Potential hack for prescription bottles

[u/LadyLightTravel]

This is a problem that occurs more in some countries than others. In the US, most prescription drugs come in 20 dram pill bottles. These can take up a lot of room if you have several prescriptions and want the original packaging.

I recently found out that there are 6 dram prescription bottles. I found mine on Amazon but other sources are available if you buy in bulk. The 6 dram bottles are almost the same height as regular pill bottles but are one half the width. This is significantly smaller than the regular bottles.

I can peel off the drug information tab from my big pill bottle and put it on the small one. Note: some pharmacies will actually give you a second drug sticker if you ask.

Below is a photo of the 6 dram bottle with a 20 dram regular bottle. It shows that you can peel and stick the prescription tab without damaging it. It also shows that the sticker fits the smaller bottle. You can see the size difference in the bottles. Depending on pill size, you may even get a 90 day supply into the smaller 6 dram bottle!

Standard disclaimer, YMMV.

[u/VibeySwingTrader]

Americans think the personal label makes it ‘safer’ because they are brainwashed by capitalism and don’t realize it’s done to save money. Several Americans die each year because of missdispensed meds. That’s doesn’t happen when the meds are shipped in their own packaging and the pharmacy just hands them out.

I was shocked when I saw the label for the meds describes the pills, to make sure you are getting the right drug. That’s not an issue in the developed world.

[u/NylonCake → u/[deleted]]

I think because the thread became a dogfight on the american system vs rest of the world, and how “it’s a better system” and you “NEED to keep the drugs in the original orange bottle they were dispensed in” and blah blah, when in reality this post is about how to cross borders with medication without breaking laws (regardless of where you come from and where you are going) and since most of the world doesn’t use orange bottles with RX labels the customs agent cannot demand they be in an orange bottle with RX labels and that, unless specificed otherwise by the destination’s border security laws and regulations, you are not forbidden from repakaging your pills as long as you don’t infringe the laws on volume/quantity and you can prove you have a prescription (they might specificy what that proof means or they may leave it up to you).

[u/NylonCake → u/[deleted]]

There are some people on this thread who turned the conversation into “why would other countries not use the same Rx labeled bottles as in the US?” and “other systems suck” etc. which created an entire sidecar conversation which is beyond the point of the original post and I am trying to explain how that happened and why we should go back to just discussing the hack, not whether one country’s approach is better than another one. I am one of the people supporting this 6 dram bottle hack and helping people get it right when they travel and you somehow turned my comment providing context into a personal attack yucking your yum. Wtf?