The number of American adults who take medications for chronic medical problems is truly frightening. According to the latest statistics I’ve seen, the percentage of the adult population who take at least one prescription medicine every day, for some chronic condition they have, has reached 70%, reflecting a 14% increase in the last three years, the highest percentage ever reported. Sadly, much of that is for conditions which can be avoidable, such as diabetes, hypertension and other weight-induced chronic conditions.

This is truly scary from a survival point of view. We don’t really include medications as one of our top survival priorities, but maybe we should. What will happen to all those people, when there’s a serious, long-term disaster, which keeps them from being able to get their medications?

William Forstchen dealt with this in his best-selling book, “One Second After.” Both the character’s father-in-law and his youngest daughter needed prescription drugs to survive, with the daughter needing insulin to deal with her Type 1 Diabetes. Since insulin needs to be kept refrigerated, even his attempts to get medicine and keep it for his daughter failed, with her supply of insulin losing its potency even before it ran out. Is this what’s doomed to happen to many of us, should a TEOTWAWKI event occur?

Improve Your Health

The starting point for any of us is to make an honest evaluation of our current health. We need to determine if this is much of an issue for us or not. I don’t think there’s anyone who can totally ignore their health, when it comes to survival, as even the healthiest amongst us can become injured during a time of crisis.

We want to ensure our health is as good as possible, before that time of crisis comes. That may mean losing weight, starting to exercise, changing your diet, seeing the doctor, getting surgery or a host of other things. Each area of our lives, which have a potential to be a problem during and after a disaster needs to be dealt with, reducing the potential impact as much as possible.

That will likely take some time, as losing weight or bringing down your blood pressure aren’t things that happen overnight. You may never fully succeed, but even a partial victory is worthwhile, as it will help you survive in a time when you can’t get your medicine.

Stockpile Meds

The next step is adding the necessary medications to your stockpile. You should already have over-the-counter medicines in there, as part of your first-aid supplies. But do you have enough? If you’re thinking long-term survival, you might need a lot more than you already have. Look for a sale somewhere and stock up.

Other than over-the-counter medicines and any medicines that family members take for chronic conditions, the most important medicines to have on-hand are antibiotics. We use antibiotics for a variety of things, ranging from disease to injury-related infection. Most will treat a variety of different conditions, with a lot of overlap between the ways we can use the various antibiotics on the market. The problem is getting them.

By the way, most medicines last considerably longer than the expiration date on the package. Other than a few things, like insulin, which require refrigeration, they don’t actually know how long most medicines will last. How they are stored is an important factor; but all antibiotics and medicines in pill form will last for at least a couple of years past the expiration date. Liquids or gel-caps won’t last as long, so try to get all your prescription medications and even over-the-counter meds for survival in pill form.

Talk to Your Doctor

Your first source for stockpiling prescription medicines is your family doctor. Talk to them about what you want to do and why. Most doctors will be understanding and work with you, even if they don’t work with you to the point you want them to. In other words, they might be willing to write you a prescription for three months extra of medications, even if they aren’t willing to write you one for a year’s worth. A lot of that is going to be associated with just how stable your medical regimen is.

Doctors also receive samples from pharmaceutical companies and may be willing to share those with you. Each package will probably only provide enough for one or two doses, but at least it will be free. If you have a really good relationship with your doctor and they’re not the kind to normally give away those samples, they might be able to give you quite a bit.

Getting that prescription isn’t usually as big a problem as getting it filled. Most insurance companies are very particular about how much they will cover and won’t pay for anything over and above what you need for daily consumption. You’ll probably have to pay for those extra medicines yourself.

One thing to consider is just what medications you are taking. Doctors will generally prescribe the latest and greatest, as those are supposedly better. However, in many cases, there are less-expensive alternatives, which have been around for years. An option to discuss with your doctor is asking for a lower-cost alternative drug for whatever condition you have, just for your stockpile.

Buy Online

One good way of saving money on buying those medications yourself is to buy them online. There are a number of online pharmacies that have sprung up, offering to provide medications at a reduced rate. Some also provide you with the prescription, supposedly written by a doctor they have on staff. Take care when using these services, as they are not all above board. They could be providing nothing more than placebos and charging you for them. Check out the specific pharmacy, before ordering from them.

Mark Cuban, of Shark Tank fame has opened up his own discount online pharmacy which was created with the intent of helping people deal with the high cost of medicines. They don’t carry all the latest, high-cost drugs; but rather the old standbys. They’ll show you the normal retail price for those drugs right there on their website, alongside their price. One thing though; you’ve got to have a prescription, as they don’t have a doctor on staff to write them.

Another recent addition to the online marketplace is Jase Medical. These people seem to have set their website up especially for preppers. They offer two basic services: creating a custom emergency pack of prescription medications to meet your needs during an emergency and creating a custom emergency pack of antibiotics to keep on-hand for any emergency.

