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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Sour D on March 17, 2012, 07:19 am

Title: Hoarding Prescription Meds?
Post by: Sour D on March 17, 2012, 07:19 am
    What is the legality of hoarding prescriptions (opiate pain meds, C2) In the USA? Let's say you have a bunch of bottles of pain meds that are less than half gone?

1) What happens if police find these and no other drugs in your house?

2) What happens if police find these and you have other drugs in your house (weed). Do the pain meds automatically become evidence against you (e.g. a controlled delivery to bust the weed you got on SR)?

3) What would be a good excuse if you are ever questioned about them?
Title: Re: Hoarding Prescription Meds?
Post by: MagicMan on March 17, 2012, 08:02 am
If the name on the bottles is yours than I don't think they can count against you in any way, however, if they're not prescribed to you then I believe it is either a felony or misdemeanor depending on quantity.
Title: Re: Hoarding Prescription Meds?
Post by: fizzy on March 17, 2012, 07:04 pm
- If they're prescribed to you, then there isn't an issue as far as having not taken them and being in possession of them.
- The pills in the bottle need to match the actual pills dispensed; yes, this is on record, the 'Teva yellow oval generics with Z markings', etc. It's often labeled on the bottle for a C-II, but, even if not, most officers/agents who work with diversion know to check this. (Having -more- in the bottle than was prescribed would also be a problem, it raises awkward questions.) 
- You may be in a tricky situation with the person who prescribed them, if they were prescribed as a to-be-taken-regularly dose, rather than an as-needed dose, and you have a great excess. It's not the end of the world, it's kind of awkward.
- Other C-Is in the house don't invalidate the presence of your prescribed medication. People can have cocaine, MA, cannabis, whatever, but their prescribed Opana is still considered legit. Still, a tricky situation with the prescriber in that case.

- If they're someone else's meds, or (potentially) if they're out of the bottle/mediset, then having them is a misconduct-involving-a-controlled-substance charge related to the amount and schedule of the drug.
If you pre-load a weekly mediset on your own, -save the bottles-.
If for some reason that's just impossible, then ffs, get a printout from the pharmacy of the current rx for some degree of verification.

--f.
Title: Re: Hoarding Prescription Meds?
Post by: Sour D on March 18, 2012, 10:37 am
- You may be in a tricky situation with the person who prescribed them, if they were prescribed as a to-be-taken-regularly dose, rather than an as-needed dose, and you have a great excess. It's not the end of the world, it's kind of awkward.

   Actually, the bottle says "as needed" for severe pain, but the person who is prescribed them tells the doc they are taken the maximum as prescribed. Technically, as needed does not equal misuse, but yes the prescriber may get pissed.

- Other C-Is in the house don't invalidate the presence of your prescribed medication. People can have cocaine, MA, cannabis, whatever, but their prescribed Opana is still considered legit. Still, a tricky situation with the prescriber in that case.

   This is the part that's hard to believe. For some reason, I would think that if the cops come busting through your door with a felony warrant for receiving drugs across state lines, they are going to try and make an example out of you, especially if they know it's from SR. They would love the media hype it would create, and I'll bet they'd love to make the news story more juicy by reporting that a large of amount of XX narcotic pain meds was seized as well, since a personal sack of weed would sound kind of pathetic by itself.

It's no secret that police conform to local cultural/media pressures, and unfortunately the area we are referring to here is a an area that has huge narcotic problems, and the cops are dirty as shit when making drug busts.

   Even if they don't charge you with it, I can totally see them confiscating the legally prescribed, correct-name script-bottle just to "aid in the investigation" or something. What do you think about these type of scenarios? Plausible or unlikely?