DrugBuyers.Com: Where Do You Hide Your Meds?

I used to need to hide my meds from a crazy, abusive roommate who would steal them and then use them to blackmail me - either charging me for them or forcing me to do some humiliating thing to get them back. Thank God I'm outta there now. Before anyone asks - this person seemed normal and i had no idea they would go psycho on me until we were already sharing an apartment. Sometimes you get into bad situations and it's truly not your fault. I didn't call the cops because this person scared me and he was a good lier and manipulator (as well as an illegal drug user) and he always had a scheme to lie and to make me into the bad guy (when his psycho temper wasn't giving him away.)

Anyway - I therefore had good reason to hide meds (and to move out!) and i found great value in the old axiom "Divide and conquer." Numerous times I hid my meds in a certain room and then when I was in great pain I couldn't reach them because the psycho was within eyesight, up all night on his illegal drugs and furiously cruising the internet for sex. So I started using a couple different spots, guaranteeing that I could always get to my meds when I needed them - in spite of his unpredictable behavior. Another cliche in support of this technique might be "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." I always figured that if he found one of the hiding places, at least it wouldn't be a total loss.

Someone mentioned that they would leave only a few pills in their bottle so that it looked like they were almost out or needed a refill. This could be a bad idea because anyone brazen enough to rifle through your house would certainly be willing to call the number on the bottle and say, "I'd like a refill." They could use up all your refills and you wouldn't even know it. Most pharmacies will give your Rx to anyone who knows your name and what they're picking up. Even if the pharmacist knows the person the rx is for, the thief can just say they are sick and this is a believable excuse most of the time. And if you don't have refills left, the pharmacy would probably say "We'll have to call the doctor for you" and they will either get you a new refill or else get your doctor worried about you if it's too soon. and that would be even worse because, well, good luck explaining this to your doctor. They might give you the benefit of the doubt, but it would be a mental knock against you. If this happened and you did explain it to your doctor, they might require you to fill out a police report to get a replacement - or they might report it to the police themselves - and that could create a lot of stress if you didn't want to press charges against the perpetrator.

I have a question:
I have to carry meds with me to follow my schedule, but I don't like to carry my entire bottles with me. I take numerous meds, so I would need a lunch sack! plus it's not safe to carry them around since they could get lost or stolen. But I read a thread a while back about someone who had been taken to jail for carrying meds without the original rx bottle - apparently it's not legal. Is there any way to discreetly carry only what you need, legally, without the risk of a legal misunderstanding?

I think the best hiding paces are the ones that are totally hidden or inaccessible. Hide-in-plain-sight and the tricks involving putting things in a container and resealing it to look unopened can backfire because a person who is stealing meds is doing something irrational already. it wouldn't take much for them to totally disregard consequences and just rip open containers, telling themselves that they'd find a way to deal with it later or else replace the package they had opened.

On the history channel there was a show about spies and hiding places. One of the best hiding places discussed was in an office. the spy discovered that if he lifted up the lighting panel next to a wall (false ceiling) - which required standing on a chair - he could see that there was actually a hollow space between wood beams, behind the drywall. he took his hidden object (a tiny camera) and tied a long string to it (longer than the wall's height.) at the end of the string he tied a piece of metal. (camera one end, metal the other.) he then lowered the camera gently down into the space behind the wall via the opened ceiling panel, dropping it onto the floor in the inner space as close to the drywall as possible. once in place, he dropped the string and the metal down as well. all gone! after replacing the ceiling panel, it was totally hidden. even if someone had seen the panel askew, they would have found nothing up there. and even if they'd gotten a flashlight and shined it down there, the angle was such that they wouldn't see anything. how many people would tear apart a wall just because a ceiling panel was askew? to most people, it would seem impossible for anything to be hidden down there since it would be 'unretreivable'. Whenever the spy wanted his camera he just locked his office door and then put his chair next to the wall. Next he got on the floor with a strong magnet. The piece of metal would "snap" onto the drywall where he was holding the magnet. He would then slide the magnet up the wall, pulling the almost weightless string, until it was the the top (climbing on the chair when neccessary.) When the metal was at the top, he moved the ceiling panel, grabbed the piece of metal, and then pulled the camera up by the attached string. Brilliant, eh?

This thread was really entertaining and interesting and helped me to forget my own problems for a few minutes. now that's some good medicine. thanks!