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newshour health correspondent betty ann bowser has our book conversation. sig mund freud and william hall stead were two medical revolutionaries. freud the well known father of psychoanalysis, hallstead the less well known father of modern surgery. but just beneath the black and white success there's another story. both men shared a blinding addiction to cocaine. in a new book called "an anatomy of addiction" a pediatrician tells how the two tried to ward off self-destruction in the quest for knowledge. we caught up with the author at johns hopkins hospital in baltimore. where hallstead connected some of his greatest work. thank you, doctor, so much for doing this. >> thanks for having me. >> what was the connection between sigmund freud and william hallstead. >> they both were contemporaries. they never met or at least i can't find any evidence. but their lives were braided together. they were bound together by a fascination with cocaine. and several medical papers that some they each wrote or some they read about the latest, newest miracle drug of their e

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and the president's idea for tackling a part of the problem.ff newshour health correspondent betty ann bowser reported on the worries earlier this year and has our update.es >> reporter: in the next few days it should be high enough for us to do the.... >> reporter: across the country doctors and patients f are struggling to get theiren hands on some essential prescription drugs in dangerously short supply.ar the list includes 178 drugs. antibiotics, chemotherapy drugs used to kill cancers and medicines that save lives in the emergency room. today president obama signed an executive order giving the food and drug administration more tools to police thei problem. >> part of this we're going toan require the drug companies.or let us know earlier about the potential for drug shortagesqu so that we can respond successfully. we're going to make sure that t if we find out that prices are r being driven up because shortages are being made worse by manipulations of companies or distributors that we are making sure that we stop those practices. >> reporter: the president also gave fda and the departme