Can drug dogs smell pills?

Drug dogs will only alert officers to a scent when they are given the order to search, to my understanding. I was told that drug dogs in airports smell drugs for a huge portion of the day but don't go crazy barking or give the cops their signal because they have not been told to search for anything. This seems to be true. read more

"They can smell anything they're trained to smell", not sure if drug dogs would be trained to sniff out drugs you can get a prescription for due to the amount of people who use adderall/adhd medication legitamately. read more

Drug dogs, also known as narcotic dogs, or drug detection dogs, are used by some organizations to aid in the detection of certain types of drugs and drug paraphernalia. read more