TRT and Ordering

[zipster_dude]

Hey guys! Been on TRT for about a year now. Love it!

I was wandering about ordering from overseas while having a Rx. Is it still illegal to order and have the stuff shipped to me if I have a valid Rx?

What are the ramifications of this? Anyone who can help I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks,
Zip

[zaggahamma]

Hey guys! Been on TRT for about a year now. Love it!

I was wandering about ordering from overseas while having a Rx. Is it still illegal to order and have the stuff shipped to me if I have a valid Rx?

What are the ramifications of this? Anyone who can help I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks,
Zip

I'm not sure the RX is legally valid for more than the state it is prescribed but don't quote me. I know that Georgia wouldn't take a RX for my child cause it was from FL.

[Big]

Most likely, no, it wouldn't be legal. Any time a doc gives you a prescription, it's for a designated amount of meds in a designated time. When you purchase meds on the prescription, your info is updated so that the purchase is shown. If you purchase from an online supplier that does not update your prescription info I don't see how that would be legal.

[zipster_dude]

Interesting. So basically all rx only stuff is only valid for purchase within the approved government system. Sounds like big drug manufactures donate a little cheddar to the MAN. Luckily my insurance covers my trt.

[StickNPuck]

Different states have different rules on how they regard prescriptions for controlled substances. For example some states won't honor prescriptions written by doctors out of state. Other states have rules where they won't honor the prescription if it was written by a family member. Orders that are filled for controlled substances are recorded monitored by the government.

If you have a prescription for a non-controlled substance you can pretty much order from anywhere in the US, and its up to your insurance company and the type of plan you are on that determines how much you will pay....the government doesn't really care in that instance. My wife has a medication that we have filled from a US pharmacy on-line because Wallgreens and CVS charge an outrageous price for it. We called up our insurance company and told them what we were doing. Now we just send them the receipt and they reimburse us for the cost minus the co-pay. It saves us money, it saves them money, and government doesn’t care.

With or without a prescription, it is illegal to order controlled substances from overseas. It used to be that you could order non-controlled substances from overseas provided you had a valid prescription from your primary doctor. I think the law was changed a year ago so that it only applies to Canada now.

In addition, most states have their own set of laws you would have to deal with.

[zipster_dude]

Different states have different rules on how they regard prescriptions for controlled substances. For example some states won't honor prescriptions written by doctors out of state. Other states have rules where they won't honor the prescription if it was written by a family member. Orders that are filled for controlled substances are recorded monitored by the government.

If you have a prescription for a non-controlled substance you can pretty much order from anywhere in the US, and its up to your insurance company and the type of plan you are on that determines how much you will pay....the government doesn't really care in that instance. My wife has a medication that we have filled from a US pharmacy on-line because Wallgreens and CVS charge an outrageous price for it. We called up our insurance company and told them what we were doing. Now we just send them the receipt and they reimburse us for the cost minus the co-pay. It saves us money, it saves them money, and government doesn’t care.

With or without a prescription, it is illegal to order controlled substances from overseas. It used to be that you could order non-controlled substances from overseas provided you had a valid prescription from your primary doctor. I think the law was changed a year ago so that it only applies to Canada now.

In addition, most states have their own set of laws you would have to deal with.

great info!

Thanks,

[LmbrJak]

It violates Federal law, you cant order unless you are a regestered importer with the dea.


SUMMARY: On April 27, 2001, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
published a notice in the Federal Register (66 FR 21181) to provide
guidance to prescribers, pharmacists, law enforcement authorities,
regulatory authorities, and the public concerning the application of
current laws and regulations as they relate to the use of the Internet
for dispensing, purchasing, or importing controlled substances. Since
publication of that notice, DEA has noted increasing numbers of both
Internet Web sites and ``brick and mortar businesses'' claiming to be
able to assist individual consumers in purchasing prescription
medications, including controlled substances, from Canada and other
foreign countries. This document reiterates current Federal law and DEA
regulations pertaining to the importation of controlled substances from
foreign countries. Persons who have controlled substances sent from
other countries into the United States violate Federal law unless those
persons are registered with DEA as importers of controlled substances
and have received from DEA an import permit.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia M. Good, Chief, Liaison and
Policy Section, Office of Diversion Control, Drug Enforcement
Administration, Washington, DC 20537, Telephone (202) 307-7297.

Heres the link if your interested

http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2...4/04-14716.htm