here's abc's deborah roberts. >> reporter: youtube is full of confessions of people who dropped weight from gastric bypass surgery and then found themselves drinking heavily. >> i'd start and pour myself a glass of wine, finish it, and then more. >> when i woke up, i was still pretty drunk. >> you have to have an addictive personality to really become a morbidly obese person. >> reporter: singer wilson was drinking up to ten martinis a day. >> i was getting drunk very fast and i was getting sober very fast. and it was frightening. it was frightening. >> reporter: andrew kahn knows that feeling, after his bypass, he, too, found himself losing control to alcohol. >> i started drinking, and it was the first time in my life i was drinking heavily that i thought i didn't have control over myself. >> reporter: now, a new study out today that may offer explanation. according to the journal of the american medical association more than 1 in 10 gastric bypass patients have become alcoholics after two years after the surgery. >> essentially what a gastric bypass does to alcohol is similar to wha

here is abc's deborah roberts. >> reporter: adorable. priceless.t, it's a treasured and joyous sound. their child's laughter. but for a rare number of children, laughter can signal a heartbreaking future. >> the giggling when he was young was such an endearing type of a giggle. until we realized he was giggling at inappropriate times. >> reporter: 9-year-old keagan's parents say the mysterious giggle began when he was just a toddler. you thought what? >> he's enjoying himself. >> what's wrong with giggling? >> reporter: something was wrong. a neurologist said his bizarre laughter wasn't funny at all, but potentially dangerous. he was having seizures. >> i couldn't understand how they could call these seizures. he's not convulsing. he's not on the floor like everybody thinks of a seizure. >> reporter: keagan was diagnose noelsed with a form of epilepsy. he's not alone. in toronto, 7-year-old mateo is hit by landing seizures up to six times a day. mri scans reveal the cause for both boys. a small non-cancerous lesion buried deep inside their brains.

here's deborah roberts from "20/20." >> jennifer, janet, valerie, kirstie.ing their every pound, it's no longer that weight loss is associated with women. until now. >> i know some of you guys are thinking that weight watchers is just for women. >> reporter: yep. that's charles barkley. manly man. basketball powerhouse. and weight watchers spokesperson. the sports star who was once known as the round mound of rebound, has slimmed down some 45 pounds since going on the program. he sat down with me to talk about it. >> we're trying to reach the male demographic. >> reporter: there hasn't been a lot of men in general with these programs. why do you think? >> for men and weight, it's a taboo sugge taboo subject. we don't talk about being overweight. we joke about it. it's hard to tell a friend, hey, man, you need to lose some weight. >> reporter: as the first male spokesperson for weight watchers, barkley maintains the program lets you be a heman while being healthy. >> pizza, steak, meatballs. we don't want to be without them. and with weight watchers, we don't

and abc's deborah roberts has been looking into it closely. >> reporter: people have been asking aboutway to curb their appetite, to finally drop that weight for good. some women insist they have now found it. like so many women, 34-year-old crystal townsend had long struggled with her weight. >> i was a sad person most of the time. i am blessed with a beautiful family. but there was -- i was not happy with myself. >> reporter: at 229 pounds, she was at her wits' end. until she came to metairie, louisiana, where women who want to slim down a bit have a little secret. his name is dr. tom lavin. >> you ready? >> reporter: there are women who are calling you a hero, a god send. >> that's kind of crazy. >> reporter: dr. lavin, the developer of a new weight loss procedure. >> it's for people who want to lose 25, 30, 50 pounds. it's a different group of people than we approach in bariatric university. >> reporter: everything's done through the mouth, using an endoscope. surgical tools make the stomach slightly smaller. and get this. it's outpatient. too good to be true? crystal lost a what h

attorney general robert spagnletti, laura richards and deborah latham. >>> the d.c. council also passed a $9.4 billion budget. it includes back pay for city employees who were furloughed for four days and funds to double the number of traffic cameras across the district. those cameras are already the source of much controversy too. so cumming up later this hour, we are talking with lon anderson about that very issue. >>> another big story. the metropolitan washington airports authority board of directors will take a pivotal vote today on whether to keep a union-friendly contract for phase two of the silver line. the project labor agreement ensures certain wages, working conditions, bars, strikes and provides flexible work scheduled. opponents have argued the pla violates virginia's right to work law. both governor bob mcdonnell and supervisors in loudoun county have threatened to withhold pledged funds in the incentive is not removed. the pla has been in place for the first phase of the silver line. >>> police are still on the hunt this morning for i man who ran from