Customs Apologizes For Not Warning Consumers of Change in Drug Importing Policy

The Executive Director of Trade Enforcement for the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol apologized for failing to warn consumers that they were ramping up their effort to curb prescription drug importation. Drug importation is illegal, but the government had long been looking the other way until recently, when the Customs began implementing a new policy to seize some of these imported medications. This new policy has left many Americans in the lurch – they had been expecting to receive their imported medication as usual, and instead had to scramble to find samples – or go without their medication until they were able to find another way to buy their medicine affordably.