[at-l] Prescriptions & Thru Hiking

[daveh at psknet.com (David Hicks)]

A couple, or three, of comments:

1)  Last year I found out that maildropping Rx to yourself w/o the official 
labels is a violation of federal law.

2)  Some mail order pharmacy will not do the general delivery thing.

3)  Most large pharmacy chains (as well as Wal Mart w/ pharmacies) have a 
"store locator" on their web site, which will search by zip code.  Using the 
"Companion," or "Handbook" for the zip codes of the trail POs you can find 
stores that will work -- albeit I had to use more than one "chain."   My 
Doctor (who is also a hiker) was able to fax scripts to them for me.  They had 
no problem with nice fresh fax from a Doctor's office.  I'm not so sure that 
it would work as well with a trail worn old scripts in-hand.

Chainsaw


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carol Donaldson" <carol1944@brmemc.net>
To: <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 10:10 PM
Subject: [at-l] Prescriptions & Thru Hiking


Any of you who had to have prescriptions refilled for a Thru Hike, how did you 
handle that?

Are there any options, other than having a Mail Drop every 30 days?

Would a pharmacy in another State accept a prescription written 30/60/90 days 
previously in Georgia?

Thanks for input,
Coosa
Carol Donaldson
carol1944@brmemc.net
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