Posted by desertflower on August 10, 2001, at 13:50:41
In reply to France vs. USA: no contest » desertflower, posted by Elizabeth on August 10, 2001, at 12:12:47
> > Thank you for the info, elizabeth. You are referring to the injectable, but is it possible to order from foreign pharmacies the sublingual tablet?
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> I would imagine so. I don't know much about ordering drugs from overseas, as I've never tried it myself. One thing I do know is that it's much harder to get controlled substances (such as benzodiazepines, stimulants, opioids, etc.) from overseas than it is to get noncontrolled prescription drugs. With a U.S. prescription, it's legal to import a 3-month supply for personal use, which isn't bad. If an order is mailed to you from overseas and is seized by Customs, you can pick it up if you have some sort of proof that it's legitimately prescribed.yes, sometimes my husband's package was siezed at customs, and we would have to fax a copy of the prescription to this guy at JFK, who would then clear it! Yes, his French doctor was prescribing the meds for him, and now it is part of a maintanence progrmam, though which is about to end, because the doctor in france couldn't continue.
I'm a bit confused as to what kind of red tape you have to go through and what counts as a legitimate prescription, though.
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> > His doctor would write the prescriptions, and his mom would send them to us here in the US.
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> I'm not sure how legal that is. French doctor, right?
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> > It was great-but now we've been out of France too long, and couldn't continue under his care.
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> I think you could run into trouble trying to get it prescribed by an American doctor. The import option might be easier, if you can find a doctor in France who's willing to continue the prescription.
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> How long were you in France, BTW, and in what part?
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> -elizabethI was in france one year- but he is a frenchman, so he has always been there, right outside of Paris. Today we talked to his primary care physician who said he can't even give him bupe for depression, and the only alternative is to go into a methadone clinic. I told him my husband is not using drugs, and a methadone clinic is not what he needs. He is functioning perfectly well with subutex(buprenorphine) and needs to go to work everyday! He apologized, and said there was nothing he could do. Try Scandanavia, he said. Right.
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