the name stamped on
them. And I agree if they want my Calcium pills or the aspirin I can
easily buy more. The only pills that I really need to have are the BP
ones - one of which has a heart stamped on it.
Actually I put all the pills that I need for the trip in a pill keeper
which holds 2 weeks worth. Then I have a couple of extra days worth
in day keepers. I put the bottle labels on the back of the pill
keeper, and I try to keep copies of the prescriptions too.
I also take an non-aspirin pain reliever which is prescription that I
am always careful to take during dinner with a full stomach, so I
don't put them in the pill keeper - I just take the pill from the
original bottle. In that bottle I put extra pills for all the
prescriptions. That's the only original bottle I take, and it doesn't
have just the original prescription in it.
>If the inspector can identify pills by sight, they don't need to be in
>original bottles, and if s/he can't, it doesn't matter if they're in
>the "original" bottles.
I do have a funny story about that - I was in a wheelchair going
through Heathrow and I had put my day's medicines in their plastic
holder into my armpit pocket thing under my clothes where I thought it
would be fairly safe from pickpockets. They did a pat down of me
since I hadn't gotten up out of the wheelchair to walk through the
scanner (and since then I've always walked through having learned my
lesson).
The pills under my arm rattled and they wanted to see them, but I was
wearing a full length dress (as opposed to a blouse and skirt) and I
was not wearing a bra. So I said I'd have to pull the dress up to my
neck to get to it. So they took me into a private room, and I
undressed and showed them what I had, and they had no problem with the
pills not being in original containers. Of course it was just 4 or 5
pills including aspirin.
I was traveling with my grandson and he got a big kick out of it - he
kept saying "Grandma had a cavity search"
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