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Prescription Medicine and Customs

  • 28-05-2009 10:30am
    #1
    libertas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭


    Hi. I am taking a flight next week to South America. Will have Prescription drugs with - have a copy of the prescription for one but only have the box and the label with my name/address on it for the other one.

    Is the above sufficent not to get any hassle?? (This isnt paracetamol - they're the type of drugs that can be misused or used for so-called recreational use - but not street drugs).

    Do I have to bring them through in carry on or can I put them in checked in baggage? If carryon, do they need to go into the plastic ziplock bag?

    Thanks in advance for any info....


Comments

  • #2
    mikedragon32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32


    You can take them as carry on. If they're tablets, they don't count towards your allowance for liquids. No harm to have a copy of the prescription, but never usually a problem if you don't.


  • #3
    mickman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,661 ✭✭✭mickman


    there will be no problem as long as they are in correct packaging and you only have a few i.e. your not going there to sell them :-)


  • #4
    libertas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭libertas


    Thanks lads - just wanted to clear that one up. Not the sort of problems I want to face!

    One final question. Does this fall under the 'Anything to Declare?' question?


  • #5
    mickman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,661 ✭✭✭mickman


    not at all. is it a controlled substance?


  • #6
    sickpuppy32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 507 ✭✭✭sickpuppy32


    i think you can get a thing called a "precription drug passport", used to date a girl who had a massive amount of stuff - she had one of them


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  • #7
    libertas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭libertas


    mickman wrote: »
    not at all. is it a controlled substance?

    Not sure if they are classed as 'controlled' - but I have heard of people having issues travelling with them before. Its the fact that they are abused that brings them into the focus of customs authorities..

    I guess I should be ok.


  • #8
    mickman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,661 ✭✭✭mickman


    find out on web if its controlled. if its not then you will have no problems at all


  • #9
    Berty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,158 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    We recently travelled with a medical syringe and we declared it at security and declared it with customs on arrival.

    Nobody seems to care about it mind you.


  • #10
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Unless it's something that the dogs have been trained to sniff out then they will be very, very, very unlikely to even notice ... and even if they do notice they are highly unlikely to care.

    I am always travelling with lots of sharps and prescription drugs that would actually be dangerous. Not once have they been noticed on the scans, and when I point them out to them before they stick their hand in my bag to search for something else they never give them a second glance. They have never even commented on me not putting them in the daft ziplock bag thing either and it's always the tube of toothpaste that I have in the bag which they are far more concerned with.


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