one after the other, just oxycontin, oxycontin, oxycontin. >>my wife passed away right there. >>they're shooting them. they're snorting them. they're selling them. and they're dying. >>this is my son drew; he was 25. (mariana) maureen barrett's son, drew, died of an overdose from prescription pills. >>this is what he was able to get in less than 57 days. these are candies, but i've gone all over the state with these just to show what the pill clinics can do. (mariana) the candies represent the nearly 1,500 pills that drew was prescribed in less than two months by a single doctor at a pain clinic in florida. >>he ended up get 300 xanex, and this is your highest dosage. methadone, 80 miligrams. somas and dilaudid. dilaudid is what they give you before you have surgery, pretty powerful stuff, and the mixture is just deadly. i had major surgery, and i came out with 30 vicotin. this is what i came out with and i had major, major surgery. my son could go in with no illness and come out with that. it was incredible, i mean just the sheer quantity. (mariana) drew's supplier was a impl

i may hire one of these dogs to help me find drugs. >> i can't find any oxycontin, go! he goes around every bar. can you imagine? can you buy a retired drug sniffing dog and then have it with you. when you go to people's houses you watch it walk around and then -- >> i like how this is the only show on fox news that gives entrepreneurial young drug dealers good ideas. >> it is like the chamber of commerce for bad people. will this make kids hate their parents more? >> there is probably a way around this. if you can get the dog and give it a little oxycontin, he will like it. >> i never did drugs or weed or anything when i was in school or young. it started at 25. comedy changed my life. anyhoo if my mom would have brought a dog in there i would have lost respect for her. it is like, i know you have drugs where did you stash them? >> pab, would you ever rent a drug sniffing dog? say your children are in their teens. >> never preemptively. everyone says you have to worry. if i saw a change in my son's behavior or suddenly he was doing badly in school and hanging out with

give me all of your oxycontin. oxycodone and methadone. >> reporter: what miller wasn't expecting was this, a blast of grizzly bear strength mace. she had enough. she unleashed a torrent of the burning chemical. >> i grabbed the pepper stray and i turned and sprayed him in the face. he put his arm up and ran out the door. >> and then she and a co-worker with the bat chased him out of the pharmacy. police nabbed the would be crook right away and said that he confessed to the deed, along with the other two successful robberies. as for her co-workers, they said they are just glad she was ready to get miller a blast of his own medicine. >> she is our own mama bear. you know, she likes to have her bear spray close to her. >> mama bear. she said that she felt she needed to do something because her drugstore is so far away from the nearest police station. she said, i made the choice i needed to make. she said later, everyone has to make their own choice. wicked stuff. >> thanks, ron. >> chasing with a bat after. >> thanks

that's what we see, people takes vicodin or oxycontin and it kills them. hey, the dentist gave it to me, how can it be dangerous. when taken with alcohol or other drugs or by itself can get you in trouble. >> i appreciate that point. look, the status quo is not acceptable. the message needs to be clearer, louder and you don't want to alarm but it's very, very important for doctors to communicate this with their patients. i appreciate you do that and i try to as well. maybe we'll have you back on to talk more. i appreciate your time. >>> coming up, i'm going to take time to show you some of my favorite gadgets. i'm the gadget guy around here. these are new inventions that put you on the road to getting healthier. taste a little more, perfect. reduce lead and other impurities with the advanced filtration system of brita. 8% every 10 years.age 40, we can start losing muscle -- wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and str

we see some people taking oxycontin or vicodin and say, hey, the dentist gave me this. how can we possibly be dangerous? and yet when taken in combination with alcohol or some other drugs or sometimes even by itself can get you in trouble. >> yeah, well, you know, i appreciate that point. look, the status quo is not acceptable. if the message needs to be clearer and it needs to be louder and it needs to be -- you don't want to be alarmist. i think it's very important for doctors to indicate this to their patients, which, again, i appreciate that you do and i try to do as well. maybe we'll have you back on as well. doctor, we appreciate your time. >>> coming up, i'm going to take some time to show you my favorite gadgets. i am the gadget guy around here, but these could potential put you on the road to getting healthy. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. imagine if you could always see life [music] in the best light. every time of day. outdoors, or in. transitions® lenses automatica

