it, and good for you for being there for your relatives, but laura's law will not authorize us to use medication, and often, they write back saying they did not realize that. i think that we all

it, and good for you for being there for your relatives, but laura's law will not authorize us to use medication, and often, they write back saying they did not realize that. i think that we all knew together that we need to redouble our efforts. we need to look at conservatorship in san francisco. that is another option. we do not have as many conservator's as we would like. we do not always edgy providers on what they need to have to have a successful have a successful conservatorship, so i think

it, and good for you for being there for your relatives, but laura's law will not authorize us to use medication, and often, they write back saying they did not realize that. i think that we all knew together that we need to redouble our efforts. we need to look at conservatorship in san francisco. that is another option. we do not have as many conservator's as we would like. we do not always edgy providers on what they need to have to have a successful conservatorship, so i think there are other things, but i do not possible -- believe this one. supervisor mirkarimi: two ago, someone was here, and we were not able to benefit from his presence then, which is why we have continued to this conversation until today. that represented spoke affirmatively for laura's law and spoke for the need to it, and i think that confuse some people. maybe you can help clarify. >> so that was a very talented psychiatrist. he and i had not talked about it. i talked to him immediately after it, and he was under two very common misconceptions about laura's law. first, he thought it would allow or mandate treatment, w

medication-assisted therapies and how they're used. well there are a number of medications that are used to help facilitate recovery from substance use disorders. the most popular and most prominent would be buprenorphine and methadone. but there are also medications used for the treatment of alcohol. examples of that would be naltrexone and the camprosate or disulfiram. what they're used to do is to either facilitate the recovery of persons through maintenance, as with methadone or buprenorphine, to facilitate detoxification. both methadone and buprenorphine can be used for that, as anti-craving agents, such as acamprosate and naltrexone, or to discourage use of a substance such as an aversive antabuse or disulfiram. and lisa, a lot of people might think that medication-assisted therapies is really substituting one drug for another, is that the case? no, there's actually big differences in the short-acting illicit substances and the medications that are used to help facilitate recovery. there is a lot of misinformation that's been circulating, and it's definitely to a disadvantage for people seeking treatment for active addiction. and how doe

to use those as directed and as safely as possible. but in that same refrain, we've taken medications that we used to maybe have a lot of respect for and treat them, you know, as something to be respected, and we've made them commonplace among our youth; you know, $4 medications, while those are fabulous, those ads are making this just as easy to do as a soda that you get in a drugstore and 7-11. for instance, my daughter, when i put her to bed, my four-year-old, couple of years ago, looked at me and said "when is the night-night butterfly going to come?" and that's from seeing the lunesta commercial that was quite popular at that point in time. so we've changed the way we think about medications with the marketing and advertising and given them more of an assumption to be safe than they were many years ago. so i think that's something to think about as we're discussing this. and what does a parent say to the child when that occurs? well, you know, as a parent, it's very difficult because you give your child medication and say, here, this will make you feel better. and that, again, is giving a mixed message to our children and to our y

it's to stop using heroin, stop using other drugs, use your medication. i find that in working closely with people who suffer from addiction, they're just like other people. they want to be successful, they want to win, and they want to feel good about themselves and they want to be viewed as somebody who's constructive. you can't say abstinence is recovery because we have so many new medications in use and in the pipeline that abstinence is too misunderstood a word because what it does is it excludes anyone taking medication to treat their addictions and that is just not right. "you too. thank you." mark, we all know that stigma is still alive and well out there, not only related to addiction issues, but in particular, with medication-assisted therapies it has its own dynamic. i don't want to get into the negative, but what is the message that people need to understand about medication-assisted therapies? this is a treatment for chronic and relapsing illness. there's no magic to it. its understanding what happens to a human being. the fact is that there i

to galize the drug for recreational use. e poll showed 42% of adults say they use marijuana to relieve pain or treat a medical condition. 39% were recreatial users. 60% said the drug helps them to sleep or relax. 24 says it stimulatescraft different. and 47% of voters said they used marijua at least once. >> alan: basketball, anyone? how the president spent his sunday. >> carolyn: small plane lands upside down. the couple inside walks away unhurt. >> leigh: it has be another kind of fall-like day across the bay area, with low clouds and fog, mist and drizzle. any 90s in the forest? i think so. >> carolyn: first lady michelle obama and daughter sasha wrapped if thunder visit to spain, enjoying lunch with the royal couple they greedded the obamas at the front of their residence. the king gave mrs. obama some seed for the white house garden. after lunch, the obama party ruined -- rerned to the u.s. and president obama enjed his dream birthday weekend. he played basketball with nba all-stars including lebron mes and others. they entertained troops. i guess we don't get to actually see them playing basketball, just arriving there

