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Old Aug 24, 2016 | 11:45 pm
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What can happen if you're "caught" with small amounts of medicine w/o prescription?

I've tried to find the answer to this before but haven't been able to.

Is it a crime to have very small amounts of prescription medicine in your luggage w/o a prescription when returning to the USA?

Sometimes when I travel I don't want to carry 3-4 different prescription medication bottles so I just combine them into one.

I also have a small bottle with 8-10 Vicodin pills prescribed to me many years ago after surgery, but the label is totally faded and unreadable.

Also, I've been known to buy packages of antibiotics for personal use in countries that don't require a prescription.

So let's say I had a total of 20-30 pills - Cipro, Vicodin, Lipitor, Amoxicillin, etc. in various bottles/packages, none indicating a prescription.

Is there anything CBP could do if they really wanted to punish me or give me a hard time for that?
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