Medication query

[Trilby8]

Can anyone help please - we are due to travel to France/Spain in our Motorhome on the Roscoff ferry very soon - our friend is flying back to her home in Spain prior to our journey - she is unable to take her prescription medication with her as she’s restricted with weight to hand luggage - we have the printed prescription slips to accompany the medication. Is this a legal re customs ? Thanks in anticipation .

 

[Wabs]

Can’t help, but someone will

 

[Abacist]

Perhaps a letter of authority from her with her contact details might help!

 

[Podney]

Your medicine is not counted in your weight limit when travelling with hand luggage. She should take her own………never carry other peoples meds.

 

[David and Sally]

Crikey. How heavy are her meds going to be?

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[royandsharont]

I guess it may not be possible if some of the meds are controlled drugs and you could not possess them, you could be guilty of possession with intent to supply to another

 

[Abacist]

Your medicine is not counted in your weight limit when travelling with hand luggage. She should take her own………never carry other peoples meds.

The best answer I suspect!

 

[Spriddler]

Perhaps make room in her hand luggage by taking some of her stuff with you.


(Make sure your wife knows why you have another woman's knickers in the cupboard).

 

[Brains]

Don't carry other people meds across borders. Ever.
I don't even carry my wifes extensive collection of prescription meds.

Google the term 'Mule'.

 

[Trilby8]

Podney - many thanks for your reply - can I ask where we can view this fact so as to quote back to our friend ?

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[RobbyMClark]

"MIDNIGHT EXPRESS"

 

[Brains]

Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule

BBC documentary following two English girls who got conned into becoming mules and ended up serving time in a Peruvian prison.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p09m6ldn/high-confessions-of-an-ibiza-drug-mule

 

[Edenside]

If she is travelling back to her home in Spain then can she not get her prescription filled in Spain If she is residen.

 

[ChrisL]

Podney - many thanks for your reply - can I ask where we can view this fact so as to quote back to our friend ?

This link may be helpful, different airlines have different rules.

Can I take my medication onto a plane? The rules around medicines and medical equipment on different airlines

This is everything you need to know about travelling with medication and medical equipment with different airlines.

inews.co.uk

 

[Clipgate]

I believe you knew the answer be posting.
If you did not from the posts here you surely do now.
Take care avoid a holiday you could never plan for, in a small locked room.

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[poppycamper]

A VERY strange request... regardless of how well I know them I would never ask someone else to take my medication.. and more importantly I would NEVER let my medication out of my sight... of coarse just my view..

 

[Reallyretired]

I take quite a number of medications but even a couple of months supply hardly weighs anything. What is she taking?

 

[The Coops]

Importing drugs into Spain FROM the UK? That's a novel idea! Just how heavy are the packages? On serious note I have no idea but I would think HMRC/Border Control would be the authority on what you can an cannot take/do and the people to ask rather than an internet forum unless as a previous post stated *You like small rooms*

 

[carolyn]

It is illegal to share prescription medication in the UK although it’s not illegal to collect someone else’s prescription from the chemist for them. It would definitely be illegal for you to be in possesion of prescription medication for someone else even if you had a doctor’s covering letter plus that person’s repeat prescription if you were entering the USA for anything. You might get away with it going into Spain depending on what she has but I wouldn’t do it as I think you would struggle to prove it and it would almost certainly be confiscated at the least.

If her medication is really that bulky and some people do have a rucksack full then it’s her problem and she will have to pay for hold luggage for her clothes.

 

[Podney]

Podney - many thanks for your reply - can I ask where we can view this fact so as to quote back to our friend ?

Really?????

It comes from that well known literary work…..The Book of Common Sense.

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[Trilby8]

All sorted - we will not be taking any meds for anyone - Thankyou all for your advise - couldn’t see the wood for the trees yesterday when we were put on the spot - happy camping CB .

 

[Riverbankannie]

All sorted - we will not be taking any meds for anyone - Thankyou all for your advise - couldn’t see the wood for the trees yesterday when we were put on the spot - happy camping CB .

It is always tricky when someone asks what seems (on the face of it) to be a reasonable favour especially if a friend.
Glad you have sorted it .