they will decide whether to legalize the drug for recreational use. 42% of adults say they use marijuana to relief pain or treat a medicalondition. 39% identified themselves as recreational users. 60% says the drug helped them to sleep or relax. 24 temperatures said it stimulates their creativity and 47% of registered voters in the field poll said they'd use marijuana at least once. >> it's now 4:44. still ahead, warning why the food that's yummy for fido could be dangerous for your children. >> another celebrity testifies in the war crimes trial of the former president of liberia. still ahead why mia farrow says naomi campbell is lying. >> police are focusing on yellowstone national park as the hunt continues for fugitives on the run. the story coming up. >> and they died trying to bring some relief to the people of afghanistan. how the deaths of ten aid workers could impact future such missions in the nation. [ wind howling ] [ male announcer ] it balances you... [ water crashing ] [ male announcer ] ...it fills you with energy... and it gives you what you're looking for to live a more natural life, in a convenient two

using a talk therapy to do it as opposed to using a medication is you're just focusing on the problematic circuits in the brain so a talk therapist in a way is like a micro surgeon of the mind when the therapy is going well working just on the circuits that's the memories and the learned behaviors that are problematic. coyote: that kind of intervention takes a science fiction twist with a therapy designed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. the therapy is a combination of precise talking therapy and virtual reality, called "virtual iraq." skip: i think we've come to understand over the last twenty years that anything you experience or anything you learn, results in some change in the brain. when you develop ptsd from an extreme experience in combat the brain does change in some ways. we had the idea that perhaps there might be some folks coming back from the war in iraq and afghanistan that would be suffering some of the symptoms of ptsd much like the vietnam era vets had gone through. and, we thought about the idea of developing a treatment in virtual reality whereby you, put a person back in the scenes in vr, of the traumatic events that occurred to them, but in a very graduated way, and help them to process their emotional memories in a way where it's not just relying on imagination or reflective memory or anything, but rather putting them back in the scene so that it can kind of open up some of the things that have been bottled up. this actually is what we call exposure therapy. mclay: exposure therapy is based on a very old piece of psychology called learning theory. which basically talks about why we remember and focus on particular things and why things just sort of fade out of our consciousness. if we think about a very common everyday phenomenon where this happens, we stand everyday inches from pieces of metal going by at fifty-five miles an hour and weigh two thousand pounds. that should freak us out. but it doesn't because we do it everyday. our brain has just started to ignore the fear associated with that. coyote: but in cases post traumatic stress disorder or ptsd, it is the seemingly innocuous events and associations that can trigger fear and panic. such was the case with master sergeant robert butler. robert butler: i had some issues and i actually talked to the chaplain and hand talk to the youke you to gknow, a psychiatristtal because you have some signs that i think might be post-traumatic stress disorder." and um, i scoffed him off, you know, there's a lot of bad stigma with that still these days. kelly butler: i noticed changes right away, um... just was not as open, he was always the one that made you laugh, the one that would tell the jokes, everybody loved being around him for that reason, and there was no more of that, robert: my wife would tell you i didn't laugh, i didn't smile, i wasn't interested in doing things that we used to do together, going out, you kn

used properly may really help us. another drug developed in russia but also use in san francisco teary we see people who were treated with this as compared to a new medication at all actually improved over the first 12 months of treatment and were able to stabilize. again, there are really excited -- exciting new treatments on the horizon. they are not ready for prime time, but hopefully, within the next 10 years, we will have at least one of these. as i mentioned, with these new technologies, the real key will be early diagnosis and early treatment. the recommendations that the panel tried to come up with where to try to anticipate this because we think that while things are tough to do right now, within five or 10 years, these new technologies will merely make our lives and traditions easier. first of all, we know that alzheimer's disease starts very early on. we think with technologies like that brain scan i showed you, we may even be able to detect alzheimer's disease in people who have no symptoms. if we could do this and initiate treatment, perhaps we could prevent people from ever even developing alzheimer's disease, and they could remain normal. i'm

