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[Tony Soprano]

On my 1st 3 LOS trips I've arrived at Suvarnabhumi at between 10-11PM and after
getting through Immigration, I just walk through customs because there's never
anyone there. My trip coming up in April, I get to Suvarnabhumi about noon.
Will that man there'll be people in customs and they'll go through my stuff? I
tried to search here for answers but couldn't find one. I have some meds I have
to take and usually take some different vitamins, too. I can leave the vitamins
home and just get multivitamins in LOS, but if the meds I take are in the bottle
from the pharmacy with my name on the label, is that good enough to get them
through?

[Stealth007]

@TSteve C


I also take medicine with me , here in europe you can go and get a list of medicine at my pharmacy and let the dokter put a stamp of approval , i think with that list and stamp you will be oke.....


Greetz , Stealth

[Twoshots]

Shouldn't be a problem at airport (Bangkok) I've never been searched. Any meds in proper bottles and labelled would be the sensible norm. The more dodgy area in terms of meds, is if your transiting through the Middle East, Dubai etc: They have extensive lists of forbidden medication and potential severe punishments for infringements. Worth doing a web search if passing through these areas. Whether or not they are prescribed to you in your own country of origin may not protect you.

[Beerlao]

wouldnt worry about vitamins or any proper medication - just have proper labels in place

[Tony Soprano]

Thank you for the replies, guys. I didn't think it should be a problem and I'll
be going through Korea and I know that will be OK. I should have new
prescriptions by then and I'll just make copies to have that besides the
med bottles they come in that has my name on them.

[cesar67]

been stopped once , prescribed meds you will not have a problem, ffs you can go into most pharmacies in los and buy valium over the counter.

[johnlbx]

I've been through customs there over 50 times and only once did they take notice of me and they asked me to put my bags though X-Ray. I've never seen them open any bags.

I think they look for people with tons of luggage figuring they may be smuggling in some things.

[Quietguy]

Twoshots, on 15 January 2012 - 11:41 PM, said:

The more dodgy area in terms of meds, is if your transiting through the Middle East, Dubai etc: They have extensive lists of forbidden medication and potential severe punishments for infringements. Worth doing a web search if passing through these areas. Whether or not they are prescribed to you in your own country of origin may not protect you.

Thanks for mentioning that. I will be transitting through Dubai. I did a web search and some of the stories about people being seized and jailed for 'drugs possession' are quite scary.
You need to have a doctor's letter or original prescription for any medication, and any medicine containing codeine is illegal.
People have been jailed for having 3 poppyseeds from a bread roll on their clothes, or a minute speck of cannabis on the sole of their shoe. You have to declare any medication to Customs officers, and apparently you are also supposed to declare any books you have with you.
I realise with thousands of people pasing through the airport it is unlikely one will be stopped. But if you are it could lead to serious problems.

[PURE]

Pandemonium, on 16 January 2012 - 12:59 AM, said:

been stopped once , prescribed meds you will not have a problem, ffs you can go into most pharmacies in los and buy valium over the counter.

Try buying pseudoephedrine, Sudafed 12-Hour relief in the USA is a contolled substance in Thailand and you need a doctor's prescription to get it. If you bring it in hope you have a presccription for it.

I have several meds I bring in and I always bring them in the prescription bottle, I also bring in the one a days and fish oil capsules.

Edited by PURE, 17 January 2012 - 01:47 PM.

[Twoshots]

Re quiet guy..The Middle East you just got to be a little more careful, and you do go through the Scanners again even if only transiting. Its not a problem, but just because one has a legal medication from one country, whether or not on prescription, doesn't make it legal in another. And no bacon sandwiches or porky scratchlings because they'll think your taking the piss.

[Robi_slo]

Last time I had some sleeping pills in my wallet... I thought they were harmless sleeping pills but as it turns out they were some pretty exotic barbiturate-like sh...t. mother got as a cancer patient. I was searched on 4 different airports and I didn't have any problems, they didn't even stop my wallet when they scanned my luggage.



BR

[Twoshots]

But next time they might.

[luv u long time]

I would be very suprised for 'transit' passengers at an airport if you were acting in a normal manner, ie the meds stay in your luggage, you don't consume them on UAE soil (in the airport) and they are all labelled up that you would be given any grief worth worrying about.

There have been situations where people have been given some problems, but there was always more to it than the simple fact that the media inevitably take out of context.

http://www.dubai-onl...ial/customs.htm

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Drug Laws

Dubai has very strict drug laws. Anybody thinking about bringing drugs or restricted medicines into Dubai should read the following articles:

• Fair Trials International - Briton imprisoned for possession of 0.003 g of cannabis, plus other cases
  
• BBC News article - Various cases
  
• Gulf News - Codeine requires a prescription
  
• Gulf News - Woman jailed for traces of codeine in her system
  
• ArabianBusiness.com - Surge in number of British tourists arrested for drugs in 2007, drugs in bloodstream can count as possession

[sjsharks]

Entered the country close to 50 times and never been searched.

[cesar67]

lets face it, we are all pretty much now aware that prescribed meds will be ok, comes down to common sense, obviously it's the guys that are planning on bringing in cocaine ect that they are after, not some guy who has a packet of codine in his luggage.