see are we there yet tormented on our computers but do it at home right on your own time and maybe percocet online instead of doing it and maybe if you recognize that this isn't something that's going to be very harmful stop legislating it to make it more criminalized all right well now this is kind of public information i could imagine it embarrassing do you think that it could change them into kind of changing their harsh you know stances toward it and pushing the these pieces of legislation well i hope so i think in particular the fact that there are bittorrent being the voice and degrassi the next generation should be a source of embarrassment to them but i don't think in the past we've seen that when congressional members were shown that they were acting hypocritically that it necessarily change them i mean look at people who are say quote unquote pro-family values people who were caught with the d.c. madam or we've been caught in homosexual relationships when when they were very opposed to gay marriage it certainly hasn't changed that maybe they've had to leave office but it doesn't o

he wants percocet in check. michael bloomburg has announced plans to limit supplies of prescription painkillers in new york city's emergency rooms as a way to combat a growing epidemic . they will no longer get three days of vie -- of vie co den. vie caw den. bill is shaken over here. they will use emergency rooms as their primary care doctor. but mate yes, sir isn't buying it. it aimes to keep extra pills from piling up. >> it is 17 days sitting there and some of the kids are going to find them. there raw lot more holdups of pharmacies and people held up and what are they all about? it is not stealing your shaving cream and toothpaste. they want these drugs. >> yes, they want these drugs to help ease their back pain so they can get back on their feet like this young woman. >> that is secondhand pill popping. >> she was having a great time. look at her. >> jedediah. >> she is my ideal woman. >> jedediah, now will bloomberg's plan help you at all? you have a miserable addiction to the pain pills, the reds, the bl

. >> i started smoking weed and led to xanax and percocets and that led to oxycontin. >> jen lex and joe are typical teenagers with a dark past. their drug experiment went awry when they found themselves addicted to oxycontin an openiate that took control of their lives. >> i tried to get clean several times. just recently in april like this past year i started using heroin. >> why did you start on heroin? >> because it was cheaper and i just didn't have enough money for the amount of pills i needed to get high. >> middle class suburban kids who stole pills from their parents medicine cabinets, pull verize the popular pain killer and snort it for an intense high. >> start up shooting it and you are hooked and it grabs ahold of you. >> 20,000 overdose deaths attributed to prescription dug abruise, oxycontin in particular. >> prescription drug abuse as many of you know is now the nation's fastest growing drug problem. >> -year-old david lafer burst into a medford long island pharmacy looking for pain killers have, in his desperation he shot four victims to death execution style over 11

if you take a lot of cold medicines percocet, vicodin the list goes on and on it adds up. you don't realize there's acetaminophen on this. you want to make it worse add alcohol to it and you are done. that's real liver toxicity. abdominal pain nausea and vomiting. it you catch the toxicity in the first 8 hours what they do is doctors would put in and use gastric they wash the stomach and they give you some antidotes. >> charcoal. >> watch your levels and doctor segal what do you do if you think you are getting it? >> you do what he said you go to the emergency room right away. it's less than 2 percent fatal if we get it right away. it is the number one cause of acute liver damage in the united states. it is beating hepatitis now. >> don't mix medication and don't miss medication with alcohol. >> last word. >> as usual. >> meanwhile we are telling you about all of the things you can take with prescription and nonprescription. how about natural remedies. a lot of people want to go that route. the doctors are back with a look at some of the natural remedies to tell you which

think the demanded oxycontin, oxycodone and percocet. they instead grabbed whatever they could. including quantitities of prescription medications. >> whenever we have two armed robberies in one day it's a big deal. >> reporter: both pharmacies have surveillance video of the suspects. no one was injured though police say it's part of a troubling trend. >> we had one last month. there was one in south city. we're working hard to see if there's any connection. we don't want such a problem on going. >> reporter: pharmaceutical robberies are such a concern nationwide. new york police announced they plan to tag some prescription bottles with gps devices to track stolen drugs. reporting live in san francisco. >> a horrible discovery. a man's bloody body was found inside a car trunk. rita williams is in santa rosa where she's learned the name of that dead man. rita. >> reporter: frank, that car with a body stuffed in the trunk was parked across the street from sonoma state university. that's upset some students who just returned from winter break yesterday. >> i didn't know about that.

it is called percocet. >> that allows you to lie there for hours and say this is great, but it is not sleeping. >> so if i film myself sleeping perhaps that would be a solution. drugs are our space program. we no longer go to mars. we have to go to these tiny little planets. >> called? >> called pills. this is what matters to everybody on this planet. we should be encouraging this. >> if pills are planet then lauren's desk is an as straw logical chart. it has the whole milky way scattered across. >> he is still yakking. >> he needs to stay up five or six days and he was like a genius. he balances his heroin with his coke. and apparently he could do it. >> we have this drug. it is called meth. as long as you are okay with losing your teeth. >> we are a family show here, lauren. i know you live in l.a. where hookers run the -- >> oh, okay, yay coke, but with meth i crossed the line. >> illegal drugs are bad. farm suit will cays when used to help make people's lives better it is the space program. that's the point i am making. we should push our pharmaceutical industry the further it sho

. >> reporter: the drug agency wants vicodin to be moved up to the same category as cocaine, percocetill. that's what worries doctors and patients who use it appropriately to control pain. if it's classified as a more dangerous drug, that could drive up costs for makers and doctors, more paperwork. patients could to make more visits to the doctor foe refills, spending more in co-pays. >> we do have a crisis and something needs to be done. >> reporter: balancing use that helps millions of americans in pain against the abuse that leads to this. a recommendation comes tomorrow. david kerley, abc news, washington. >> some action, yes, would seem necessary on this. plus you hear these stories about these pill mills where people just go in and get whatever they need. doctors are like here you go, here you go. it's a scary epidemic. >> it really is. you see that piece with that woman that take 20 pills a day. i mean, you can't function. >> i don't know how she's alive. that's scary. what that must do to your body over time. hopefully some action comes. >> recommendations are expected today.