All of this seems to be based on slim chances vs slim chances; the slim chance that you’ll have some kind of issue that only four tablets of eg codeine will help vs the slim chance that border officials will go through your first aid kit tablet by tablet. Others may have experienced things differently but I’ve never had my luggage examined in such forensic detail. Drug dogs sniffing around, yes, many times, luggage turfed out on the floor, yes, that as well, but questions about what this or that is or whether I have guns, knives ( or drones) is as far as it’s gone. Maybe I look honest or something but the contents of my first aid kit ( or the inside of my air filter if you want another approach) have never been examined.
Quite why you’d need anything much stronger than Paracetamol or Ibuprofen unless you have a specific medical issue I’m also struggling with. I have loads of pain issues that flare up from time to time but other than hospitalisation with kidney stones I’ve never used or needed serious opioid pain relief. Codeine isn’t even that good ( for my pain issues anyway).
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