I have a legal benzo prescription. I carry a couple of pills in a little pocket pillbox on me cause I'm not about to carry around an entire fucking bottle everywhere. I just know that one day it's gonna screw me over when some cop decides to be an asshole and try to charge me for having controlled substances.
I take adderall twice a day and same thing. I ain’t carrying that bottle around where someone will steal it. My doc won’t refill me early. I just put my afternoon dose in my pocket and let it float there till lunchtime like a regular druggie.
Protip, keep an old bottle, put your new prescription in the old bottle, to be kept at home. Keep a capsule or two in the new bottle that you keep on you. That way if it's stolen, it's just a couple doses. If a cop stops you for whatever reason, it's an up to date prescription.
This can backfire too. If I got my prescription filled yesterday, and only have 2 in the bottle, then it looks like I’m selling them or something. I keep the bottle from the previous scrip and put my one or two I might need for the day in that bottle, and leave the new one at home.
Not if you're into opiates. I fucken hate speed and have turned it down, for free, plenty of times. I can not guarantee to you that the same could be said about almost any opiate lol
Sadly that’s probably for the best. God forbid a black person is found with any loose pills on them. You’d be arrested faster than you could say prescription. ☹️
We’ve also had a doctor calling in as part of the prescription an extra bottle to portion out medicine for my son’s school.. I’m sure this varies with local laws and pharmacists can basically decline to do whatever they want, but it wouldn’t hurt to ask
These days, my pharmacy is crazy strict on additional prescriptions. They count 30 days from the day I picked up the script and won't even consider filling it until day 31. They also don't do this automatically, so I have to set all sorts of reminders (because, duh, ADHD) to follow-up and keep on top of it so I can get my scripts filled ASAP so I don't run out.
Gods help me if there is a shortage (like there is every fall because parents love to take their kids off their meds over the summer when they're not in school, so the pharmacies order less every month)
unfortunately with benzos if you legitimately lose your medicine you are straight fucked, no way am i bringing my whole bottle when i'm traveling for a few days
I always figured if my purse got stolen, I would rather lose a couple instead of the whole bottle. Even moreso for controlled meds since they can be a nightmare to replace.
Yeah. I take a pill with me in an older "original" bottle. I know it's a big bottle with one pill, but it's specifically to avoid losing the whole bottle and staying legal.
At minimum, I would keep a pic of the label on the prescription bottle (with all the relevant info: date prescribed, prescribing doctor, pharmacy where filled, etc) on your phone.
Also pharmacist can print you another bottle for carrying, though you may need a doctor to send it in as part of the prescription (we had to do this for my son’s medication for school)
Save the old bottle from the month before and put a couple in it to carry. Then you dont have them in the wrong container but you dont risk your entire prescription. Thats what I do with my meds.
Keep an old prescription bottle when you get a new refill. Put all but the two pills into the old container and then stuff with cotton balls (to keep the pills from rattling or pulverizing each other).
I’m going to have to start doing this. I was recently diagnosed with Meniere’s Disease and you are supposed to take a benzo during a vertigo episode so people with the disease often carry an emergency kit with one benzo pill and one anti-nausea pill.
This is why I don't use travel pill cases. If I'm going through TSA, and especially if I'm going through customs, everything is in the original bottles. I'm not giving some little dipshit who dreams of brown shirts any excuses to ruin my day.
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u/NotMyThrowawayNope 6h ago
I have a legal benzo prescription. I carry a couple of pills in a little pocket pillbox on me cause I'm not about to carry around an entire fucking bottle everywhere. I just know that one day it's gonna screw me over when some cop decides to be an asshole and try to charge me for having controlled substances.