adhd. >> there are millions of adults out there who have adhd and don't know it and it's ruining theirareers. >> with education, medication, and by exercising his mind and body, robert found the clarity he and his wife desperately needed. >> i was able to focus on things more as opposed to leaving projects unfinished. >> the diagnosis was able to help us connect. >> reporter: now rob shares his own experience to help others struggling with adhd. >> i think there's a tremendous amount of comfort in knowing that you're not alone. >> every marriage is a work in progress and i think that we've come a real long way. >> dr. hallowell is author of "married to distraction" restoring intimacy and strengthening your marriage in an age of interrupgs. he also has add. melissa orlov is the author of "the adhd effect on marriage." and she has a personal relationship with adhd she will talk about. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> first let's break it down again. attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. people have issues with distraction or both. how does that impact on a marriage? >

younger kids diagnosed with adhd are twice as likely to use ritalin.ut 4.5 million kids have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. >> and jeff ranieri is here with a look at how things are faring outside. >>> comfortable, pleasant. i know some of you want the heat but no luck in our seven-day forecast. it will continue down as we look ahead. that has been good for the fire danger in the bay area. but it doesn't always take hot temperatures to get red flag fire warnings. in the sierra, due to gusty winds there's a red flag fire warning if you're traveling that way. be cautious and listen to the early-morning hours likely extend tlud tomorrow as winds will be gusting 20 to 40 miles an hour and humidity values in the teens. here's the pleasant temperatures across the bay area. should be in the low 90s this time of the year for a lot of east bay. 79 degrees and 74 in san jose. should be in the mid 80s and 70s top low to mid k 60s through out portions of the peninsula and north bay. the fog is holding off at the coastline but it will

because all children are not being appropriately diagnosed with real adhd, where these medications can be very, very helpful. dr. clark? we also have the notion of the sharing, the earlier point made by dr. krantz in terms of people sharing the medication. you get the drugs from friends or family. there's a cultural thing that somehow sharing your medication is permissible even though the person who's getting the medication is not using it for a therapeutic purpose. when you add the number of people who get it free from friends and family, plus the ones who take it from their medicine cabinet or who buy it from friends and family, it's 70 percent. so we are talking here a cultural phenomenon. we know about the internet. it turns out there are minority people who get their drugs from the internet. we know about drug dealers. it turns out a minority of the people get their drugs from drug dealers. we know about doctors who are not acting in good form, but a minority of people get their drugs from those. so in the aggregate, only 30 percent of the misuse of prescription drugs come from, s

. >>> two studies show almost a million children may have been misdiagnosed with having adhd. researchers say those children did not have real behavior problems but were the youngest students in the class. in fifth and eighth grades, the youngest students were more than twice as likely to use ridilin to control adhd. >>> one of the new features is expected to -- last month, it included language describing a location feature. >>> hp is purchasing a security software. it will run as a stand alone business but plans to intergrate the company to its division. >>> thousands of bay area people hope they have what it takes. >> thousands waited before the sun came up, all hoping to be the next american idol, we'll take you to the idol stop in san francisco coming up. >>> pretty cool event and pretty cool temperatures, are clinging right now to the bay area coastline. mark tamayo is coming up next with your bay area forecast. >>> an teenager is killing after an accidental shooting in front of his little brother. we're learning from police about the investigation. >>> more details from

this morning on "today's health," the overdiagnosis of adhd.e university of notre dame found that around 1 million children may have been misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. nbc's chief medical editor dr. nancy synderman is here with details. >> hi, meredith. >> how does that happen? >> it happens for a couple of reasons. one, there's a big push to get kids into school early. so a lot of times the youngest kids in a class don't have the adaptation skills and the social skills, so one of my friends says, if you have a 5-year-old in a class with a bunch of 6-year-olds, that 5-year-old may be okay academically but he's going to be the last one on the bus. that's the child who might not be able to pay attention, be impulsive, and then bing, get that diagnosis. >> research showed that in kindergarten the youngest kids in kindergartners were 60% more likely to be diagnosed than the older kids are. >> and there may be over 1 million children misdiagnosed with this label just because of that. so any time you see a huge increase

againstook at children -- if we look at children with adhd, if a child is exposed to lead in childhoodabout a 2.5 in creased risk. if they are exposed to high levels of both tobacco and led, they are over eight times more likely. this idea at looking at interactions is quite important. it seems to me that we do know enough to take action and develop regulations. even if we develop these regulations, there will be plenty of all of us to do. we will not be out of work. although about would be wonderful. -- although that would be wonderful. we need to act on the evidence that we have. it does not mean that each new chemical has to be studied to death. there is still quite a bit that needs to be done to look at these new emerging chemicals. some of them are acting as in the credit destructors. -- in the current -- endocrine disruptors. >> you mentioned the buyout markers. >> that is extraordinarily important. we can take explicit measures of exposures that may occur over pregnancies, for example, at sold during the cincinnati hold steady, -- exquisite as an accurate measures. look at those

