we know no one week on it was in rehab or axis committee. i'm looking into this issue and uncertainty i've asked them to have a committee hearing should take place before the senate for the decisions as far as i'm concerned. wednesday's committee said think will be closely watched. all call him our team and he's twenty eight government ministers where represent ireland in twenty four countries amanda was on st patrick's day the colonists that has set the government has raised concerns with the organizers of the new york parade of the current restrictions on gay and lesbian groups with a minty lowest education participation in the event was important. the greening of famous landmarks around the world. now assume a new feature for a national holiday. soaked to the dispatching of ministers across the globe to represent the country and promote trade the summit meeting confirmed that the peace that is making his empty dish were shipped to america the coalition is heading to france so washed up their ministerial colleagues. what communion is headi

rehab companies. the agency expects to report and the pay of senior managers and all section thirty nine agencies by the end of march the boy fold the excess the console in the streets in many instances is likely to fall in the range of benefits available so it's good to go until you lose votes. boy they were expecting the typical publications the rehab group received almost six million euro from the state since nineteen ninety seven to help the promoters of private charter from the breeze. but the scheme will cease in two years' time. according to the department of justice and equality. the decision was further info. my concern that the scheme did not represent its usefulness and did not intend to but effective fundraising costs but the turkeys benefiting from the scheme. the committee was told today that we had to cancel it has thirty five million euro on deposits in banks. firm of hours thirteen years. air passengers faced disruption next month that's just too scared to notions of industrial action

. >> stephen: so instead of going to jail, you go to rehab. >> so, well, rehabs are going to love thist in rehabs. >> you should invest in rehab because the biggest new admission now, and it surpasses cocaine and alcohol and meth am fit means is marijuana, believe it or not. >> stephen: really. >> invest in that and invest in marijuana, will you make out in both respects, yes. >> stephen: do you smoke pot, you don't do substance abuse any more. did you smoke pot. >> the kind of marijuana that is available today was available back when i was trying it, i could have eaten it because it's these edibles that-- because hi asthma, i moved on to other things to get high. i didn't smoke-- . >> stephen: wait a second, wait a second. so if pot is illegal then maybe would you have stopped with pot. >> i might have stopped with pot but then i wouldn't have finally realized that i had a problem because marijuana would have kept me on the slow train to nowhere a lot longer than cocaine or alcohol. where it's pretty hard after a while to ignore the fact that you have an addiction. but marijuana, you

medicare pays for rehab only for people admitted to a hospital as inpatients for three or more days, not if they were classified as observation status. it's what happened to m.j., under observation with a broken leg, and now saddled with a $28,000 rehab bill. >> the whole thing is so outrageous, and it's not right. >> this is not something you learn in medical school. and it's really an administrative arbitrary decision. >> reporter: this doctor from harvard school of public health says there are times when it makes sense to label a patient under observation, when someone's having chest pain, for example. but most of the time he says it's not a medical decision, it's a financial one. >> administrators who have to manage billing issues, they're the ones who end up teaching doctors when to try to use observation status. >> reporter: wait. the people that are in charge of billing? >> yes. >> reporter: are doctors feeling under pressure? >> yes. so i think there's very clear pressure on doctors from the hospital to make determinations in a certain way so they will get paid for that hospi

would want to know more information when you come back to do the formal presentation about got the rehab and also the inlaw unit of question and then the zoning issues because i do think that it would make... >> what is the zone issue? >> it is zoned for 1, 2, 3, you know? and you know the burden of this and it is not cost effective to build, but with that property is zoned for. and i think that behind the ocean view and then all along, into, baby you and in this valley, it is a different kind. >> a new building that is going in. >> and the existing buildings too, but if you do got the rehab and so if you are saying that the it would not trigger this. >> major alterations is defined through the green building code, and i don't know if there is someone here who is more knowledgeable to me of what the cost value is for that. >> or the square footage is to that. >> i don't know the specifications of it. >> yeah, major would be going in and just pretty much rehabing the whole place and so it is more. >> right. >> it definitely would trigger. >> especially if it has the existing air-condition

