Can you bring medication to Vietnam?

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allowed, within limits Narcotic/addictive medication (thuốc gây nghiện): up to a 7-day supply per the accompanying prescription's dosage, carried without needing a separate export/import permit. Psychotropic drugs and precursor-containing medication (thuốc hướng thần, tiền chất): up to a 10-day supply. Combination medications containing narcotic, psychotropic, precursor, toxic or banned substances together: up to a 30-day supply. Exceeding these thresholds requires an export/import permit. A copy of the prescription and medical records, certified by a healthcare organization or bearing a signature/stamp, must accompany the medication. These figures are extremely well-established and consistently repeated across many independent Vietnamese sources, including a Vietnam Customs regional office (kv17.customs.gov.vn) page titled exactly on this topic — but that page (like most Vietnamese customs.gov.vn pages throughout this project's research) is JS-rendered and its body text couldn't be directly extracted, so the specific figures here are search-engine-corroborated rather than read verbatim from a primary source. The exact governing circular/decree number is also genuinely unresolved: one commonly-repeated attribution to Circular 19/2014/TT-BYT Art. 17 turned out to be a misattribution (that article is about export/import licensing procedures, not traveler carry limits) when checked directly, and neither of that circular's two known successors (20/2017/TT-BYT, 18/2026/TT-BYT) contain the traveler provision either — treat the day-supply figures as reliable, the specific legal citation as unconfirmed.

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