voters will decide in november whether to legalize the drug for recreational use. 42% of adults say they used marijuana to relief pain or treat a medicaldition. 39% identified themselves sas recreational users. 50% said the drugs helped them to sleep or relax. 24% say it stimulates their creativity and 47% of registered voters in the field poll said they had used marijuana at least once. >> it is 5:42 now. leave levi says it has a magic formula for a better fitting pair of jeans. >> another celebrity testifies in the war crimes trial of the former president of liberia. still ahead why mia pharaoh says naomi campbell is lying. >> police focusing on yellowstone national park as the hunt continues for fugitives on [ cell phone rings ] [ john ] i love these new cell phones. [ wife ] he just got a new phone and he can't stop using it. boom! profile pic. [ cell phone rings ] do you guys needs a moment? since john is always on his phone, we thought he'd like using wells fargo mobile banking. just paid the electric bill. wow. he's able to pay his bills, check his balance. wow. [ banker ] even transfer money between accounts. i can tell you wha

use of these medications they want to live again. it's very gratifying. it used to be that psychotherapy was all talk. talk, talk, talk, talk. then it moved into chemicals. >> yes. >> such as you have listed. >> yes. >> it was mostly chemicals. i can remember interviewing a woman by the name of leah who started leer's magazine and she said when she took lithium it really made the difference and all of that tal 1-866-331-talk 1-866-331-talk talk didn't do that much for her but that is not the view today. the view today is, you tell me if i'm wrong, you talk and you take the pill; that right? >> most of the studies show the best effect is a combination of psychotherapy or talk and the medication. i happen to think medication plays the biggest role. on the other hand, we are symbolic creatures. we talk. we use language and want to express how we feel. it's important. that's not as sufficient once people have the biological problems where they can't sleep and they don't want to eat, things like. that then they need the medications. >> so you think the medication is more efficacious than the talk? >> for certain people, yes. >> for certain people? >> yes. >> what about averages? >> i still think in most depressions, they're biological and the medication is the most important component of it. >> do you think that we only have seen the tip of the iceberg of pharmocological farm so psychological -- farm mow psychological medicine? >> i do we are only dealing with four or five neurotransmitters and we have 40 or 50. >> you don't have the chemicals for those? >> no. >> but they're going to come? >> sure. >> and then there will be cocktails. >> yes. >> one cocktail and then try this dosage and that dosage? >> we would like to design what i call designer drugs. the publisher didn't like that name, b

using to study childhood leukemia. >> we've had the tool in our hands. and now it seems to us, we fear, that this will be turned off. >> reporter: but medical researchers ared right now over one central question. what about all those embryonic stem cell experiments going on right now where the destruction of the embryo has already happened? must those experiments stop or can they continue? the national institutes of health immediately put 62 pending stem cell projects on hold and warned that more than 200 existing stem cell experiments could continue for now, but may not be renewed. several groups lobbying for more federal funding said the ruling would delay result for a cure. >> that's unacceptable for people with diseases. >> reporter: still some applauded the court's decision for protecting life. >> the debate we're having right now is, do human embryos count as human beings? >> reporter: the administration's appeal of the ruling will likely be heard quickly, but in the meantime, hundreds of federally funded experiments and the answers they were seeking face an uncertain future. wyatt andrews, cbs news, baltimore. >>> here's a story that has plenty of p

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to fix some of the medical costs. we will see if the reforms do any good. if they don't, we have to wait until the system collapses upon us. >> colby, trawls fixed social security for us. can you fix medicare? -- charles fixed social spirit for us. can you fix medicare? >> in one minute? >> i will be a minute and a half. we need the prospect of hanging that will concentrate our minds wonderfully. we propose more and more mandates without wastepaper these things. this is the reality -- without ways to pay for these things. this is the reality we have to face. at a point where we are spending what we don't have, we have a huge debt overload, it is not just a political argument, but it is a major financial issue that the country is facing, and we are not stepping up to that at all. >> 30-second cure for health care -- tort reform, a full taxation of benefits and employment, and lastly, allow people to purchase health insurance across stateines. all three are essentially left out of obamacare. >> all of the points, the arcane argument points, are fascinating. the reality is this -- we spent 24% of our gdp and tax 13.5%. that is a formula for financial chaos and crisis and