he is getting only rehab, to be paid for by his parents.this is due to the silly affluenza defense or whether it's just part of the racial bias we see every day in american courtrooms across the country, i mean, this is clearly differential treatment. and i'm glad that we're at least highlighting it and talking about it and putting a spotlight on it because it's completely outrageous. >> and we don't know know, faith, how long he is going to have 20 stay in rehab there is no minimum time. and last night when we covered it, the judge had not given a ruling. a lot of people were tweeting me saying oh, she is going to correct herself. >> no. >> she didn't. >> no, she didn't. when you're a judge, you to exercise good judgment. part of that good judgment is using your discretion, not just look agent the defendant and who they are, but looking at the victims and the people who were impacted, the people who were killed, the two other individuals whose lives are forever changed because they were so seriously injured. and juvenile justice, yes, it's

. >> ahead a young pop icon makes a brief stop in rehab. the unanswered questions about why she ended up there. and the special nod to the military at pebble beach. safeway presents real big deals of the week. or how to get great deals the easy way. you do enough flying around. that's why we give you real big club card deals. right now, our largest jug of arm & hammer detergent is just $5.00. fill your water supply. arrowhead water is only $3.29 a case. and chobani greek yogurt is just a buck. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. >> someone fired 150 rounds. he believes it was an act of terrorism. someone cut at&t fiber ontic optic lines the same night. >> officers wrote up jaywalkers. a car struck and killed a 78-year-old man in the sun set district. >> a club located in the industrial part of the city was busted. >> it's an industrial pocket of san jose and inside this complex businesses from flooring to party goods. >> i've been here for 21 years old. >> and never a problem, that is until early

in may of last year, hoffman admitted he recently spent ten days in rehab for drug abuse, including heroin. the oscar winner open about a drug problem in his early 20s, saying he'd kicked the habit for 23 years. in a 2006 interview, telling

girlfriend rented that apartment and say after he had returned from rehab. he was last seen at 8:00 on saturday night. autopsy will be conducted on monday. they will examining the drug in their lab and checking it for fingerprints. short time ago the family released this statement. >>> cnn's alexandra field is live. tell us what is being said and done there. >> more people are coming every hour go es by. the fans who have heard the word have started to come and want to pay tribute. they are being kept back and this is still an investigation. you still have this crime scene unit out here. we did learn this afternoon that the apartment he has been living in following a visit to rehab that previously he had lived in this neighborhood with the rest of his family. this is a man who was well-known in the neighborhood but well admired across the country. he has fans who are pouring in. i'll show you, this is left on the door. but this is a closely guarded keen. her 13th birthday her mother had flown her from texas to new york city to see him on stage and she had be

hob honest, the 2.5 for rehabing the section was fully expended. the art commission, as far as i can determine, that was before the current commission was in place. it looks as if perhaps up to $500,000 was allocated in one-time grants ranging from about 7 or $8,000 up to the maximum of $80,000. it appears to have been under utilized. again, i'm not sure of the reasoning behind it, but it doesn't look as if that program came close to expending the full amount of those dollars. >> i just hope as the working group comes up with its recommendations we have full accountability for money and that every penny is spent because the community based nonprofits really need ti know supervisor avalos is already thinking of how we support not just generally arts or nonprofits, but also maybe specifically for arts organizations, especially from communities. i also just wanted to say, too, that as the nonprofit organizations in the city, the 1,425 contracts, has the number of nonprofits gone down since that crisis after the dot-com organizations merging and even o

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i had been in and out of rehab a dozen times and no one was still asking me.it is not on my medical record. i go to a new doctor and, guess what? if it's not on my record they will give me what i want. we have both a cultural problem and then you ask about a system problem, as the first panelist talked about. we can correct that. any otherat that like physical illness because this is not just a character flaw. although, you have lots of character flaws when you are an addict. this is also a chemistry issue as director volkow can tell us. our medical system is not trained for this. they don't know how to ask about it. travis, that is the big issue that we need to change. >> you acknowledge that as a patient, you are physically going to the doctor and getting medicines from doctors. let's briefly talk about the focus of the panel, which is colleges and teenagers. there are a lot of people that are getting these medicines through friends and acquaintances assuming they are safer because it was written as a prescription by a physician. impact these kids that are g