. >> somebody said she was misdiagnosed with adhd and was given some kind of medication for that, that'm just throwing that out there. >> okay. >> okay. actually, her people are probably throwing that out there. >> yeah. you know, you go buy groceries yesterday and sit there and read some of the magazines? [ laughter ] >> no. i have been talking to elizabeth! [ laughter ] >>> 5:26. a parachuting mishap for a u.s. army team in texas. this was caught on tape. >> the golden knights performing at a texas rangers ballgame in arlington, take a look. whoops! member of the team there getting stuck on one of the flagpoles on top of the -- he's fine, don't worry. he got down. but do you know how much ribbing he is going to get? >> oh, yeah. >> he is going to see this video for the rest of his life and his buddies will never let him live this down. he is going oh, geez do i really have to go back down there? >> does he give a wave? now he is going to come down and say, yeah, i meant to do that. [ laughter ] >>> 5:26. coming up in the next half hour, some new rules in technology that will give ped

if your child is the youngest in his or her class, more likely to be labelled with adhd.esearchers found youngest kids in their grades are 60% more likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder than the oldest children. the study could complicate parents' decision when to start kids in kindergarten. more identity thieves using card skimmers. local authorities have found 11 of those devices criminals put into credit or debit car readers. they steal your car's info and put it on cards for criminals to use. skimmers have been found. the country's most famous party crashers are back. "the washington post" reveals they got a u.s. park police escort to a party. but their show made it look like a different agency. an episode of the real housewives of d.c. made it look like salahi got d.c. police escort. the show's producers say it was bad editing that made it look that way. u.s. park police have not responded when asked why they were escorting the salahis. opens up another can of worms there. links at our website, abc7news.com. look under the must reads ta

we're hearing she was misdiagnosed as having adhd one of the most shocking things is they're saying she'sptoms. she's not addicted to anything. >> reporter: in fact, it's believed that the prescription lohan took for misdiagnosed attention deficit disorder may have caused some of her problems. her estranged father is happy she may have kicked one of her habits but still think she needs long-term treatment. >> it's his understanding that lindsay has gotten off the prescription drugs. that was his number one concern. >> reporter: lohan walked away from her 90-day jail sentence after just two weeks yet experts cautioned against a quick fix since the actress is in this mess after being arrested for drunk driving and cocaine possession. >> what's important in drug and alcohol treatment isn't necessarily how long they stay in treatment in a residential setting but that they continue their treatment with a full commitment after they leave. >> lindsay! >> reporter: being tabloid fodder is likely to pay off for lohan. she's reportedly been offered bz 1 million to talk about her troubled past. but

the kids in elementary school, the drugs being prescribed for adhd, properly used, they can be good. what happens is, kids sell them and share them with friends. they are the most abused. host: atlanta on the republican line. guest: i think you are being a little off about what you are saying about white americans. they abuse methamphetamine more than any other drug. you are not saying about european-americans going to lower class schools to buy drugs. comment on that. one last thing. wouldn't you agree that the people that are put in jail because of selling drugs are giving longer sentence if you are a minority than if you are a european american from a better class school. guest: quickly, meth and cocaine and herroin while they get a lot of headlines are a tiny part of the problem. the drug that does the most damage by far for kids whether european, whites or blacks is alcoh alcohol. there's nothing close. the second one is marijuana. it's dangerous, 10 times stronger than it was in the 1970s. we have more teens in treatment for marijuana than for use of all other substances combin

. -- disorders such as adhd or autism. it in the case said exposures to exceedingly low levels are risk factors for intellectual abilities and executive functions. executive functions are those things that distinguish more clearly from other animals. nineveh's of the sitting here today if we did not have a good executive functions. this is important. we know that there are major risk factors for behavior problems such as adhd. it can elevate a trousers for violent criminal behavior. it can diminish their ability to country to society. we have learned by new toxins. there are a host of new chemicals that are routinely found in pregnant women and children. this includes flame retardants, pesticides, and airborne pollutants. they are associated in early studies of behavior problems. the evidence is not as conclusive as some of the more established toxins. much of the research was from of the children's centers in collaboration with the center for disease control. i want to share a few highlights of the impairment of health ce