Drug Run to the Border

Drug Run to the Border

Posted on Nov 3, 2007 in News & Views by PMC Comments Off

In states bordering Mexico and Canada, it is common practice for people to buy their medications in the countries with the best pricing-which is not the United States.

In my own case, even though I have USA medicare, I get almost all medical care in Mexico. However, with frequent trips back to Phoenix, I sometimes overstay my supply of prescription medications from my Mexican doctors.

I was back in Phoenix , recently, doing rehab on my wife’s rental house and maintenance on our own home. As work progressed slower than anticipated, I told mi esposa that I had to make a drug run to the border to refill one prescription. Mexican prescriptions cannot be refilled in the USA. She told me that I almost always wind up having to do the same, each time I come back to Arizona.

Transportation to the border is cheap and convenient from Phoenix and Tucson, where 75% of Arizonans live. From Phoenix, I took a $25 shuttle van direct to the border- a three hour ride. The driver’s speedometer often showed 80 mph. Contrast this with transportation up north. How far will $25 take you? Why? It has to be the competition in Phoenix, since there are many border shuttle companies.

Read the rest of Don Patricio’s Run for the border

Tags: border, border crossing, drug run, Mexican meds