you talked about oxycontin. oxycontin is incredibly effective pain killer. it's incredibly addictive and should only be used in the worst pain. but what happens is the family doctor has 40 people sitting in his room every day. gives it to somebody and they say, i feel fine. and he says god, i have a drug that works and then he puts it out there. and the other thing, parents have got to start thinking about locking their medicine cabinets the way 50 years ago they would have locked their liquor cabinet. because kids get these drugs from their parents. >> i understand. you made progress in that regard. >>. >> we are making progress. not making progress in the availability of illegal drugs and the abuse of prescription drugs by kids is going up. but a program like t >>> what's the larger issue behind this? >> the larger issue is, and i have a new book coming out next year, high society. which we increasingly think there is a drug for every ill. if we feel lousy we get a drug to make us feel better. if we can't sleep, we have a drug to help us sleep. if we ache

you talked about oxycontin. oxycontin is incredibly effective pain killer.credibly addictive and should only be used in the worst pain. but what happens is the family doctor has 40 people sitting in his room every day. gives it to somebody and they say, i feel fine. and he says god, i have a drug that works and then he puts it out there. and the other thing, parents have got to start thinking about locking their medicine cabinets the way 50 years ago they would have locked their liquor cabinet. because kids get these drugs from their parents. >> i understand. you made progress in that regard. >>. >> we are making progress. not making progress in the availability of illegal drugs and the abuse of prescription drugs by kids is going up. but a program like t >>> what's the larger issue behind this? >> the larger issue is, and i have a new book coming out next year, high society. we have a country in which we increasingly think there is a drug for every ill. if we feel lousy we get a drug to make us feel better. if we can't sleep, we have a drug to help us sleep

. >> we found drugs, syringes, most all of them were addicted to oxycontin. >> the addiction certainly isn't new. what is new is a rather dramatic price increase of the drug on the secret. one pill went for $40 six months ago. today, that same pill goes for over $100. why? because the manufacturer is trying to stop people from abusing it. people wanting an oxy high crush up the tablets and snort it. >> hand him the pills right now. >> reporter: we saw it a few months ago when we went undercover. >> he just snorted it. >> reporter: the tablets cold oc can also be lick wified and even projected. >> they will heat the bottom of the spoon. >> reporter: so they switched to a new version of the tablet. >> if you try to crush it, it stays together. you can't inject it. >> but the old ones are on the street costing even more. last year, the burglaries were up 18% from 2009. >> it's an epidemic. >> reporter: assistant public defender says it's not the usual suspects. >> good families, good decent kids that i'm hearing were college bound, had everything going on in their lives. >> reporter: but

the main ways to treat is with prescription drugs. 10% prescriptions have gone up for vicodin and oxycontinabout it. the use and prescriptions written for these types of medications has skyrocketed over the past. the biggest issue from the way i see it in the medical community is as physicians, we typically undertreat chronic pain dramatically. we're afraid of making the patient into an addict and afraid of making the patient dependent on this class of medication when, in fact, the principle in treating chronic pain is to use the right dose of a medication that works. i might think it it's a high dose of narcotics but if it works to relieve your pain that is the precise choice. when you talk about narcotics they can be habit-forming so when you talk about someone living with chronic pain they might need to be on these medications indefinitely and the dependence becomes a real problem. >> it's a major concern. there are alternative ways to treat this that are starting to be explored more. what are they and how effective are they? >> a functional mri has to do with brain mapping. we know pain

caller: we depend on oil like weed, oxycontin. how do we check into oil anonymous clinic? biased against the [inaudible] people? guest: i do not think we are biased against them. i spent a lot of time with the palestinians when i was in the state department. our policy of the united states is two nations living side by side peacefully in security and that is not a bias. there has been a lot of comment today about financial aid. we have put a good deal of financial aid into the west bank and helping the palestinians. i think that financial aid has been very well placed. they're building up a civil society institutions, democratic institutions, and help our economy and growing. that is working. that is a foreign-policy success. even though there has not been a resolution between the dispute of the palestinians and israelis, it is more important to build up the governance among palestinians and the details of any agreement. that may come later, it could come tomorrow. you want a sound government and a sound economy. host: alexandria, va., on our line for republicans. go ahead