dr. stephen katz. morning, dr. katz. i recently had an experience hospitalizedho was and in intensive care for two days. doctors couldn't figure out what he had. but he finally, through an appointment with a got thelogist, diagnosis of a rare disease, still disease i. wonder if you have any insight about that disease, or any contact point that might be helpful in helping him get over this. he seems to be doing much better, he's taking prednisone a rheumatologist, so maybe this is not anything au can add here, but it's rare disease and i thought maybe it.had some insight about guest: thank you for the question. you are doing all the right things for your son. sounds like he's moving in the right direction. one of the other i haven'tlities that talked about that all of us at dissemination the of knowledge. and i would encourage you to go nims --ebsite, will findgov, and you that we have information on onset still's disease, and you'll learn a little more in lay language about the disease, the prognosis. we are learning mor

dr. stephen katz. morning, dr. katz.ntly had an experience hospitalizedho was and in intensive care for two days. doctors couldn't figure out what he had. but he finally, through an appointment with a got thelogist, diagnosis of a rare disease, still disease i. wonder if you have any insight about that disease, or any contact point that might be helpful in helping him get over this. he seems to be doing much better, he's taking prednisone a rheumatologist, so maybe this is not anything au can add here, but it's rare disease and i thought maybe it.had some insight about guest: thank you for the question. you are doing all the right things for your son. sounds like he's moving in the right direction. one of the other i haven'tlities that talked about that all of us at dissemination the of knowledge. and i would encourage you to go nims --ebsite, will findgov, and you that we have information on onset still's disease, and you'll learn a little more in lay language about the disease, the prognosis. we are learning more about

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dr. steven katz. journal, live from the national institute of health. at 7:00 a.m. eastern. couple of live events to tell you about tomorrow here on c-span. beginning with the brookings institution for him. -- forum. panelists will include ambassadors from lebanon and iraq. at 3:00 p.m., the heritage foundation focuses on political protests in that is where the -- in venezuela. and how the relations may be affected by the expulsion of diplomats. >> this weekend, american history tv debuts its new series, real america. archival films that take you on a journey into america's past. this week, films on d.c. during world war ii. and women workers during the milled very -- the military buildup of the second world war. >> american industry rolled out -- [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute]

katz, a friend of the family, came over here. he was the one who discovered hoffman. but no indication yet in terms of what made him possibly start using again. >> appreciate it. dr. drew is with us. so obviously you are an addiction specialist. when you look at some of the prescription drugs found in the apartment, what does that tell you? >> four of the medications were withdrawal medications and not under his name. maybe he had taken out a pseudoanymore. i'm fearful he got these medicines from someone trying to get off the heroin and knew something about it if he was administering to himself. he may have got down off it and took a customary dose and it might have been too much. >> i mean, is it likely that he was -- he sought help back when he was 22 years old. can someone stay clear 20 years and start using again? >> they are diseased doing pushups. anyone who will tell you who has had severe addiction, today is the only day they can rely on. >> when you look at the percentages, the use of heroin has gone up hugely if you look at the cdc reports, 70%. the number of o.d.s is going up. you think it is linked to prescription drug use. >> no doubt in my mind. it s