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Adult ADHD: Personality Type Or Medical Problem?

In honor of national ADHD awareness day, Larry Mantle takes a careful look at the problem of adult attention deficit disorder. More adults than ever before are being diagnosed and prescribed drugs for ADHD. People who used be known a procrastinators or scatterbrains are now being diagnosed with a medical problem. But where does one draw the line between normal forgetfulness and disorganization, and attention deficit disorder? Larry Mantle talks with Dr. David Feifel, founder and director of the Adult ADHD Program at the University of California-San Diego Medical Center, and with San Francisco therapist Lew Mills who has ADHD himself. For more information about adult or childhood ADHD go to www.chadd.org.