Anchor: ADDERALL.
PRESCRIBED FOR ATTENTION DEFICIT
HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER.
BUT SOME LOCAL KIDS ARE ABUSING
IT.
MOST OF IT HAS NOTHING TO DO
WITH ADD TRYING TO STAY UP
LONGER AND AWAKE.
Anchor: POPULAR WITH
COLLEGE KIDS NOW THE DRUG MAKES
THE WAY TO LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS
AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS.
Anchor: ADDERALL IS USED TO
HELP WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT
DISORDER.
MANY CASES WITH PROPER DOCTOR
AND PARENTAL SUPERVISION IT
WORKS WELL.
Anchor: AS DEFENDER KAREN
DREW SHOWS US, SOMETHING GOING
ON IN LOCAL SCHOOLS THAT PARENTS
DO NOT REALIZE IS HAPPENING.
Reporter: ADDERALL IS USED
PRIMARILY TO TREAT SYMPTOMS OF
ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY
DISORDER OR ADHD.
BUT MANY WERE PANTS DO NOT
REALIZE THERE IS A SECRET WORLD
OF ADDERALL USE GOING ON WITH
OUR CHILDREN, AND USERS AND
ABUSERS ARE GETTING YOUNGER AND
YOUNGER.
MANY TIMES USING THE DRUG
WITHOUT DOCTOR SUPERVISION.
WE HAVE ALL HEARD THE PHRASE IT
IS TOUGH TO BE A KID THESE DAYS.
SO MUCH TO BALANCE.
SCHOOL.
SPORTS.
HOMEWORK.
CLUBS.
ALL WHILE TRYING TO GET GOOD
GRADES.
WELL, NOW THERE IS SOMETHING
GOING ON IN OUR LOCAL HIGH, EVEN
MIDDLE SCHOOLS THAT MOST PARENTS
ARE NOT AWARE OF AND THEY
SHOULD.
THEIR CHILD'S HEALTH COULD BE
AT-RISK.
IT IS ALMOST IN EVERY SCHOOL
WE HAVE INVESTIGATED.
Reporter: THAT'S SCOTT
ROBLE FORENSIC EXPERT HIRED
DOZENS OF TIMES TO INVESTIGATE
LOCAL SCHOOLS FOR THINGS LIKE
THEFT AND DATA BREACHES.
WE ARE ASKED TO CHECK THE
COMPUTERS, CELL PHONES, OF THE
TEACHERS, AND SOME OF THE
STUDENTS SOMETIMES.
AND THE PARENTS ALWAYS GIVE
PERMISSION FOR THE STUDENTS TO
IMAGE CELL PHONE.
Reporter: WHILE DOING THOSE
INVESTIGATIONS HE RECENTLY
STUMBLED ALONG SOMETHING
DISTURBING.
MASSIVE AMOUNT OF STUDENTS
USING ADDERALL TO GET THROUGH
THE DAY OR STUDY.
Reporter: HOW IS ROBLE ABLE
TO DETECT THAT?
WE MAKE IMAGES OF THE DEVICES
DURING THE IMAGE, DURING THE
REVIEW AND INVESTIGATION THAT'S
WHEN WE FIND INFORMATION ABOUT
ADD DERVOLUME AND STUDENTS USE.
Reporter: WHO ARE BIGGEST
USERS AND ABUSERS?
YOU MAY BE SURPRISED.
A AND B STUDENTS THAT ARE
POSSIBLY IN NATIONAL HONOR
SOCIETY.
AND THEY ARE USING ADDERALL TO
STAY AWAKE.
TO STUDY LONGER.
TO THINK CLEARER.
Reporter: SO HOW ARE KIDS
GETTING THE DRUG?
ONE OF TWO WAYS.
ACCORDING TO WHAT HE DISCOVERED
GOING THROUGH THOUSANDS OF
E-MAILS TEXTS AND MESSAGES.
AND IT IS VERY EASY FOR THEM
TO GET SCRIPTS FROM DOCTORS.
MESSAGES BACK AND FORTH FROM
STUDENTS SAYING HERE IS HOW YOU
DO IT.
THIS IS WHAT YOU TELL THE
DOCTOR.
Reporter: ANOTHER OPTION.
BUYING ADDERALL FROM OTHER
STUDENTS THAT HAVE A
PRESCRIPTION.
AS THE -- THOSE STUDENTS ARE
TAKING ADDERALL OTHER STUDENTS
IN SCHOOL SEEM TO CATCH ON.
MOST OF IT HAS NOTHING TO DO
WITH DDD.
TRYING TO STAY UP LONGER AND
AWAKE.
Reporter: BECAUSE OF
PRIVACY ISSUES FORENSIC EXPERT
CANNOT DISCLOSE SCHOOLS ADDERALL
PROBLEM BUT SAID THE ISSUE IS IN
EVERY SCHOOL HE INVESTIGATED IN
METRO DETROIT.
THERE IS A LOT OF PRESSURE TO
HAVE GOOD GRADES.
Reporter: BUT NOT ONLY
ISSUE HE FOUND DURING THE
INVESTIGATION.
AFTER STUDENTS TOOK ADDERALL
HARD FOR THEM TO FALL ASLEEP.
SO THEY STARTED TO USE MARIJUANA
TO RELAX.
BASED ON TEXT MESSAGES WE
WERE READING MORE AFRAID PARENTS
WILL FIND OUT ABOUT PRESCRIPTION
PILLS THAN MARIJUANA.
Reporter: ADDERALL IS
AMPHETAMINE THAT MEANS IT CAUSES
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, HIGH HEART
RATE.
ANXIETY.
AND IT CAUSES INSOMNIA.
Reporter: DR. FRANK
MCGEORGE SAID THERE IS A CONCERN
WITH ADDERALL IF STUDENTS ARE
TAKING IT WITHOUT A
PRESCRIPTION.
ADDERALL IS INTERESTING, WITH
PEOPLE WITH ADD IT DOESN'T CAU
HYPERACTIVITY.
WITH PEOPLE WITHOUT ADD IT
CAUSES OVER STIMOPERATION AND
HYPERACTIVITY.
ADDERALL CAN CAUSE PSYCHIATRIC
PROBLEMS IF IT IS GIVEN TO THE
WRONG PERSON.
THAT'S WHY THIS FORENSIC
EXPERT SPEAKS OUT.
HE WANTS TO SHARE WHAT HE HAS
FOUND.
IT IS A DIFFICULT
CONVERSATION.
BECAUSE WE WERE NOT THERE
ORIGINALLY TO LOOK FOR ADDERALL.
USE IT FOR ANOTHER REASON.
Reporter: HOPING PARENTS
AND SCHOOL OFFICIALS WILL KNOW
WHAT TO LOOK FOR.
TO SPOT THE GROWING TREND THAT
IS PUTTING KIDS HEALTH AT RISK
FOR GOOD GRADES.
KAREN DREW DEFENDERS.
Anchor: I HAD NO IDEA THIS
WAS THAT WIDE SPREAD.