to continue his occasional drinking and marijuana use. >> we and mark together opted to address the oxycontin use and worked on giving him medication thatould take away his withdrawal that would absolutely eliminate his cravings. >> reporter: now with that medication and support at reliant, mark is off oxycontin. >> the thought of going back is repulsive, nauseating. >> reporter: he is not the only client to defeat his body's constant clamoring for drugs. >> people come to us and within a month or two we find that the majority of those patients are not using opiates on a daily basis. >> i think i'm headed in the right direction. i know i am. >> reporter: joe vazquez, cbs 5. >>> it is mission accomplished in the gulf for now. what still needs to happen, thought, to make sure the blown-out well doesn't start leaking again. >> if you are preparing dinner in the inland areas, you are basking in the sunshine. but the commute towards the north bay, your neighborhood forecast for the weekend is straight ahead as eyewitness news continues right here on the big 5. ,, i know. i know i need to quit this. - well, how about... - that smokers' helpli

hospitals to ensure patient safety but these are often used by doctors to simply rubber stamp trials so here it's a very ad hoc system that is misused for instance a medical institute and for women by use permission for a drug trial in cities like indoor popal and how can you use permission from an ethical committee of another institute in another city just to find drug trials in institute here with over one thousand three hundred drug trials going to have been conducted in india this industry's already said to be worth over one billion dollars yet it's clear that the laws against unethical trials are not working and the government will have to come up with other ways to stop the country's poor from being enticed into medical experiments that could potentially have serious side effects got unseeing r.t. india. and some of states and knees in pretty feel now and australia and the prime minister today has held a national told with the pending times that is to try to form a government down to the fact today's election but most of the vote counted the country's facing its fuss hold column it in seventeen is a pass he's likely to win the seventy six rules needed for an outright majority kil

use was not allowed, but convention goers could buy medical pot, get legal help and learn about the history of marijuana use. with a push to lee gaggize recreational -- legalize recreational marijuana usethese are attracting more and more budding entrepreneurs. >>> when we come back, a crackdown on speeders in north bay. >>> plus art, animals and actors all part of community festivals around the bay area. ,,,,,,,,,, this is unlike any car you've ever seen before. this is power with efficiency. this is an interior that exceeds even the promise of the exterior. this is the all-new jaguar xj. the stunning result of taking a very different road. >>> the forecast today. bay area cities, 72, san mateo, mostly sunny skies, 74, mountain view nothing but sunshine. milpitas, daytime high of 76. 77 santa clara, los gatoses most cities raining in the sunshine. we will look at more bay area citytoday's high temperatures coming up. >>> 6:25 a.m. if you are driving in santa rosa you need to drive carefully. special enforcement effort is taking place in a problem area there. officers will be watching traffic around mendocino and college avenues they will look for red light runners, people failing to w

to recovery. today we'll be talking about the importance of using prescription and over-the-counter medications properly. joining us in our panel today are dr. h. westley clark, director, center for substance abuse treatment, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, maryland; dr. timothy condon, deputy director, national institute on drug abuse, national institutes of health, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, maryland; dr. barbara krantz, chief executive officer

use is right for you. for a 30-tablet free trial offer, go to cialis.com. >> larry: joining us now live with the latest on pakistan's devastating floods, dr. sanjay gupta, cnn's chief medical correspondent with usislamabad, pakistan. how bad is this? >> well, larry, we got here a few hours ago. heading south in a couple of hours. talking to the people here in islamabad, you get a sense of what's happened in the last month in pakistan. it's raining again behind me which is not good news here. there's so much water that first started trickling in in the west part of the country. it's making its way further and further south. larry, the number that sort of boggles my mind, you think about this country, a fifth of it. 20% is literally underwater, which is amazing, you know? food, crops, communities, schools, roads, all kinds of hospitals. all those things deluge in so many ways in the last several weeks now. they talk about the number of people affected by this, larry. you talk about that, 20 million people. but there are close to 1 million people right now who are still stranded. literally can't get access to these people. can't get them so many of the things they need in terms of food and medicin

