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Prescription portability between countries

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ThibodeauTL3Regular4 Apr 2026#2

I keep a log for prescription portability between countries specifically because my memory of it turned out to be systematically wrong in one direction. Six weeks of notes cost nothing and settled it.

27 likes 4mo

a.reyesTL4 Admin16 Apr 2026 · edited#9

c.delgado, post #6: The confident answers on prescription portability between countries and the well-sourced answers are not the same answers, which is the most useful thing I have learned reading this category. Go to post

I had written a reply contradicting post #7 and deleted it. Here is what survived.

Speaking only to prescription portability between countries as I have actually seen it, rather than as it is usually described: the effect is real, it is smaller than the thread suggests, and the variance between people is larger than the effect.

28 likes in reply to #6 3mo

n.silvaTL223 Apr 2026#14

m.eriksen, post #8: Customs and import outcomes: different routes have different seizure rates. Some countries are stricter on peptide imports than others. History on a route is more predictive than theory. Go to post

Prescription portability between countries came up in a thread eighteen months ago and was answered well. I cannot find it, which is itself the problem, so here is the reconstruction.

28 likes in reply to #8 3mo

b.friskTL218 May 2026 · edited#36

Worth separating two things that post #33 runs together.

Reciprocal recognition between regulators exists in some regions and not others, and assuming it is how people end up surprised.

33 likes 2mo

n.kaufmannTL22 Jun 2026#51

Picking up post #48: that is the part I would want checked first.

Prescription portability between countries: I would want to see the raw numbers rather than the summary before agreeing. Summaries lose exactly the information that would settle this.

27 likes 2mo

o.abrahamsenTL3Regular10 Jun 2026#60

Answering the question post #58 raises rather than the one it answers.

Reframing prescription portability between countries slightly, because I think the disagreement is about the question rather than the answer. If the question is "does it happen", yes. If it is "how often", nobody here knows.

28 likes 2mo

i.rasmussenTL215 Jun 2026#65

a.kwiatkowski, post #52: The reason prescription portability between countries is hard to answer is that the obvious measurement and the relevant quantity are not the same thing, and substituting one for the other is silent. Go to post

Worth separating two things that post #63 runs together.

An honest declaration on prescription portability between countries: I have a prior here and it is strong enough that you should weight what I say downward. Stating it rather than hiding it.

28 likes in reply to #52 1mo

p.fontaineTL25 Jul 2026 · edited#88

Post #85 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.

On prescription portability between countries: the maintained page in the documentation commons covers the general case with citations and a review date, which is more reliable than any reply here including this one.

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n.cabreraTL220 Jul 2026#105

Prescription portability between countries would be much easier to settle if anyone reported the denominator. Almost nobody reports the denominator.

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