over the course of time doctors started prescribing it for anything at all. >> what's this, oxycontintal surgery i got -- that's what i was given for dental surgery. >> soledad, there's another important point here. america right now is so overmedicated that in the past three drug take back days that the dea has had, they have taken back 995,000 pounds of unwanted pills. you have to ask why are 995,000 pounds of excess pills out in the market to begin with. >> mary bono mack joining us this morning. nice to see you. we appreciated last week as well. >> thank you. >>> other stories making headlines this morning. christine romans has that. good morning. >> good morning, soledad. let's go first to syria on the verge of full-scale war. we're getting reports of relentless shelling and loud explosions in the syrian city of homs this morning. witnesses say it's the heaviest bombardment that they've seen all week with now nine deaths reported so far just today. cnn's arwa damon, she has crossed into syria. we're not disclosing her location for her own safety and the safety of her crew. she's

if you get something like an oxycontin or add der ral, that's a controlled substance where you have to get the prescription. about the database, that's beyond my expertise. i would say you need to ask dr. gupta about that. every single prescription that you have had over the last couple of years is with the pharmacy. so if they go to a particular pharmacy and find that whitney houston had this prescription filled at abc, they will tell you every single prescription that they've filled at that particular pharmacy and the same with the doctor. a database, i'm not sure. if there was one, they wouldn't be subpoenaing all of these doctors and pharmacies, zoraida. >> don lemon, thank you. now to susan candiotti, she is back east in newark. what do we know about the service on saturday? >> reporter: well, slowly the plans for it are going forward. this is going to be a private service, a private funeral as well as the burial. we do know this, zoraida. they are expected to be 1500 people packed inside the new hope baptist church, the childhood church of whitney houston. we've seen that time an

. >> my first memory was hanging on the street corner waiting for oxycontin. >> reporter: he's speakingin massachusetts talking about who he really is. how do you define who you are? >> i'm a recovering drug addict. extremely grateful for one day at a time. >> reporter: a basketball town like fall river, massachusetts herren was the answer to all those who dreamed of making it. a 2,000 point scorer at durfee high school, mcdonald's all american. sports illustrated darling before herren started for boston college. >> i was like every other kid, an athlete, went out friday and saturday nights, thinking what high school kids do, i took it one step further than most. a dollar bill handed to me and 18 years old i snorted my first line of cocaine. >> reporter: three failed drug test, a year later his career at boston college was over. but herre nefn landed at denver state, then the celtics. his drug use escalated, turning to deadly overdoses. >> i woke up in the back of the ambulance, the police officer cuffed me and said "my man, you were just dead 30 seconds ago" in the world of addiction y

you go to the doctor and you say, listen, doc, i have a massive migraine headache here, i need oxycontin to kill this pain. does the doctor have your medical history? can he drug test you? >> that's ridiculous. that is given and prescribed for people suffering from a cancer diagnosis. however, a doctor has a moral and ethical responsibility, especially with an individual like miss houston, where it is well documented that she has had a consistent-- >>> moral and ethical. >> legal is going to be different. i think this is distinguishable from dr. conrad murray-- >>> what if it's the same doctor and six pills? >> you are looking at amoxicillan, morazipan, xanax. >> bill: these are tranquilizers -- >> valium and the xanax and the alcohol? if you were a doctor, you would give somebody valium who was a cocaine addict? >> no. vimorality and -- [overlapping dialogue] >> but is it incumbent upon threm to investigate-- >>> yes! i think it is! first do no harm, right?! >> that's their code of ethics. >> bill: right! >> the hippocratic oath. >> bill: there's something called malpractice. >> i agree

