Syringes and needles in NY?

osqe

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I am here in NY for work for the next few months. I tried using the “ESAP” program, as buying any amount of syringes and needles from a pharmacy without a prescription is legal, yet 0 pharmacies I've called or walked into will allow me to without a prescription. No medical supply stores near me sell them. Amazon has region-blocked me, including on cheap “Shatong” needles and cheap luer locks. I tried an order on bacteriostaticwater, farrislabs, and gpzmedlab as they don’t check for a medical license or a prescription, but I can't get past checkout without a site error.
Other sites like syringeneedledepot have nothing in stock of what I need.
How do people get syringes and needles in this god-forsaken state? Is it just a Long Island thing with the pharmacies? I don't care about the price at this point, if a place has 1ml luer locks, 25g 1”nipros, and 29-31g insulin syringes in stock or you know where to go here in NY any help would be appreciated.
 
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I am here in NY for work for the next few months. I tried using the “ESAP” program, as buying any amount of syringes and needles from a pharmacy without a prescription is legal, yet 0 pharmacies I've called or walked into will allow me to without a prescription. No medical supply stores near me sell them. Amazon has region-blocked me, including on cheap “Shatong” needles and cheap luer locks. I tried an order on bacteriostaticwater, farrislabs, and gpzmedlab as they don’t check for a medical license or a prescription, but I can't get past checkout without a site error.
Other sites like syringeneedledepot have nothing in stock of what I need.
How do people get syringes and needles in this god-forsaken state? Is it just a Long Island thing with the pharmacies? I don't care about the price at this point, if a place has 1ml luer locks, 25g 1”nipros, and 29-31g insulin syringes in stock or you know where to go here in NY any help would be appreciated.
Maybe try ebay? Thats crazy you can't find that stuff without a perscription. I am sensing a business idea here...

Is it illegal to obtain those things without perscription or is it some kind of gray area regulation type stuff?
 
Maybe try ebay? Thats crazy you can't find that stuff without a perscription. I am sensing a business idea here...

Is it illegal to obtain those things without perscription or is it some kind of gray area regulation type stuff?
It is legal to purchase and obtain any amount from a pharmacy, hospital, or other providers in NY, but no pharmacist has been willing to do this.
I even checked a directory from 2019 that shows ESAP-registered pharmacies. I called 3 and went to 4 in person yesterday, all said they weren't participating in the program.
 
gray area regulation type stuff
Kind of. It is treated as selling a controlled substance if you sell sterile syringes and sterile needles without being a pharmacist or healthcare provider in the state but you can possess them and purchase them legally without a prescription.
The issue becomes where to get them lol
 
I tried an order on bacteriostaticwater, farrislabs, and gpzmedlab as they don’t check for a medical license or a prescription, but I can't get past checkout without a site error.
Both Farris and GPZ should work. What kind of site error are you encountering? Browser or anti-tracking plugin related, or is there an error message showing NY as the issue?

A few others:
Medexsupply
Medical-and-lab-supplies
Diamedstore
Peptide-test
Adwdiabetes (ymmv)
 
Both Farris and GPZ should work. What kind of site error are you encountering? Browser or anti-tracking plugin related, or is there an error message showing NY as the issue?

A few others:
Medexsupply
Medical-and-lab-supplies
Diamedstore
Peptide-test
Adwdiabetes (ymmv)

Alot of websites cancel orders to certain states. It's a state law. Adw is one of them.
 
I am here in NY for work for the next few months. I tried using the “ESAP” program, as buying any amount of syringes and needles from a pharmacy without a prescription is legal, yet 0 pharmacies I've called or walked into will allow me to without a prescription. No medical supply stores near me sell them. Amazon has region-blocked me, including on cheap “Shatong” needles and cheap luer locks. I tried an order on bacteriostaticwater, farrislabs, and gpzmedlab as they don’t check for a medical license or a prescription, but I can't get past checkout without a site error.
Other sites like syringeneedledepot have nothing in stock of what I need.
How do people get syringes and needles in this god-forsaken state? Is it just a Long Island thing with the pharmacies? I don't care about the price at this point, if a place has 1ml luer locks, 25g 1”nipros, and 29-31g insulin syringes in stock or you know where to go here in NY any help would be appreciated.

Make another Amazon account using your temp NY address.
 
Browser or anti-tracking plugin related, or is there an error message showing NY as the issue?
I tried on my phone and laptop. All the sites I tried are Shopify-based and I looked into it. I was able to get shipping rates but if a store blocks shipping to your location I shouldn't even be able to see that. It just throws a generic error. I tried different payment methods to see if that was the issue but no charges or attempted charges went through. There might be an issue on my end.
 
I tried on my phone and laptop. All the sites I tried are Shopify-based and I looked into it. I was able to get shipping rates but if a store blocks shipping to your location I shouldn't even be able to see that. It just throws a generic error. I tied different payment methods to see if that was the issue but no charges or attempted charges went through. There might be an issue on my end.

Use MLS
GPZ should work tho
 
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