Buy in Mexico

Perhaps the best place to buy prescription medicines is in Mexico. I can personally attest that the Mexican pharmaceutical industry is excellent, as I have used their products for years. You’re not going to find the latest medicines there, as those are still protected by patent. But for all the older “standard” medicines, they’re a great source.

Most of these can be bought over-the-counter, in the pharmacy, without a prescription. That includes antibiotics, which require a prescription here in the United States. There, many of the more common antibiotics are available in 100 pill bottles, at very reasonable prices.

There are some exceptions though. Narcotics and any mind-altering drugs still require a prescription. You would also need to have a prescription to bring those medicines back across the border though. While our customs doesn’t say much about bringing back antibiotics, blood pressure medicine and other common pharmaceuticals, there is a list of prohibited medications which you can’t bring into the country without a prescription.

If you’re going to buy antibiotics like this, I’d recommend taking some time to do some research online, checking with reputable medical websites, to find out what the various antibiotics should be used for and what the proper dosage is. That information is readily available online, but it might not be available during a time when the power is out. Therefore, it is worthwhile taking the time to develop your own reference sheet, from the information that you find on those medical websites.

Prepare to Use Alternatives

Another source for antibiotics is the veterinary industry. Many common antibiotics are packaged for veterinary use as well as for human. These are usually the same antibiotics, made on the same production line, but sold under a different name. I’m not going to provide you with the names here, for liability reasons, but they aren’t hard to find. Just make sure you know what you’re getting, what it is the equivalent of and how you should be using it.

The other alternative that everyone should consider is herbal medicine. Our modern pharmaceutical industry got its start with herbal medicines. Even today, many of the medicines they produce are actually things they find in nature, then develop a way of producing artificially. They have to do that, because they can’t patent something found in nature.

Nature herself provides us with a lot of medicines, if we take the time to learn what they are. There are a lot of books available on this, as well as some extensive websites. These herbs can be taken in a number of different ways, such as drying them and putting them in capsules, making teas out of them or even making your own essential oils. The key is learning what herbs can be used for what conditions. They are usually taken in combinations, so that you can gain the benefit from several of them. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I was taking garlic every day, because garlic is a natural antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal. Since antibiotics don’t work against viruses, I wanted the garlic for its antiviral capability.

Written by

Bill White is the author of Conquering the Coming Collapse, and a former Army officer, manufacturing engineer and business manager. More recently, he left the business world to work as a cross-cultural missionary on the Mexico border. Bill has been a survivalist since the 1970s, when the nation was in the latter days of the Cold War. He had determined to head into the Colorado Rockies, should Washington ever decide to push the button. While those days have passed, the knowledge Bill gained during that time hasn’t. He now works to educate others on the risks that exist in our society and how to prepare to meet them. You can send Bill a message at editor [at] survivopedia.com.

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  • I’ve asked my mom’s doctor to prescribe sunshine and an hour per day being outside instead of an increase in depression meds. The long term care facility she’s in won’t take her outside, so I’m asking for a prescription to be written that requires the facility to administer the sunshine and fresh air as a prescription.
    I’m serious and won’t take no for an answer. His office doesn’t know what to do. They seem to only know how to prescribe medications.

    • I am so sorry John! That might be one of the most ridiculous and sad comments I’ve ever seen!! To have to write a script for your dear mother to have fresh air and sunshine??!!! Wow. Is there any way that you can get her into a different place that WILL actually care for her as she’s supposed to be?!? This place is NOT!! To have demand something like that?? Boy oh boy heads should rolllll!!! It’s all about the drugs! Sedate them to the point that they can be neglected and not be able to speak up!! ANYONE would sink into depression living like that!! If you can, please get her out!!

      • It’s been a 9 year journey caring for my elderly parent. It’s been the honor of my life to be entrusted with this sacred responsibility. It has been my experience that ALL long term facilities, or SNFs as they’re called (Skilled Nursing Facility) do not provide holistic care. This stage of life is where it is the most obvious that the medical industry has been taken over by Big Pharma.
        It is up to the family to provide human care. It is what it is. Profits over People. The only way to get better care is to be able to provide at least $100,000 per year allocated to elder care. Mom is on Medicaid and that provides a lower level of care. Family provides the rest. I take her outside, but getting any facility tom do it would require more staffing and that would reduce profits. Profits win. Always.
        Thank you for your wonderful concern, God Bless and Merry Christmas!!

  • I’ll take issue with you saying that diabetes is avoidable. What happens when your pancreas shuts down and no longer produces insulin, such as mine? It’s not always about junk food or overeating.

  • I have to agree with Rons’ statement. Not all diseases are caused by poor lifestyle choices or bad habits. Idiopathic hypertension (high blood pressure) is an inherited disease and cannot be managed by diet and/or exercise. We are all unique in what may cause us to have to deal with a chronic illness.