as the fact at recently reported the oxycontin epidemic is killing thousands of americans all over thelegal drug available by prescription. also medical marijuana is now legalized in many places and we now have americans legally getting stoned every day on pot. alcohol is legal. an estimated 10% of american adults have problems with booze. so, what exactly does legalizing narcotics bring us? more availability? that's what. whitney houston wanted to kill herself, nobody takes drugs for that long if they want to stay on the planet. she follows in the footsteps of elvis, janice joplin, michael jackson and scores of other entertainment figures. the hard truth is that some people will always want to destroy themselves. there is nothing society can do about it. what the government can do is design programs that make it difficult to sell and use hard narcotics there are countries in the world like singapore where drug abuse if rare. is the singapore authorities find a citizen using drugs that person goes into a facility. it's mandated and stays there for quite some time. of course, the aclu w

, hydrocodone, and three different types of oxymorphone which is similar to the highly addictive oxycontin. >> police made arrests both off and on campus, including at fraternity houses. >>> people are struggling to get out of buried homes in romainia. hundreds of people have died in this storm. temperatures are plunging to 45 degrees below zero. >>> watch out who is behind you in line at the airport. this guy apparently didn't realize he was on camera. police say he took a $6500 rolex watch that another passenger left behind in those little tubs. they watch him put on his jacket, sees the watch in a minute -- wait for it, wait, wait, he sees it. he grabs it. oh, that's a nice watch. and walks away. that happened on january 19 at the ft. lauderdale airport. police believe the man board aid flight to charlotte. they will be talking to people on that flight hoping to catch him. >>> he says i am going to count to ten. he cocked the gun, fired it in the air and put it to my head again. >> that is the voice of arwa damon. she is inside syria where she spoke to an assassin paid to kill civilians

>> oxycontin. >> judge: it's the interaction. >> the new heroin. >> judge: anyway, sound on tape hereat water. >> can't you just say, you know with a? i was wildly speculating and i'm sorry? i shouldn't have said it. it was inappropriate. >> that was not speculation, dan. >> it's not speculation that she may have been pushed under the water. >> judge: who let her slip or pushed her underneath the water? who let whitney houston go under her water? that's a quote. did nancy grace cross the line here? >> judge, headline news should name her the nancy disgrace show. she disgraces two professions. the legal profession and the profession of journalism. every night if you watch her show, she says something that is just wrong, factually wrong, from her own record, she never lost a case. this is represencible what she said. there is zero evidence that whitney houston was pushed under the water and tofutti putt that out there to whitney houston's family and fans is irresponsible. >> judge: no one associated with this investigation has even suggested that they're looking -- that she might have b

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. >> my performance as a boston celtic was waiting on a street corner for oxycontin. >> reporter: heto a group in boston, massachusetts, talking about who he really is. >> how do you define who you are? >> i'm a recovering drug addict, extremely grateful. grateful for one day at a time. >> reporter: in a basketball town like fall river, massachusetts, herren was an answer to all those who dreamed of making t. a 2,000-point score at durfee high school, a darling, all before herren made it to boston college. >> i went out thinking this is what high school kids do, and i just took it one step further than most. >> a dollar bill was handed to me, and at 18 years old i sno d seniori snorted my first line of cocaine. >> but his drug use escalated, turning to deadly overdoses. >> i woke up in the back of an ambulance. the police officer cuffed me and said, my man, you were just dead 30 seconds ago. in the world of addiction, you hate yourself, you know, so escape yourself. so whatever drug is in front of me i'm going to take because i don't like being me. >> reporter: after years of abusing

