article_snippet: Carrie Russel, 26, was put in a Japanese prison for possessing Adderall - which is illegal in Japan .
article_snippet: Carrie Russell, 26, was arrested on February 20 after admitting to police that A teacher from Oregon had been sent a stash of Adderall pills in the mail.
article_snippet: The medicine, prescribed by A teacher from Oregon doctor back home, is common in the United States, but banned in Japan.
article_snippet: Russell's mother, a doctor, posted the a three-month supply of the pills to an address in South Korea, from which Russell forwarded Russell's mother, a doctor to A teacher from Oregon home in Nagoya, Japan, according to The Oregonian.
article_snippet: Police tracked Russell down to a restaurant after learning A teacher from Oregon had brought a three-month supply of Adderall pills into the country.
highlights_snippet: Carrie Russell was arrested in Japan on February 20 for possessing pills .
  
highlights_snippet: While Adderall is widely prescribed in the U.S., Adderall is illegal in Japan .
  