This is gonna be a hot take, but fuck it...

This is 100% on them !

People nowadays travel internationally expecting to be treated with the same rights they are afforded from their home country. Anyone that travels with prescribed medication should know that you need to have some paperwork available to show local authorities. This will not be taught to you. There is no reason for you school to teach you about international travel restrictions. there is no reason for your doctor or pharmacist to assume that you will be traveling to other countries.

Before going abroad, you should always educate yourself on local customs, policies, and laws. Your failure to do so is on you, and you only. ADHD medication is heavily regulated in most countries. In some countries you are not even allowed to transport them in anything other than the prescribed bottle.

Traveling to an Eastern European country with amphetamines without a copy of your prescription is just plain stupid. And then trying to use a pharmacy receipt... That wouldn't pass here either.

This, to me, is plain entitlement. And then, they contact the news to try and gather sympathy for their stupidity.

Last quote of the article:

"And I really hope that more is done from the government to help."