  • Be very careful about buying in Mexico. There have been many problems with the Meds having been Fentanyl laced. I know a lady whom gets her blood pressure meds and was tqaken to the hos[ital with a overdose of fentanyl. I don’t trust any Mexican pharmacy.

    • I bet you voted for Hilary!

      • Mary Anne, I don’t know why you would say or write something like that. I was just letting people know what happened to my friend. And NO! I did NOT vote for Hilary. Whom I voted for is none of your or anyone else’s concern. It’s people like you who give real prepper’s a bad rep. Please keep your political opions to yourself. I bet you voted for Joe!

        • Way to put her in her place. What does politics have to do with the subject. JEEZ

  • Also check out (as Bill suggested) nutrient supplements. For example, the body makes an amino-acid derivative called: alpha-Lipoic Acid (ALA). Certain foods contain minimal amounts of ALA, including red meat, carrots, beets, potato. So I tell myself ALA is a combination body-made food-based health supplement. For me that is the best of all worlds, because it is natural. So, what does it do? It is an anti-oxidant, it reduces body inflammation caused by potentially a virus, bacteria, parasite, fungi-allergen, or a toxin (but dead viruses, bacteria, etc. leave their corpses in the body until the immune system (if it is operating well) removes them. These dead corpses are called endo-toxins. If you get too many of them, you get inflammation. And it is really hard to avoid all the pollutions (referring to toxins) in America.
    I have been taking “ na (a sodium salt that helps absorption) R-Alpha Lipoic Acid ” off and on for about five years. I have one leg (my baby club foot leg that had a cast on it for 3 months as a baby) that is a bit shorter than the other one, so periodically if I overwork or whatever – my right ankle goes numb (even when I am sleeping and the numbness creeps up the front bone of my right lower leg–right along the nerve trail. This is called neuropathy. It is a nerve inflammation. Before I took Alpha Lipoic Acid (in a pill form) I had to stretch my legs out widely and drag hard on the floor my inner-right foot in a sideways motion to break up the “freeze” until it relaxed. It took a few minutes of grueling discomfort. When I found ALA it resolved “the freeze and the burn” within 5-10 minutes of swallowing one pill, and the effect lasted all the rest of the night. For years I tried to get my wife (we are both in our 70s) to take ALA. She refused. She didn’t want it to interfere with her prescription meds. But I told her, “Hey, your body makes this and it is in foods you are eating right now, but the dose is so small for what you need.” She took one ALA pill and in ten minutes had a 50% reduction in pain from life-long Rheumatoid Arthritis and bone spurs in hips and neck from Osteoarthritis. She has never had a 50% reduction in pain, at best only a 10% reduction in pain. My view is God created the body to make ALA, as well as some foods to supply very low doses of ALA. Who can out-do what He has done?

    • Amen brother!! That’s why I call all natural substances God’s medicine!!! And as it is proving, the evil that is in the jab to depopulate and develop transhumanism, can be dissolved and defeated by God’s medicines!! Of course! I am happy you and your wife have found some relief from your pain!! Praises to Him!

      • Check out Ivermectin. Com.
        Have one heck of a nice first aid kit.
        Get one of those suction devices for choke victims.
        Get your weight under control and eat/ live a healthy lifestyle.
        Get the books When There Is No Doctor and When There is no Dentist and a really good book on first aid .
        Grow a medical herb garden and learn to forage them
        Get the book series The Lost Herbs
        .

    • I applaud “Improve Your Health” is the first action item of this article!

      Without good health, all else of preparedness can quickly become a moot point.

      I’m blessed with phenomenally good health perhaps related to a long heritage of survival of the fittest which is also a gift from our Creator.

      But, I also do my part of all aspects of healthy living which includes alpha-lipoic acid, and a way long list of supplements and nutritious foods. I’m an occasional bicycle racer with performance better than most professional racers, so I keep fit. I fortunately have no need for any drugs as I haven’t even had cold or flu for decades, but they are a barter item.

      I’m sure these gifts from our Creator aren’t intended to stop with me, so when the rare special one for me finds me, I will start a family for which I’m very prepared to provide and protect in the harsh times to come even expecting our level of preparedness needing to be extreme and still needing miracles from our Creator for which I’ve been seeing in my life already.

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  • Used Ivermectin tablets for the flu i had recently. Nothing was helping with it until i remembered the Ivermectin and in one day it knocked 2/3 of it out. Glad i have it.

    • Hallelujah! As much and hard as they’ve suppressed Ivermectin for its healing properties, the truth is coming out!!! Check out The Wellness Co. products that keep the blood clear from the bioweapons they’re inundating us with!!’

  • I never received my order

  • I have lived in Mexico for 20 years and while there are one or two antibiotics that can be purchased over the counter, they changed the rules a few years ago and now they require a Rx. I buy all my meds here in Mexico and have not had any problems with altered/bad meds. the real plus to buying here is price – at times some of the meds I use are cheaper over the counter than my co-pay would be if I got them from the US.

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