last year we know publicly he sought rehab after a week of heroin use.the kinds of struggle this man may have been enduring. many people thought, wait a minute, so highly successful, so sought-after, so wanted. what was this pull all about, this pull toward addiction, drugs, heroin. >> let me say addiction seems to only take the best and brightest. it's one of the saddest addictions. opiate addiction, heroin is an opiate, fueled by overaddiction to opiate pills these days. that's how he got into heroin as most people do. they start with pills and graduate to heroin. you have to understand, you must understand that opiate addiction is a fatal illness. people that struggle with opiate addiction rarely see their 50s. he's had it for decades, struggled with it. somebody who successfully struggled with sobriety and has years of success can live long life. someone who has difficulty embracing treatment and slips and has relapses, overwhelming, terrible malignancy in louvre they succumb to. for some reason our society cannot get our head around it. we're always

>> no, i don't. >> in fact, you went into rehab at a fairly early age? >> yeah, i did. i did.n i was 22. yeah. >> so this was drugs or alcohol or both? >> it was all, it was all that stuff, yeah. anything coy get my hands on, man, yeah. yeah, i liked it all, yeah. >> and why did you decide to stop? >> you get panicked. you get panicked. it was -- i was 22, and i got panicked in my life. it really was. it was that i thought god, i have so much empathy for these young actors who are 19 and all of the sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich and god, i'd be dead. >> we have heard from a lot of people in the acting community reacting to the loss of philip seymour hoffman. george clooney released a statement to cnn saying there are no words. it's just terrible. brian stalter is the host of cnn's "reliable sources" and he joins us by phone. brian, thank you so much for joining us. tell us about the mark that hoffman made in hollywood. >> to hear someone like george clooney, someone the caliber of george clooney say there are no words, i think describes the pretty well. i was str

. >> in fact, you went into rehab at a fairly early age? >> i did, i did.ent -- i got sober, i was 22 years old. yeah. >> so this was drugs or alcohol or both? >> yeah, all of that stuff. yeah. anything i could get my hands on. yeah. >> and why did you decide to stop? >> you get panicked. you get panicked. it was -- i was 22, and i got panicked for my life. it really was, it was just that. >> one of the things that we think is suspected that he took heroin that had been mixed with another drug that was used for cancer patients. that heroin has been sold in a number of people, over 100, have actually died from the use of that heroin. it's what we call a hot shot. i think that's probably there's something to it. what do you think? this guy, who is responsible here for -- if he had a drug problem, he said he stayed in rehab for ten days. >> i'm curious. you nailed that, as soon as the news, you said, it's a hot shot, heroin, it's going around. do you go after the dealers for murder? i mean, is it that dramatic, that they can accuse a dealer for murder? >> pote

he spoke to tmz last year after he got out of rehab.a facility for about 10 days. this was may of last year. he said he realized quickly he needed help after using heroin for about a week. quote, a great group of friends and family helped him seek the treatment he needed to get better. then he flew off to europe, flew off to film one of those movies i just mentioned. at that moment he was feeling better. tmz wrote, seems it worked hoffman is clean. as we know about addiction, it's a battle that never ends. of course, we were reminded by that when cory monteith died from "glee," circumstances that were similar. philip seymour hoffman in a category like no others. 46 years old and academy award winner. there was a twitter message from "time" magazine. a lot of deaths feel sad. philip seymour hoffman feels like a robbery. >> it's tragic, very sad. hold tight for a second. i want to bring in reporter michelle turner, also there in new york. michelle, this news clearly hitting everyone like a ton of bricks. a talented actor, still in the mid

at the same time this incident happen, the massacre at the rehab center. i got information that witnesses said that this one big truck blocked the road to help the be at the rehab center and kill these people. with the two investigations going side by side i start to accept that i have been followed. one day my wife go home. outside of her she noticed a little mini van following her, outside of the house. there's two men in the mini van. one of the men take it out and point it like this. this moment is when you understand that your family - now they are injured. we have a phrase among the police officers in mexico. they say that the heart and your stomach gives you good advices, so you have to learn to listen to them. so you feel that something is wrong. i cannot explain how you feel or when do you feel that something is advantage there. so that's when i start to say, "okay, i need to leave." >> intimidation is the whole skill. you have to look on a case-by-case basis whether the journalist is simply afraid of losing his livelihood or whether the journalis

