Thank you Nephro for fixing the earlier .gob.mx link!

And now in English - Narcotic and Psychotropic Drugs

patient2all

This dont make sense.oxy 80mg is not hydrocodone.why didnt you get a rx for oxy from that doc.mexico has oxy!!!

I hope this straightens out the issue and stops the false news we sometimes get on the issue.

i would like to ditto the last post. as someone who has traveled latin america a bit, i know of no country which allows hydrocodone to be sold with or without a script. i have heard all the rumors but my face to face experience says no way. that includes mexico.
i am in central america right now and just had a talk with a fellow who sells meds to pharmacies and he told me he knows of no country that has it. if someone know of an exception, i am all ears

ask about kodone...7.5/325 made in south america.cant recall country but they do exsist.the hydro sent from costa rica is the kodone brand but it is produced outside cr.

Well, I don't know anything about WHERE it is made, HOW it gets there, or WHY it's there, but as far as Tijuana, Mexico goes, you most certainly CAN get REAL hydro..About as easily as you can get the Chicklet packets of gum that vendors are walking around everywhere trying to sell you! (anyone who has been there will know what I am talking about, as far as the Chicklets go..) As far as it being LEGAL, well, hell no it's not... THAT particuar area of Mexico caters to the underage kids that come down from San Diego to party. It is a very poor area and they rely on the 18 year old Marines that cross over in San Diego. Those kids want to party, and although they can die for our country at 18, they can't drink a beer legally in the US. So they go where they CAN have a drink and not have to worry about getting busted by a superior by staying at a sleazy motel for the night. SOrry, got off topic there a lil.. WHen you go down there, you have ppl coming out of every pharmacy offering you Vicodin, (Darvocet is their big one) If you act interested in Vicodin, they tell you that you have to go to either 'the place next door' OR to the back of the pharmacy where you will procede to tell someone sitting in a more than scary environment that you need Vics for blah blah blah...You pay that person (whether it IS a doctor, a regular ole person with a stolen script pad, or whoever it is,) 50 bucks, they write you the script, then you take it back to the original person that initiated the contact to begin with. (With darvocet, you just tell them you want that and avoid all those steps) As I said, it is illegal as hell I am sure, but they somehow have it... As far as getting back into the US, well, we are such a prejudice nation, that it honestly depends on what you look like on whether or not you get searched or not..I have taken the bus from the border to my car, walked over the border, where the ppl are lined up as if they are in line at an amusement park and NEVER been searched.. I have watched Mexican 'looking' people get searched from head to toe, down to inside their shoes.. But I happen to have blonde hair and blue eyes, and they ask if I was approached or if I bought anything while there, I said no, and was on my merry way..Please to anyone about to start telling me how stupid I am for doing this, save your time. I know it was dumb and very chancy. But desperate times have called for desperate measures in the past. Fully aware if the illegality if it..Just sharing my experience.

BS... there is not a pharm in this country that would give you 300 oxy 80 at once... doctor sctipt or not... there is a limit of what they can write per month. and 300 is well above it.

i dont believe this for a second.

Apparently this medication is manufactured in Guatemala and sold in other Central American countries.
It is slowly finding its way into the US via Mexico.

This subject seems to come up regularly. In fact, both hydrocodone and oxycodone medications are manufactured in Mexico. OxyContin is, however, no longer available there.
The problem for this poster might have been where he and his doctor were located in Mexico. Mazatlan is not exactly a teeming metropolis.
In order to prescribe narcotics like hydrocodone and oxycodone, doctors must have a special license which is limited both in number and geography. It is extremely difficult for the ordinary Mexican citizen to be prescribed these narcotics outside of a hospital in a large city.
While many people in the US complain about access to narcotic pain treatment, they would be doubly appalled at the situation that exists in our neighbor to the south.
All of this is, of course, unrelated to the conditions that exist regarding legalities enforced at pharmacies near the border or in heavy tourist areas. Your guess is as good as mine where and how these operations get their narcotic meds. They seem to be operating in some kind of parallel universe.

I go to Mexico often.."since I can see it from my backyard"..and have gotten the regular stuff..valium. codeine, and Tramadol. Many years ago I was able to get oxycodone, but it was because I new the owner of the Farmacia..but they no longer carried it the last time I was there due to import laws.
As far as hydro...I was always told they didn't carry it...but it's been a few years since I crossed the border, so maybe things have change.

Just wondering.....do you need a passport?

I don't think you do just to cross. I think you have to be going so many miles in to need one. *could be wrong, but hope I'm not*

Yes Dawn...I believe as of Jan 1 08. It used to be that you just needed a form of ID like your D.L...in fact, I think you need a passport for Canada as well. You don't need it to get in, it's just if you'd like to come home! LOL

well i am in costa rica now and it(kodone) definatly is not available here legally. i just talked to a pharmacist at a major chain here and he never heard of it and either has my local doc. if people say it is available in guatamala of honduras, thats news to me. now if i knew for sure it was available in panama, id be at the border by nightfall. but last time i was there i was told nothing like hydo was available
thanks for the input!!

http://www.pharmer.org/node/9979

heres a photo of kodone blister pack

Yes. It appears to be made by Cheminter, which is in Guatemala and/or Paraguay.

I have placed my vicodins in the bottom of opened potato chip
bag and munched my way thru. Done it several times. Doubt they
are reading this and will go thru people eating open snacks

Use to go almost every week until 911 and now the line stretches miles to get back in unless it's 3 a.m.
If you are coming from L.A. that 2 1/2 hours going, 5 hours coming back,not to mention tracking down your meds.
A ballsy friend
use to go down the yellow pages here and point blank ask if they write. Eventually he would find a doc who would help. I couldn't do it,but if you are suffering.....

to add...I travel to South East Asia on business every year.
Can't get anything,including hospitals,stronger for pain
except Tramadol,which is like aspirin to me. But you can
get Valium,Xanax Ativan in drugstores and and on the street! Go figure. My sister-in-law is a doctor and the best
she can get me is diazapem.Gave me a bottle of a 1,000 once!
Crazy. I gave half to a friend of mine. So its not only Latin
America pharmacies.

Yea, Asia loves the benzos..

Maybe I missed it, but I'm able to go to Costa Rica to visit a friend, and I have a prescription by a US doctor for Hydro 10/325. Can I get that filled in Costa Rica?

WHy would you want to do that when its a definate in having it filled here?

Mexico sounds pretty interesting.

i realize this is an old thread, but i bought some "kodone" in a private farmarcia in columbia two weeks ago without a perscription although i did have to pay a small extra fee. it is 7.5/325 hydrocodone in an abbott blisterpack. but the marking was identical to the ones in the picture