use. >> whole communities are being screened. it is hoped with the right treatment, it could even be eradicate it. medics say the work done has been invaluable. >> it gives us the motivation to know, and it helps appreciate the fact they are looking at people, but the insects are eradicated >> the artificial cow is giving hope to millions of people in africa. >> santiago in spain has been a source of the pilgrimage for years, but in recent times, the number of people has soared. 2010 is a significant year. >> preparing for the last leg of a long walk, they are heading for santiago, and they have nearly made it. this year, more than 130,000 pilgrims are brought the way of saying james, for at least 100 kilometers. -- the way of saint james, for at least 100 kilometers. he tells me the last few kilometers each day are the hardest. the destination is santiago cathedral. it is filled were the remains of st. james r. discovered. -- were discovered. for the pilgrims who made it here, the fact it is a wholly year made insignificant. this is also a huge commercial opportunity. there have been record-breaking crowds this year, giving the economy a boost. muse and the pet shop boys are playing, too. >> this is the main unique product, but we promote spirituality, nature, and astronomy. we use this as the heart of our campaign, but it has a far wider reach now. >> they get the stamp of approval for their efforts. the church is pragmatic. >> it is the pilgrimage, and lots of the motions come. >> the a moment -- the moment arriving is a moment of joy. they are embracing the opportunity, because there will not be another year until 2021. >> abandoned land is often neglected, and it could soon become a no go area for city residents. the council in southern france has found a novel way of controlling the events of nature. >> how you tackle the wilderness like this? you could probably put chemicals or weed killer all over it. for most, this would be mission impossible. that is of course if you -- unless you have a very peculiar team of specialists. like every sizable city, they have plenty of these plots, not so attractive to residents. they go anywhere, he says, into the most difficult terrain, and they eat practically anything. they are the direct descendant of domesticated she

using a divine guidance to be drug addiction are accused of using a bigger threat than the drugs themselves. in the u.k. medical officials say the number of women being subjected to genital mutilation is almost rawlings although the practice is illegal in the country no one's ever been convicted of the crime in thousands are considered to be at risk each year now you may find some of the images of laura in this report the stepping. school holidays for some golden afternoons in the park but for others a horrific ordeal aged fifteen u.k. born j. kumar as mother took her home to sierra leone for an initiation ceremony jay had fake ideas of evenings around the fire cooking and gossiping with female relatives she had no idea that during the celebration of her womanhood her genitalia would be cut or was laid down the floor lots of her and lots of like celebration chairs etc and then my mouth was covered so thing to muffle and then my legs were spread and i just felt just some pain that i don't think all of the pain itself will never ever leave me because i've had to but it's like i mean i can understand how people feel when they lose an arm or a leg where they have found some kind of pain all the time and that's the kind of pain which i personally have to live on a day to day basis i heard that some people this is really quick but i felt like it was being sought and women's rights organization forward estimates that six and a half thousand girls in the u.k. are at risk of female genital mutilation every year the most common age for girls to have the procedure is between six and eight the summer holidays are a prime time because there's an opportunity for a long visit back to the family's country of origin and although it's illegal in the u.k. there's evidence that it is being done in this country female genital mutilation is performed for cultural reasons and justified as a religious requirement or rights of passage to womanhood much like male circumcision it's supposed to ensure cleanliness and better marriage prospects however it often has serious and long lasting physical complications and sometimes it's hospital in london is one of the senses that deals with those repercussions some girls die they bleed to death or develop techniques infections when dirty instruments are used midwife. mo-mo sees the lasting effects of f.g. which include cysts on the vagina and sterility the removed everything deja referring to give or leave in the small opening for the past the. law. and so on and they expect the will remain to have sexual intercourse from this more openly if g.m. is thought to be so prevalent in the u.k. local authorities have set up task forces to identify when children are at risk but this is a practice that's gone on for centuries in some african and arabic countries and it's entrenched in families. some communities and this has been custom protests. and knowledge that some females that have had this procedure done to them by you will consider it's appropriate procedure is done to their own daughters and this is a war it's an important matter of education as well. in that legal despite being an illegal act there's never been a single conviction against someone who's arranged or performed female genital mutilation in the u.k. victim j. kumara says that'