the singer has been in a rehab program for anger issues and expected to complete the rehab program on february 19. he has to travel to washington for a hearing on a different assault charge february 20th. kevin jonas and his wife danielle welcomed a baby girl to the family on sunday. the jonas brother-turned- reality star practically live- tweeted the birth of "alena rose". pictures of her and the proud new mom showed up online soon after. the baby is the first child for the couple and the first baby for any jonas brother. that is sweet. >> the snow is coming from the south. you will see that it's still on the flip side not getting here until 5:00. we expect it to be heavy tonight. three-6 in. for the entire region. some areas it to the south could see more. we dry out by lunchtime tomorrow. >> your morning headlines are coming up. >>i don't have to listen to you! i wish you were dead! >> don't you ever talk to me like that! >> if you're the mother of a child with behavior problems, i'd like to talk to you. my name is janet lehman, and i'm a behavioral therapist and a mom. i know what

i like it. >>> another young star is in rehab, and justin bieber could be the reason why.. >>> plus, pharrell's hat is back. "the skinny" is next. cheers. >> "world news now" continues after this from our abc ♪ >>> skinny time. might be a case of deja vu when jay leno signs off as the final time for "the tonight show" this evening. >> jay leno left the show in 2009 only to be yanked back after conan o'brien failed to meet the ratings. he started back in 1992. his guests tonight will be billy crystal who was on the first show and garth brooks. love garth brooks. jimmy fallon takes over "the tonight show" on the 17th. >> you are a country girl. >> i am. especially garth brooks. sometimes you need a little help in saying good-bye. >> the rep for selena gomez now confirms why she entered a rehab facility last month. turns out it wasn't for substance abuse. she apparently needed help getting over justin bieber. >> their rocky on again/off again relationship ended in 2012, then again in may 2013. a source tells e. online that her continuing interaction with the increasingly trou

siegel visited a rehab center for a look at the real face of a horrible addiction. dr. siegel? >> you know, jamie, when i went in the door of phoenix house, i came up to somebody and said, can you tell me where so and so is? i thought he worked there. he didn't look like what my expectations of heroin was because the face of heroin is changing. there's an 85% change over the course of heroin use. 85% of the time it starts with prescription drugs. this is him with his beautiful young baby. it started this way with him. he went on prescription painkillers after a knee operation. the next thing you know, the doctor didn't want to prescribe them anymore, and said, look, you shouldn't be using them and he went out and got heroin. bam! he was addicted to heroin after a couple uses, big rush. he ended up in phoenix house. he's 32 years old and bought his first house at the age of 20. he's a big success story. now he said his love for his wife and young daughter will get him back. we'll hope he's right. let's take a look. >> people are shooting up one bag of dope and dying. >> why? >>

he went to rehab greta in may and then completed his stint then.for people talking to him in the last few weeks, we can tell you that did, indeed happen. and that people were concerned and that he was concerned and knew he had a problem and knew that the problem could be fatal. but, you know, he was trying to lick it. he knew he was in a bad, bad place. and the irony here is that he was considered a guru in aa because he had kicked it for almost 23 years. and people looked up to him thinking he is like an east coast version of robert downie jr. and really he had had kind of held that mantel for a long time. it just didn't work. >> what was it before he went off the wagon and ended up back in rehab was there an event. >> i don't know of an event. he was struggling and he was trying and he wasn't succeeding. i don't know that there was any particular thing that triggered it. it could have been a big thing. it could have been a small thing. i doubt it was a big thing because nobody is saying it was. >> harvey, thank you, always nice to see you. everyt