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objecti oxycontin is very dangerous.ying from opiate overdose than car accidents. >> one final question. why are hypo thyroid problems routinely misdiagnosed as a patient being depressed and treated with antidepressants rather than proper thyroid medications? >> doctors need to be thinking about thyroid problems more often than they are. whenever somebody comes to me and coming in with depression particularly if it is a woman over the age of 50, you have to be thinking about thyroid problems because those are common and cause depression issues. you should be checking for thyroid, vitamin b, b 12 and folate. >> hopefully our viewers or doctors listening and will tell their doctors to check on this. thanks a lot. >> thank you. >> great to have you answer our viewers' questions today. coming up, the dog with a dangerous appetite. meteorologist tom kierein will be back with another check of when temperatures will hit 70 degrees. stay with news4 all afternoon. at [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable and e

give me all your oxycontin, oxycodone, and methadone." >> reporter: what miller wasn't expecting wasst of grizzly bear-strength mace right in the face. beller had had enough. and she unleashed a torrent of the burning chemical. >> i grabbed the pepper spray and turned and sprayed him in the face. and he put his arm up and then ran out the door. >> reporter: then she and a co-worker wielding a baseball bat chased him out of the pharmacy. police nabbed the would-be crook right away. and they say he confessed to the deed. along with the other two successful robberies. as for beller, her co-workers say they're just glad she was ready to give miller a blast of his own medicine. >> she's our little mama bear. you know, she likes to have her bear spray close to her. >> reporter: ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >> and good for her. >> frightened he could have been armed or something. >> got to fight back. apparently you can buy your own bear repellant if you find yourself in a similar situation. it costs about 25 bucks. it's out there. there are different brands of it. but it's kind of sa

she was also megyn, this is important, she had cocaine and oxycontin in her system.own demise. she put into place a lot of these facts that made this happen. did the police -- should he not have done that, could he have ran after her? of course. that would have bench better. but to his credit he saw behind the scenes she was running out to u.s.19, a major highway. he was worried he would get hit by a car if he went after her. he had her handcuffed and she is running away from him after leaving the scene of two hit-and-run accidents. two investigative pure owes have looked at him and cleared the trooper understood the policies that are in place. megyn: he has been cleared internally but not in a court of law. is there an exception to the don't taser if they are handcuffed. he says she was running toward a highway. is that an excuse after the fact? >> that's a cya excuse. how far is a woman going to get handcuffed in the front running. that goes to discipline charges or criminal charges potentially being filed against the officer. they cleared him of that. it won't hav

xanax, oxycontin, and that's causing people to die.y that they are prescribed. we need to put a warning. >> are you also saying that they shouldn't be distributed at all because some people are not clear as to whether their doctor is going to be the one who says, you really don't need this. there are alternatives. or, your doctor is going to be one of the three doctors that you described as not being a good doctor. so doesn't the fda approve all of these medicines hoping that there is a discretion, good judgment of a doctor who is going to prescribe these things? >> yeah. so fredricka, in medicine with the fda, we have schedules that the dea and fda are looking at. there are schedule classes of these medications. schedule 1, 2, 3, and 4674. and what happens is you are dictated by what schedule that drug is in. so there are some schedule drugs that you can prescribe all day long. you can take 180 of these pills per month and do your thing. there are others where you can't give them refills or only prescribe so much of that drug at one t

how about if you're hooked on heroin and oxycontin? takes seboxin. it blocks the receptor.say my mommy doesn't love me enough, my daddy doesn't hug me enough. there are some people that would want to coddle them somewhere. >> and you're saying it begins and ends with self and nothing to do with who might be able to help intervene or what? >> okay. i was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and i never did. she finally came to her senses and divorced me. i was married to another woman for about three weeks when i got drunk and said something unpleasant and she said, i don't know who you think you're talking to, but i'm a school teacher. i have a skill. i don't need anything you have. and to, but i'm a teacher. i deserve every skill i have. and i said, wait a minute, there's this pill called antabuse. and she said, if you let me help you take it every day like a child, then i'll come back. and i've been sober ever since. some of the most interesting people i've ever met i've met at aa meetings. but i tell you this, i stopped drinking bec