Carrying Expired Narcotics in a Prescription Bottle Prescribed to Me

Regarding Oregon:

I'm a streetbike rider and I carry a severe trauma medical kit, as I am a certified first responder.

In it, I have CELOX wrap and a hemostatic injector, tourniquet, isreali bandages, HALO seals, etc, and a prescription bottle with my name on it with 5 5mg oxycodone's. It's definitely geared for the extremes. I got the oxy's from when I got my wisdom teeth taken out 4 months ago. I just can't leave them at home knowing they would help my survival getting to a hospital.

I don't think I'd have a hard time convincing a jury that it is for extreme emergency use, but I do have a prior drug conviction for mushrooms 6 years ago. Legal info is so state specific and obscure and it's hard to find preexisting cases like this in my state specifically, and even the police don't know the law, so I am here to ask the experts.

Is this legal?

Carrying a prescription drug in the container in which it was dispensed and with the prescription label on it is not illegal. Carrying them out of that container would be.

I question your statement that the oxycodone would help you survive while getting to a hospital, however. Orally taken pain medications take time to take effect, by which time you should already be at the hospital in a critical emergency. Moreover, if the drug did take effect before you got there then that may mask important symptoms the doctors will need to see in order to effectively treat you. None of that bears on the legal issue, however.

Note that the jury would not hear of your prior drug conviction. It would only hear the evidence concerning the current charge.

Thanks, that was my general understanding, but I'd like extensive proof if I'm going to bet my freedom on it. Can anyone else confirm? What about 5 years down the road, when it's well expired?

When you're out carving canyons or mountain backroads in the middle of nowhere or the woods, with a broken ankle and ribs, I think oxy's would definitely help to get back to civilization. Or how about that guy in Arizona that had to cut his own arm off trapped under a boulder, just saying, it's possible. I've seen some extremely painful looking motorcycle accidents and I realize it could happen every time I ride. If it's for sure legal, I want to have that capability. Btw, I'm pretty sure when chewed and sublingually absorbed, relief starts ramping up within 5-15 minutes.

Thanks for your response.

Your use of the pain meds will be counterproductive. If you take enough to actually allow you to walk with a broken ankle, you're going to be too stoned to walk or too stoned to be able to actually have the sense of mind to be able to actually get to where you intend to go.

Since you cannot prove the meds are as old as the bottle there is a high probability it will be seen as meds not dispensed under that prescription. Additionally, meds are prescribed for a specific issue and since the issue the meds were prescribed for will be long since dealt with, you have no legal basis to continue to keep the meds. You cannot "self prescribe" meds for a new medical issue.

Bottom line; yes, they will quite likely cause you trouble. Even if you are somehow exonerated, it is more likely than not there at least be an investigation which may be precipitated by your arrest.

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Quoting jk

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Bottom line; yes, they will quite likely cause you trouble. Even if you are somehow exonerated, it is more likely than not there at least be an investigation which may be precipitated by your arrest.

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Thanks jk, that's the info I was looking for. I believe you are right, from my common sense.

Unless you are an MD, you can't prescribe pain medication, even for yourself. There are situations where taking any pain medications could endanger your life and/or possibly lead to permanent disability if they are taken.

You may find that newly acquired aspirin has more painkilling capability than 5+ year old oxys.

Just fyi.

(So if I was on your jury , no I wouldn't buy your story and yes, I have a pharm. background ;) )

Dogmatique, I don't think anyone with common sense would buy his story. I wonder if the manufacturer that is on the label is the same one that is in the bottle ?. . LOL Know what I'm getting at ?

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Quoting Mercy&Grace

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Dogmatique, I don't think anyone with common sense would buy his story. I wonder if the manufacturer that is on the label is the same one that is in the bottle ?. . LOL Know what I'm getting at ?

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The brand in the bottle and the brand on the label are not always they same. I take a led that went to a generic but my first couple of fills of the "generic" version were actual repackaged name brand. I presume the compsny making the generic did not have the capabilities to fill all orders from their own manufacturer and purchased the name brand to complete some orders.

All my scripts show the manufacturer and description of the pills inside. If the script is split into two manufacturers, I get two bottles. I don't get any that are pre-packaged, though.

Mercy and Grace, I get your point.