right abuses for militaries, but at the same time as these incident happened, the massacre at the rehab center. so i got information that when this is said, that this one big truck with soldiers block the road to help the hit men to be at the rehab center and kill these people. with these two investigations going side-by-side, i start to notice that i have been followed. one day my wife, she go back home, and outside of his minivan, she noticed that another minivan who was following her park just outside of the house. there's two men in the minivan. one of the mens-- one of the men uh.. take it out his arm and pointed like this. this moment is when you understand that your family, now they are in your danger. we have a- a phrase-- it's quite common among the police officers in mexico. they say that the heart and your stomach is uh.. gives you good advices. so you have to learn to listen them. so you feel that something is wrong. i can't explain it how do you feel or- or when do you feel, but something is- is strange there, so that's when i start to say, "okay, i need to leave." >> intim

i spoke to one young man in a rehab facility for the third time now.oses. i asked him, how much of a factor was the fear? here is what he told us. >> i didn't think about overdosing, i just wanted to get high, you know? any means to get it or do it, i was doing it. >> he's a baby. he's -- >> he's 22 years old. he started using when he was 15 years old. he went from marijuana to prescription drugs and heroin when the prescription drugs were too expensive or too hard to find. >> it's been happening a lot. you went to pennsylvania. 22 deaths in a period of how long? >> about a week. >> from -- is it all because it's laced with this drug you are talking about? >> right, it is. one of the things the a.g.'s office is saying, we are on a manhunt. we want to find who is selling, distributing and dispensing this stuff. we want to prosecute. there's a statute that is drug results in death. if you sell, dispense, deliver this stuff and somebody dies, they are going to prosecute. they are going to find them. and the penalty is no more than 40 years. there's a stif

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i had been in and out of rehab a dozen times and no one was still asking me. it is not on my medical record. i go to a new doctor and, guess what? if it's not on my record they will give me what i want. we have both a cultural problem and then you ask about a system problem, as the first panelist talked about. we can correct that. we can treat that like any other physical illness because this is not just a character flaw. although, you have lots of character flaws when you are an addict. this is also a chemistry issue as director volkow can tell us. our medical system is not trained for this. they don't know how to ask about it. travis, that is the big issue that we need to change. >> you acknowledge that as a patient, you are physically going to the doctor and getting medicines from doctors. let's briefly talk about the focus of the panel, which is colleges and teenagers. there are a lot of people that are getting these medicines through friends and acquaintances assuming they are safer because it was written as a prescription by a physician. how do we impact

she went to rehab, thursday she'll celebrate three years of sobriety. >> i wish there was something i could do to guarantee they won't have to live that pain. i'm aware of the fact that i'm one of the lucky few that made it out. >> as any addict tells you, making it out is one thing. staying out is a life-long struggle. >> very difficult road to recovering. 10 to 20% of addicts stay off drugs after leaving rehab. >> one of the the nation's largest chains will top selling cigarettes. the company is receiving high price from people in high places. >> a landmark decision. c.b.s. has 706 stores in 43 states. its decision to stop selling tobacco products could be a retat game changer. >> when we arrived ourselves where we expect to be in the future as a health care company, it was clear that removing tobacco products from our stores is the right thing to do. >> the decision will cost around $2 billion. shares slipped on wall street. but c.b.s. sales account for $125 million. cigarettes a small piece of that. reaction was swift and surprising. the president of the united states responded wi

the judge sparing ethan couch jail time ordering him to rehab inside. you will remember this case created quite a controversy when a judge sentenced him to probation saying he was a product of affluenza. family of the victims outraged. >> premrau, talented gifted schools, i don't buy it. he knows how to beat this game. even if he follows all of the things and jumpings through the hoops and does the tricks he is supposed to do i don't think the world will ever take their eyes off of him. >> prosecutor tos asked the judge to sentenced 16-year-old to 20-years behind bars. >> the former police officer accused of killing a man for texting during a movie pleads not guilty. curtis reeves was charged with second degree murder a. judge will rule later this week on whether he can be released on bond. he is accused of shooting chad olson for texting during a movie. reeves claims it was self defense. >>> three of the four people arrested as a result of the investigation in phillip seymour off man's death now charged with drug charges. the numbers were in his cell p

