What medications in the journey should be a recipe

In January 2016, Veronika Kalevich rushed by bus from Vilnius to Minsk. On the border it turned out that her pills from headaches can only be pronounced with a doctor's recipe ... Tut.BY figured out, what drugs do this requirement extends and what will happen if there is no recipe?

On the border she promoted three hours, and the recipe sent relatives by fax

In the checkpoint "Stone Log", the customs officers asked Veroniki if she was lucky. The girl showed the tablets, among whom was the preparation "Sedalgin-Neo". She removed his headache. It turned out that it was impossible to carry him without a recipe.

- knowing that I have nothing to hide and knowing anything, I showed the contents of the aid kit. The attention of customs officers attracted Sedalgin-Neo tablets. One of the components in this medication is Codeine, refers to psychotropic. I had a non-unpacked plate with ten tablets. There was no recipe with me, "she says.

From the bus, a girl removed. After some time, relatives sent a recipe for fax to the checkpoint.

- It was still lucky that the house was a recipe on the second pack of medication. If it were not, then the help could be found only in the clinic, "says Veronica.

That day on the border, the girl spent about three hours. She was withdrawn from her. Then Veronica was put on another hosting bus to Minsk.

Psychotrops with them may be no more than 90 doses

Declaration on the border of the medicine that the traveler bought for himself without a doctor's prescription, no need. But if this drug contains narcotic or psychotropic substances, if the recipe is discharged, the border will have to go through a red corridor.

Among the narcotic and psychotropic drugs, travelers are most often imported into Belarus with tramadol, dextromethorphian, pseudoephedrine, alprazolam, a phenazepam, clonazepam, modafinyl and Cirrus, explained in the Customs Committee.

The amount of drug containing narcotic substances cannot exceed the three-day patient's need, and psychotropic substances should be in a bag of not more than 90 single doses. If the medicines are greater, the customs officers have doubts that the drug will use for personal purposes.

At the same time, on the border, it will be necessary to show an extract from the medical card, certified by personal seal and the signature of the doctor. It should indicate the name of the drug, dosage and the amount required by the patient for a day.

Instead of discharge, a recipe or its copy is suitable, certified by the original seal of the doctor and signature.

The recipe or extract should be in Russian or Belarusian. If the certificate on a foreign - without a notarized translation could not do.

For the illegal prosecution of medicines, the traveler may fall under an administrative or criminal article. To avoid this, the drugs on the trip must be assembled by studying special documents. At a minimum, it is worth familiar with the list of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances prohibited and allowed to move across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union. This list.