Prescriptions Medicines Nogales

Yes, similar to Los Algadones but much smaller. Park close by on the U.S. side and everything is within a block into Mexico.

Just make sure that you make a copy of the prescription, take the original and the copy to the pharmacy in Nogales MX., some farmacias keep the original perscription, that way you have the copy of the prescription and the purchase receipt so that you do not get arrested on the way back to the USA.

navegator

We have never needed prescriptions to purchase medications in Nuevo Progresso Mexico.

Mexico is Mexico... You need no prescription. But remember you can't purchase schedule one drugs (narcotics) and bring them back. Our experience is in Los Algadones. Take your original packaging/box with you to make an apples to apples comparison. Make sure to compare amount of drug in your package with the Mexican package. Their packaging can be a smaller amount that makes the cost between Mexico and US nominal on some drugs. About 90% of the time Mexico is at least 1/3 cheaper. You just have to be savvy and pay attention.

Mexico is clamping down on certain medications that require prescriptions, what used to be in the past is changing.

navegator

navegator wrote:
Mexico is clamping down on certain medications that require prescriptions, what used to be in the past is changing.

navegator

Please elaborate... I haven't seen changes is the drugs we've been buying in the last several years.

Thunder Mountain wrote:

navegator wrote:
Mexico is clamping down on certain medications that require prescriptions, what used to be in the past is changing.

navegator

Please elaborate... I haven't seen changes is the drugs we've been buying in the last several years.

No changes Texas way past 15 years.

navegator wrote:
Mexico is clamping down on certain medications that require prescriptions, what used to be in the past is changing.

navegator

I didn't experience anything different in Nuevo Progreso last Feb, nor did my friend have any difficulty with her prescriptions in Nuevo Progreso in January of this year - is this very new? Got any more information?

I will elaborate for you guys:

For years pharmacies in border towns in "MEXICO" not in "TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA or CALIFORNIA" have looked the other way when a certain medication has required a doctors prescription, the MEXICAN government is now requiring that those medications that require a medical prescription be documented with:

1.-The medical prescription that they keep.
2.-A current identification with a photo as in drivers license or INE (Instituto Nacional Electoral) that info is written on the prescription.
If No 2 is not available then:
3.-A bill with the name and address of the same person presenting the prescription as in a water bill, or the electric bill, phone bills are not accepted.

Not all the farmacias in the smaller border towns are compliant or have been caught not following the law, the law is there.

That the law is bypassed yes that is México, the mighty dollar is muy Fuerte!

Los Algodones is a little town in México in the State of Baja California Norte that borders the states of California and Arizona along the Rio Colorado, it is a place where the Snow Birds from the Coachella Valley from Palm Springs to Winter Haven in California and all the Snow Birds from the Yuma, Quartzite, Gila Bend and other wintering areas go to get a lot of medications, also to the dentists.

The law is there and if the farmacias want to follow or look the other way?

navegator

All anibiotics require a prescription. Some of the border town farmacies are selling white box drugs. No name and address of the mfr. Some are rboxed drugs fro India. The big chain pharmacies are legit.

Moisheh