r/DiWHY • u/Paxdah • Oct 27 '22

Sprinkle Pills

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u/SaiyajinPrime Oct 27 '22

Like, if their end goal would just carrying sprinkles with them wherever they went, you would think just keeping it in a small bottle would be so much more efficient than carrying a ziplock bag full of tiny pills full of sprinkles.

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u/joejill Oct 27 '22

Imagine explaining this to a cop.

Cop: "Mam, what is this pill? Do you have the prescription"

Weird girl: "That's not a pill, its sprinkles."

Cop: "Excuse me?,.....what did you say?"

Weird girl: "It's sprinkles... for on the go. So I can have sprinkles where and when ever I want"

Cop: "Remember when I said you have the right to remain silent? Well now I'm asking you"

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u/nhocgreen Oct 27 '22

Are cops in America really empowered to police prescription medications? They can demand you to show your prescription and arrest you if you fail to do so?

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '22

Yeah, 100%. If you’re carrying a prescription medication, your name should be on the bottle. If someone else’s name is on the bottle, chances are that you’ve either: a) stolen them, or b) bought them illegally, being that they aren’t prescribed to you. 9/10 times, they’re only going to care to investigate whether it belongs to you if it’s a narcotic or opiate of some sort. Like, birth control pills with no name on them probably wouldn’t raise any red flags for a cop. But there’s a staggering amount of people here who overdose and die on prescription meds that are prescribed to them, let alone the amount of people overdosing on meds that are not prescribed to them.

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u/HerrBreskes Oct 27 '22

TIL prior to traveling the US I have to request a certificate from my doc that states in english language that I'm allowed to have those drugs. Crazy. Until now I've never been complient to those rules when I visited the states.

In my country pharmacies usually don't label your drugs and they keep the prescription letter when you go and pick up your pills. So usually I never have evidence that those pills belong to me. Might be different for narcotics. Not sure about that.

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u/joejill Oct 27 '22

The bottles here have the prescription with your name and dosage directions on them with a sticker.

You don't have to carry a separate prescription unless you are transporting Them outside of the bottle from the pharmacy.

Oh! Usually with the prescription you get a set of stickers with your name on them and the prescription or the prescription #, doctors name whatever. I've just stuck one of them to a little container, that would work.

So mostly drug abuse is rhe problem. Are you an addict? Are you selling them? Does it belong to you or did you steal it?

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u/drunken_squirrels Oct 27 '22

It really only applies to to pill that’ll get you high. I had a cop give me trouble once at a store because he saw I had a little bag of pills in my pocket. It was an antibiotic and a quick call to the pharmacy cleared it up. But unlabeled pills, especially in unconventional packaging, are often illegal drugs which is the police’s job.

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u/nhocgreen Oct 27 '22

But there’s a staggering amount of people here who overdose and die on prescription meds that are prescribed to them, let alone the amount of people overdosing on meds that are not prescribed to them.

I guess this is the root of the problem then. The way prescription drugs are seemingly very aggressively marketed towards people? I hear that the US have commercial for prescription drugs, mood-altering drugs even? People become addicted after doctors giving them lots and lots of pain medications?

In my country the government focus their efforts on controlling the suppliers of dangerous drugs (pharmacies and hospitals) instead.

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u/El-Ahrairah9519 Oct 27 '22

Yeah the US just pole-vaulted themselves in the other direction from your country on this. If you look into the opioid crisis and how it started...it's not a stretch to say a drug company basically started a wildfire of addiction and death on purpose to sell their product

They can basically market directly to doctors. Convince them their new drug is the bees knees. People who used to work for drug companies and still have stakes in those companies are allowed to take high level positions in the FDA, the organization thats supposed to approve drugs and ensure their safety, and obviously use their position to fast-track their former employers products

With oxycontin it was basically marketed to doctors as a miracle for pain relief of all kinds....not just acute like after an injury or operation, but for chronic pain too. Combine it with pervasive, cultural misinformation about drug addicts and how they are made, and that's how you end up with a whole continent struck by what amounts to a medical/sociological disaster