Eleanor Galvin

And it's a kind of a wise thing to do to bring a copy of your prescription with you or for some medication specifically.

to bring a letter from your GP explaining why you're on it.

And that may not be so big for going to places like France or Spain or in Europe.

But if you were going to the United Arab Emirates, Bali, Thailand, Turkey, even, there's a lot of what we would call kind of normal enough stuff that people would be on.

like anti-anxiety medication, sleeping tablets for certain things, ADHD medication and painkillers that are banned in those countries, which in some of those countries you need to get prior permission and you should always check with those sort of countries what you can bring in and what you can't.

There is every year.

And then it's very hard in retrospect to be sending over the documents over there and then not to be suspicious of it because it's seen as

It's a criminal offence.

So they make a huge distinction between prescription medication for you prescribed and stuff that you're just carrying in.

So leave it in its package.

Have an explanation for it.

Declare it when you're going through.

into the airport if needed, but be sure that you have your ducks in a row.

So it'd be very easy if you were a newly diagnosed ADHD person to chuck your tablets into your bag and off you go to a foreign country and then suddenly find yourself in a little bit of trouble.

Painkillers like salpidine, some countries even have problems with those.

So some people might just throw in a pack.

That just to be cautious about those sorts of things.

So ask your friendly GP for a letter.

Are you a pharmacist?

Anybody for something that explains or makes it sure that this is clear that this is prescribed for you and not something that you if you were stopped over there, that's not something you bought over there.