conventiongoers could buy medical marijuana, get legal help and even learn about the colorful history of marijuana use. one merchant had glass pharmacy jars that druggist once used to display it in the 19th and 20th centuries when it was a legal pain killer. >> these jars were used for display in the drugstores. now i'm selling many of them to people that own the could operatives for the same purpose. >> with the growing acceptance of medical marijuana and a push to legalize cannabis, shows like hemp con are attracting an increasing number of entrepreneurs. >>> celebrate getting older. that was the message at america's first age march. 300 men and women marched through the field. they wanted to celebrate age pride. >> this march is for every age. it's to celebrate our real faces of age. >> she is taking her height to end age discrimination across the country. she is organizing other age marches this year in los angeles, washington, d.c. and in new york. >>> if you are driving in santa rosa this week, drive carefully. traffic officers will be conducting a special traffic enforcement effort in a special area looking for red light runners, people failing to wear seat

us it's also a biological phenomenon. the need to peoples don't have the answer to break down alcohol use so it destroys you more yes it's just not medically digested it's not decomposed in the body which means that it acts like a drug and that means that after the first dose the body will always need it like heroin to ask again it's a little bit more scientifically proven which they use over regular european drinks a glass of wine every day and feels fine. for one of your people it's like they've got to take an dose of heroin every date on exactly the cup so how do you fight it this is it possible to fight it the laws are crossed the country and you can't adopt your own laws. you known factor in our association and i proposed a bill to the federation council and actually they supported it in the clothes we proposed introducing profit bishan areas where indigenous people live we thought that was very important but the economic green the government told us. john because it tourists troops competition and it's a violation off for economic principles and so forth they were going to do that when i was arguing with them i said it was going to take the most developed or initial of the market economies of united states they introduced brought in some places in alaska. to bring down the whole there just prohibited to sell alcohol in there so i don't know exactly because of th

to tell us more about kangaroo care is dr. karen hendrickson at nyu medical center. great to have you here with us miracle it. >> sounds like a miracle. >> absolutely. >> explain how it works. how does this kangaroo care method actually work. >> kangaroo care method is a skin-to-skin touch of the mother and the baby. and the baby is naked. placed on the bare chest of the mother and then covered. generally we have a hat for the infant because they're outside an incubator in developed countries outside the united states. but it's skin-to-skin contact, the mother with the baby. >> outside this example that we're hearing from australia, have you heard of this before? >> well, kangaroo mother care is a technique for the preterm baby. it's specifically been developed from colombia, dr. edgar ray utilized this technique to help the survival of the preterm baby in bogata. it has been endorsed by the world health organization for the survival, enhancing the survival of the preterm baby, as well as enhancing breast feeding. >> it sounds like a methodology that in many cases works in country that have sort o

to the medical information bureau, law firms, medical practitioners? as consumers, where can we go to get our information without having something disclosed to us. this information is being used by insurance underwriters to give you a policy. it is also used for employment. basically, trying to get information as to where one can go to know what is out there for the individual. guest: one of the goals of the privacy provision in high-tech was the ability to give patients the chance to access their records. it is something that the states have been legislating for. clearly, privacy is not only limiting broken to your information, but also your ability to get access to your information. there are a number of ways to exercise this right. first, you can go to your provider and get access to your medical information. most will be required to provide that information to you. there is information on the hhs website on how to exercise your privacy rights under the high- tech act. under the medical bureau, they keep a central repository of records. that has been available to insurers. those records should be available to you as well. host: personasks on twitter -- guest: i completely

useful in these conditions but in fact i've been told that these medical masks are really of no use in these conditions and what you need and i want to show our viewers clearly in russia you would need these types of mass to travel an opening here and we have a filter which filters the air that you breathe and lots of people are trying to leave the capital to small free regions however the fact that seventeen regions are affected by the fires and also infiltrated by this small that is for me too difficult to leave the city that's why the locals here in moscow are very concerned about the situation us listen to what some of them had to say. the smoggiest terrible icon three it makes me always each which. people shouldn't work in such conditions the government. must send him. a few days like you. do stationed here it makes my town sore and his feel is dreadful moskowitz now are praying for a change in the weather for some rain and a change of wind to blow the smog away from the city but unfortunately weather forecasts truly call for a little hope saying that the speech is likely to stay and that the wind of change can happen not sooner then only in a couple of days meaning that the small may start dissolving all me in a couple of days and besides the fact that people are forced to wear masks and some are forced to flee the city looking for some relief from smaug areas environmentalist are already naming some other extreme consequences which may be brought by this disaster. serious trouble he is related to a nuclear power plants because because of what he and the forest fires some of