. >> the olympic swimmer known as the tor pe 0 due in rehab.ve-time gold medalist is in rehab after police found him disoriented on a sydney street. police say they spoke to thorp after residents reported a man breaking into a van. thorp was taken to the hospital, then later transferred to rehab facility. his manager says thorp was affected by a combination of antidepressants and painkillers for shoulder injury. his manager says that thorp is in rehab for depression. >> coming up a little girl is found dead in her bay area home. we're going to tell you why her mother and her boyfriend under arrest in connection with that tragic death. >> a so-called ring of steel, is it enough to keep athletes and their families safe during the winter olympics? >> and crowded platforms, cramped trains, long lines to get into and out of the super bowl. we'll tell you how the bay area super bowl planners are trying to keep new jersey's mass transit meltdown from happening here. well i drove grandpa to his speed dating this week, so i should probably get the last

if you can't get out, people go to rehab, for example. >> if they are lucky enough. >> if they make ithat far and they go from days to two weeks. i think you have have to educate the children. >> can i ask you a question as a surgeon? the doctor wrote a prescription automatically and i picked it up for 30 vicodin. >> it's a very excellent point. i was about to say this. this is a big message to ourselves as doctors. we are writing too many narcotics for no good reason. 80 percent per of these heroin addicts are starting with this medication and they get hooked on them and can't get out of them. that's when they get into the heroin. what's the message to the children? lock up the pharmacy drugs in the cabinets and make sure there is no exposure. >> the question to emphasize this. you get a different rush from heroin than the pain killers. >> if they are good, that's better. >> the euphoria and the heroin is cheap. >> i asked you that question before. seeing him with his beautiful baby that he doesn't get the euphoria he needs from that beautiful girl. good luck to him. >> drinking disti

bob forcester is a recovering addict and a counselor on celebrity rehab. let me start with this question of the demons. that could mean a lot of things. it could be a general thing or something specific. he was seeing, having been through this, anyone who suffers an addiction obviously is battling demons. but what do you think the so-called demons that an addict saw might have been? >> well, what happens is the person's priorities in life become all distorted and out of whack. so though you care about your family, you find yourself caring about drugs. and though you care about your job, you find yourself caring more about getting the money in order to get drugs. and so it just disregulates everything about the person's priorities and their personality and what's important to them. and that's what you can't see that when it's happening, you can't see what it is that's driving it. it's the drugs and your quest for them. >> and you know, it seems these diaries obviously are going to be incredibly candid and personal. and a look na his mind we don't often get.

only 10-20% of addicts stay off drugs after leaving rehab. an emotional hearing for a retired cop accused of texting a man in a movie theatre. curtis reeves wept in court. he is facing murder charges in the death of chad olson. his wife was shot and was there for the bail hearing. >> you will learn from the witnesses they'll testify that it the no time did mr olsen threat ep, strike or touch mr reeves in this case, judge. >> the judge says he'll allow surveillance video from inside the theatre to be shape in court. reeves has been held in a court since the shooting. the bail hearing is expected to resume on friday. >> concerns over attacks on the u.s. power grid. the power station was a target of terrorism. a stiper attack on gas and electric in april, that knocked out transformers could have been a pre-trial rup. the fbi says there's no proof of that. a team that killed them would be send to rehab instead of gaol. attorneys argued his parents coddled him. the lawyers called it affluenza, outraging the families of his victims. critics say it

the 46-year-old actor had waged a public battle with drug addiction, including a reported stint in rehab last year after more than two decades of sobriety. in 2002, he appeared on "today." >> i think everybody's troubled. i think that's part of what it's like living on the planet. >> reporter: best known for his oscar winning turn in the title role in "capote," he was a versatile character actor, famous for disappearing in his roles. >> when the bellhop told me i had a phone call, it was my stepfather, joe capote, calling to say that my mother had died. >> i don't think there's anything he couldn't do. he did comedic roles, tragic roles and everything in between. >> you cannot make friends with the rock stars. >> reporter: from "almost famous." >> the helsinki job was mine. >> to "charlie wilson's war," "the big lebowski." >> indeed, that is mr. lebowski with the first lady. >> we're not helpless. >> reporter: and "the master," a role for which he was nominated an oscar, golden globe and bathta last year. hoffman was also active in theater, having starred and directed numerous plays, inc