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Posted by natg on January 31, 2001, at 19:22:45
Hello,
Is it illegal to order Ativan without a precription?Thanks for answering, if anyone knows.
Nat
Posted by AndrewB on January 31, 2001, at 23:11:23
In reply to Ordering meds from overseas, a question, posted by natg on January 31, 2001, at 19:22:45
> Hello,
> Is it illegal to order Ativan without a precription?
>
> Thanks for answering, if anyone knows.
>
> NatNo it is not illegal.
AndrewB
Posted by danf on February 1, 2001, at 8:42:13
In reply to Ordering meds from overseas, a question, posted by natg on January 31, 2001, at 19:22:45
> Hello,
> Is it illegal to order Ativan without a precription?Ativan is a schedule IV drug & is illegal to have in your posession without a valid prescription in most states.
Posted by AndrewB on February 1, 2001, at 10:06:42
In reply to Re: Ordering meds from overseas, a question, posted by danf on February 1, 2001, at 8:42:13
> > Hello,
> > Is it illegal to order Ativan without a precription?
>
> Ativan is a schedule IV drug & is illegal to have in your posession without a valid prescription in most states.Thanks for that information Dan. this following excerpt may also be of interest:
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Kindly visit the US Customs Website at http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/travel/travel.htm and http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/travel/med.htm or
http://www.fda.gov/ora/compliance_ref/rpm_new2/ch9pers.html for detailed information pertaining to the personal importation of medication into the United States.If a US citizen or resident travels abroad to a foreign country, purchases a prescription medication< 90 days supply > and brings it physically to the United States, declares
it to US Customs, US Customs reserves the right to allow the medication to enter the USA or refuses to allow the medication to enter and detains it, similarly when the
prescription medication< 90 days supply > is imported into the USA by mail, US Customs also has the same two options, either allow it to enter or refuse entry and detains
the mail shipment. No less than 250,000 pieces of foreign mail, including flat envelopes resembling correspondence, regular mail, small parcels, etc arrive at every USA
international port of entry daily, it is impossible for them to physically inspect any more than 5 to 10% of the foreign mail entering each individual port daily. So on an
average 90 to 95% of medications mailed into the USA pass through US Customs uninspected but legally. If a shipment is inspected and in the worst case scenario,
detained or seized, the intended consignee receives a seizure notice in the mail from US Customs, informing them that their medication has been seized, informing them
about their right to contest the seizure, or give up this right to contest the seizure, the convenient way to get around this is not to contest the seizure, fax the seizure notice
to the foreign pharmacy that mailed the medications and they will replace the seized medications for free, i.e., they will mail it a second time.There are no legal repercussions for this kind of import, if your order is seized and you give up your right to contest the seizure, that is the end of it. It is not illegal, a
shipment seized simply means it was refused entry, that is all.
Posted by Neal on February 2, 2001, at 0:46:05
In reply to Re: Ordering meds from overseas, a question, posted by AndrewB on February 1, 2001, at 10:06:42
Thanks Andrew
Posted by pat123 on February 8, 2001, at 17:30:19
In reply to Re: Ordering meds from overseas, a question, posted by AndrewB on February 1, 2001, at 10:06:42
>
> Thanks for that information Dan. this following excerpt may also be of interest:
> --------------------yes, but......
I did some checking with a few contacts in the states. The short answer is that AndrewB and danf
are both right. Customs may or may not allow drugs to pass through but this has no bearing on your right to possession. It is, da facto, illigal
to posses controled and/or scheduled drugs without a perscription. So even if customs allows your package through it is illegal to posses these meds without a perscription. One of my state side contacts made the point that this issue spans 2 government agencies, customs and the DEA, so one should not expect to be "out of the woods" if your package makes it through.Another contact had some good points. 1) use a state side doc for scripts 2) or use a foreign
doc. He said Mexico is very loose about this and it is easy to get a doc to perscribe. 3) Be happy you are saving a lot by not paying the always high American price for meds, the amount saved will more the pay for an office visit so you can be legal; if you take several meds you will still save hundereds of $ 4) be esp. careful if getting drugs that can be abused, the penalties are higher and Customs is on the lookout for these.Pat
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