useful in these conditions but in fact i've been told that these medical masks are really of no use in this conditions and what you need and i want to show our viewers clearly in russia you would need these types of masks which have an opening here and they have a filter which filters the air that you breathe lots of people are trying to leave the capital to small free regions however the fact that seventeen regions are affected by the fires and also infiltrated by this small detail for many too difficult to leave the city that's why the locals here in moscow are very concerned about the situation us listen to what some of them had to say. and i see more of the small these terrible i can breathe it makes my eyes each and nothing helps no matter what we do with it where masks were put went curtains over the windows. which are of wood people shouldn't work in such conditions the government must send him home. lives like. there is station here it makes my throat sore and his view is dreadful. at the moment people are just praying for a change in the weather for a cooling in the temperatures and for some rain but unfortunately we're. forecast all for a little while saying that this heat is likely to stay and that the winds may change only in a couple of days and which means that the small me start to solving only in a couple of these time so moscow is below likely to continue to be covered in this blanket off the stocks and small now the doctors in moscow have said that their death rates have doubled they say that this is because of the smog and the environmentalists are all also be c

using a hand radio. our radios to community. to be able to find out what the capacity at each medical facilities are and where we put folks for different kinds of emergency services. we used to do this probably twice a year in the past. because of constraints we are doing table top discussions and drills. we hope to do more large scale community drills. before a close i want to share a couple of other things we are working on for the future. worn is having to do with trying to security and purchase food and water suppliers for the community. a majority of san francisco population and the china town community few would have enough food and water to last 3 days. for many of the sro residents one issue is even if they could where would they store the food and water in the cramped places. we will have food bars or energy bars to be located throughout the china town area for those in need. also one. other things is to work with the city and local businesses. we saw in 89 when folks accesses restaurants, markets, stores to access food supplies they were denied. we are trying to set up a system working with the local businesses to empower them to distribute their foods with the promised they will be reimbursed by the city for products and service. those are some things that are a work in progress and we are continuing to make our plan better and i will be happy to answer more questions you have after. >> i'm judy choi with the san francisco dcht animal care control. i am on the committee the disaster committee with our shelter. as well as 5 other partner organizations in san francisco. we meet regularly and we have been meeting for the past 10 years. i have been with animal care control for 15. what we talk about in a larger scale is what happens to our pets in san francisco when there is a disaster. in a smaller scale the agency our department responds to disasters. animal related emergencies. so if your apartment building has a fire and you happen to have pets on the property animal care control will respond and we will house your animal for a holding period. so that you can get yourself situated and find a permanent home situation for your pet. at least that-s you out in the short run. so when we look at the whole picture of when there is a disaster in san francisco, how are we going to have the amount of pets we have in the city? if we think that there are at least 2 pets in every household, where are all the animals going to go? the first thing we want to tell you is as you are preparing yourself for your disaster kit you need to prepare a disaster kit for your pets as well. hurricane katrina what we learnd and they were told to keep their pet necessary their house. fill your bathtub with water. rip up your dogs of food and leave it out. same thing with your cats. and leave them at home. we are not telling you that for san francisco. we are telling you to take your pets with you. do not leave them at home. because we will provide as many housing as we can for your pets and for you to stay with your pets we will provide shelters in human shelters so you can stay with your pets. if you are well prepared for yourself and you are well prepared for your pets then that leaves animal care and control a small city agency if 40 personnel to help with the other animals that don't have immediate care. so what can you do to prepare for your pets? your kit will have a week of food and water, your supplies, a picture, form of identification as well as medical records. the most important thing is for reunification is to have your mets microchipped. microchip is a permanent form of id injected under the skin in the back between the 2 shoulder blade, we use a scan sxer they will identify you owner of the pet. that is the best way for us to help reunite you and your pet. you can do it on a dog. you can put a microchip in your cat or on a rabbit or a bird. so we can't stress enough how important it is to microchippure pet. check with your vet for microchipping if you want to get your pet microchipped for 10 dollars we will have it on october 28 in sharon meadows. we meet and we discuss with the san francisco vet medical association on what part the vets will play. there are 25 vet services in san francisco. each of them have agreed on what services they will provide for san francisco. also we have our other bay area shelters that will come and help. when we have a disaster as well as we will go and help a bay area when they have a disaster. we are able to and hopefully have enough help where we are able to take care of every animal in san francisco. thank you. >> good afternoon. michael peterson with pacific gas and electric director of em

