how does it being illegal to not store prescription medications in the orange pill bottle work with things like weekly pill organizers?

gingerautie:

thisisclemfandangocanyouhearme:

gingerautie:

slatestarscratchpad:

I don’t think people think these laws through or enforce them. I think it’s mostly just so that if they see someone carrying a ziploc bag full of Oxycontin to the local sketchy street corner, they have one more charge to pin on them.

Do you not get all your pills in blister packs in the US? I’ve literally never got any medication ever in orange bottles – I thought those were only in films?

Wouldn’t it be worryingly easy just to put anything in a bottle? Switching out people’s meds, pretending your illegal stuff is heart meds or some shit?

No, in the US we get bottles. Honestly, I prefer it – every time I get my month’s prescriptions here (in the UK), I think how much waste it produces needlessly. I hadn’t considered it in terms of someone swapping them, but people can do that if you’ve removed them to put in pill organisers, anyway…

True, but at least you know what it is when you get them? And that no one could have mixed them up by accident or tampered with them.

You can easily see how many you’ve taken from a pack, and it’s a lot of effort to take lots out at once, which seems like it would reduce impulsive suicide attempts. 

Pill bottles seem weirdly anachronistic, IDK.