Anyone with experience on college kid prescriptions in New York? D17 uses vyvanse and adderall. Can we take written prescriptions from our home state and have them filled or does she need a prescribing doctor there? Just planning ahead for August and appointment timing. Thanks!
I do believe that prescriptions in NYS are now done electronically. I would call a pharmacy close to campus (use google to find one) or Health Services at the college and ask how you can best handle it. I’m sure something can be worked out.
Remember that if your student is on your family’s insurance (not the college’s insurance), there is no particular reason why she needs to use the student health center’s pharmacy. It’s perfectly OK to use a pharmacy in the community; it may just be a little less convenient.
If the school is NYU there should be many pharmacies conveniently located in Greenwich Village.
You could look into mail order through your insurance and see if it can be shipped. For safety, perhaps have it delivered to the health center and your child can pick it up there.
My D takes vyvanse. The tricky part we have found is that NY pharmacies won’t fill a scrip issued more than 30 days earlier. So I either send every month, or we do a 90 day fill.
Does Adderall have to be a paper Rx taken in person to the drugstore? It is a controlled substance, We got 90 days and then the student either gets connected to a prescriber near or on campus, or comes home for more.
NYS has electronic prescriptions. The student will have to find a provider who will order the medication for them.
I would recommend you contact a New York pharmacy. It is a state in which it can be hard to fill out of state prescriptions. In general, NY is the only state which requires e-rx for all prescriptions. There are exemptions though. NY law requires written Rx to be on a specific prescription form.
My friend, who is a doctor, told me that under electronic prescribing, the doctor is supposed to see the patient every 30 days when prescribing scheduled drugs. She is a psychiatrist so she is familiar with the types of meds that the system is supposed to be presenting abuse of.
Depends on the state – if you currently use a regional pharmacy such as CVS or Walgreen’s that has stores in your hometown as well as new location, your current location can check whether the new location can simply accept the out of state script. Some states can, others cannot. My kid’s first year of college, there were a number of missteps in transitioning his prescription – his new state required paper script, written within 30 days. There were some logistical nightmares, and it took us some time to work out an effective system. My kid’s doc would only write 3 months per in-person visit, so there were many balls up in the air.
NY wouldn’t let me submit the scrip at an Ohio Walgreens or CVS and have her pick up in NYC. D has to come home at least once a semester to visit doc to keep things rolling.
We are from CA and I fill and mail my daughter’s prescriptions to her in RI. Kind of a pain for me but she doesn’t have to deal with it- she has enough on her plate…
Ah, sounds like I will be making her manage it with the student health center. She’ll be on the Tandon campus and home is near Kansas City, so that’s a bit too far to come home for scripts. Our health insurance will cover her there, thankfully, so we will look into getting her something scheduled for welcome week.
I did read the statute on e-fill and saw that vyvanse can be a 90 day fill. That’s wonderful because here in KS by law controlled are on a 30 day fill. I have one I take so I have to see my doc every month for a script, it’s a pain in the butt.
Hi All, I have the same question but for Worcester, MA. We are in California and are trying to determine how best to get S his meds. Here, we can only get a 30 day supply at a time, and if you miss filling it for a few days the clock resets. Same set of meds. Here they are a controlled substance. As an aside Dr. said there is talk of a new federal statute that would prohibit sending via Fed-X or mail which is how they said most of their parents in their practice now handle.
In our state, it is also a controlled substance and cannot be mailed/shipped. We find ways to make it work, but it is always complicated. Some schools with infirmaries/health centers may be able to provide a mechanism for getting prescription written there at school.
DEA doesn’t limit the day supply of a controlled substance. The only rule is that it must be reasonable. State regulations can supersede federal regulations.
You do not have to be seen monthly to get a controlled prescription. DEA allows for ladder prescriptions. The provider can write one Rx for now, one with a fill date one month from now and one, two months from now
DEA has approved e-rx for controls but some state’s do not allow it.
Mail is a federal issue. It is perfectly legal to mail controlled substances. There are even regulations for it. The long and short of them is that they must be in a regular envelope with no writing to indicate that it is a controlled substance. There is no movement to ban mailing of controlled substances. The latest change the DEA has implemented has to do with transfers of never filled controlled substances.
@chel17, In MA you need a physical prescription form for ADD meds. It cannot be called in to the pharmacy or sent electronically. The person presenting the prescription also has to show ID. It’s possible to have the meds prescribed at school but it can be a real PITA depending on how long it takes to get a doctor’s appointment. My recommendation would be to continue to have the prescriptions filled at home. If you can only get 30 days at a time you can usually get the prescription filled early for a few months in a row so you have a buffer. Between parental visits and vacations you should be able to get away with only sending meds through the mail a couple of times a year.