mr. phillip seymour, hoffman did a great job. what he did when he took this heroin is fund mentally, he was committing suicide. he was taking an incredible risk with his life, which he knew all about, yet he went ahead and did it. to your point, it's a particular temptation of musicians and creative folks and drugs have always been, and folks who have a lot of discretional capital and greater access to drugs and that's been very true in this community, you know, and i think it's due to the fact that they have unfulfilled lives for some reason or other to pour these drugs into their system and risk their lives for a high. >> do you remember heath ledger? >> yeah, the joker in batman, i believe. with the same way. listen, i've had friends, one of them in journalism who died after doing drugs. >> what is it about the creative personality, eleanor? >> i think we hear about these overdoses from people who are famous, but there are countless people every day who are dying from heroin overdoses in this country. in reading up on this iss

phillip seymour hoffman. i knew when i saw his portrayal in "mr.g actor was capable of the terrifying menace of the person who an see right into you, unclothing your deepest secret, the fraud in you. here he is doing this to matt damon's "mr. ripley." >> the only one who looks like dickey is you. >> hardly. >> have you done something to your hair? >> is there something you'd like to say, freddy? >> what? >> do you have something you'd like to say? >> i think i'm saying it. >> charlie wilson's war, he's a noncon formist that the higher ups can't see, guy who truly knows how to spy. >> did crystal back up your story that you weren't using? >> just go put out the statement. >> you know what? you never should have been in the same room, congressman. >> goth? >> yeah? >> the swiss make an anti-aircraft gun. >> listen, charlie -- >> .20 millimeter cannon. i read about it. >> i know it. don't forget the limo driver. >> do you mean? >> you took a limo from the casino to the airport. it's easy to track down a limo driver, ask if anything was going on the ba

mr. shrink, thank you for your time. we appreciate it. i think it's very important to talk about what happened to phillip seymour hoffman because it not onlywas him. there are millions of ad i think so fighting this right now as we speak. i think this is such an important topic. there are reports that hoffman had 50 to 70 stamp bags of heroin in his apartment. can you put that in perspective for us? >> it's a tremendous amount of heroin. you know, if he were arrested, he would have been charged for distribution, which is a much different thing than having a small amount for personal use. it's a huge amount, not in the sense of a car load but its way more than any one person would use at any one time. >> how do you get that? >> how do you get that much, that large of an amount? >> yeah. >> you know, i mean it is a commodity. and the drug war is something that we often talk about and we don't really think about it. but it is absolutely very simple economics. itt it's supply and demand. somebody like phillip seymour hoffman would have the money and resources to be able to procure whatever he wanted. it isn't that difficult. this is new york c