MickSThompson
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So I've been researching this for a while and I cannot get a straight answer it seems, so I wanted to bring the question to this forum to see if I can get any true definitive answer.
A few months ago my in-laws when to Canada for a week for their anniversary and they brought back Tylenol with codeine and another product which is prescription only in the USA called Votaren. They said that while they were there my brother in-law was in a lot of pain from a back injury he suffered a while back which comes and goes for him. So they're friends in Canada gave them the Tylenol with codeine and this voltaren stuff. When they came back to the states with it they were explaining that apparently in Canada those products are available OTC, but you have to be careful bringing them back into the states.
I had no idea that you could get something with codeine in it OTC in Canada. Can you really just walk into a pharmacy and purchase it legally up there? Do you need to show them any proof that you're a Canadian resident, or do they just hand it over to you like anything else?
A few months ago my in-laws when to Canada for a week for their anniversary and they brought back Tylenol with codeine and another product which is prescription only in the USA called Votaren. They said that while they were there my brother in-law was in a lot of pain from a back injury he suffered a while back which comes and goes for him. So they're friends in Canada gave them the Tylenol with codeine and this voltaren stuff. When they came back to the states with it they were explaining that apparently in Canada those products are available OTC, but you have to be careful bringing them back into the states.
I had no idea that you could get something with codeine in it OTC in Canada. Can you really just walk into a pharmacy and purchase it legally up there? Do you need to show them any proof that you're a Canadian resident, or do they just hand it over to you like anything else?