use for community outreach purposes a whole range of materials to help get the word out in a consistent way about prevention and treatment options related to teen prescription drug abuse. as medication use becomes more prevalent in our society for all ages, so too becomes the need to improve the communication about those medicines between the clinicians-the doctors, the pharmacists, other prescribers-and the patient and their support network. samhsa's been a tremendous resource support to ncpie. they've provided resources and also the intellectual information and data that have enabled ncpie to develop resource materials, such as our "teen influencer" program, materials that are available for the community and for teens and parents. ncpie makes sure that it embeds in all its messages and materials information for the general public, for adults and teens about where they can seek out treatment information, including, for example, samhsa's hotline and their "treatment locator." all the wonderful resources that we have, whether they're at aarp or the national council on patient information and education, all come down to helping people get the most value from their medicines. so if i go to a gathering, it could be a party of one or it could be a party of a thousand, and people ask me what i do and i tell them, automatically that triggers "oh, my mother's taking a lot of medications," or "my son's having a problem with..." so it creates an opportunity to help and serve. so we've already established that over-the-counter medications are accessible and that youth are in particular risk of accessing these drugs. and, what has been done or what can be done to help us deal with this problem. beverly? we need to make sure parents are aware that this is really an issue and a concern for their youth and that we have community groups in schools and different organizations bring that up. because i think parents, it's kind of under their radar. they're looking for illicit drugs; they're kind of thinking about that and watching for their children, but they're not paying attention to the packages of cough syrup coming into the house or the different things they might find around or maybe different shopping expeditions that their children are taking to the drugstores. and they can work with their local community pharmacies, too, to sort of increase that awareness and make people more aware that this is a prevalent issue and it is a problem, and i think its getting on parents' radar will help a great deal in that respect. we want to keep parents aware that just because, again, it's on the aisle doesn't mean that if it's misused, it's safe. for instance, betw

us this day our daily bread. be thankful for this day and for all the gifts. i mean, people give to us because they're grateful for all they've been given. >> reporter: here residents not only get shelter but medical help, counseling, and spiritual guidance. >> where is god in this recovery for you? >> reporter: and here faith is a component of healing, but no doctrines are taught. nothing is force-fed or imposed. there is a very spiritual, loving foundation, magdalene graduate katie lynn says, but -- >> they don't push religion on you, so that you can make the choice of your own, because a lot of people such as myself come from a background where i was told that if anything bad i did god was going to get me. >> i think most of the women have pretty strong feelings about what their spiritual path looks like, and i'm more interested in encouraging them to have that religious and spiritual voice, where nobody's saying like this is what you need to believe. >> reporter: for the women who come here there is no staff hovering about, no one telling them what to do. what they do get -- something most of them have never gotten before. >> i felt unconditional love. they loved me for who i was, and they wanted to help me through anything, just to get better. >> reporter: at first that environment, that acceptance seemed unreal to tara and shelia mcclain. when she was very small, shelia was repeatedly abused for years. leaving home at 14, getting addicted, at 18 she turned to prostitution. tara and shelia bonded when they were working the streets. >> like we'd go do a trick, a date together, or we'd go to an apartment. >> we were treacherous, okay? >> i would rob and she would -- >> i would flat-back. >> she would flat-back. >> we were treacherous out there together. >> reporter: so on a good day you could make how much? >> most days it was easy to make at least $1,000 a day. >> yeah. >> reporter: they both hated it, they say, but neither could break loose. >> after i turned the trick to get a room, i'd feel the degradation hit and then i'd have to buy dope to medicate how i was feeling about just dealing with the trick, and it's a vicious cycle, you know. >> my theory is no woman ended up on the streets by herself. whether it's a failed family, violence experienced early on, she didn't get out there by herself, and so it's crazy to think she's going to come off the streets by herself, you know, out of jail with no provisions. they're going to call their drug dealer to come get them, and it just starts over again. >> reporter: ready for a change, shelia wrote to her judge from prison asking to be admitted to the magdalene program. two years later, she graduated with the judge by her side. she is different now -- clean, owns her own house, is married with two children, and a college student. ta, who graduatesn december, has also put her drug-ridden past behind. >> there was no judgment. they just want to help you.8.kp you know, and i believe in myself today. >> reporter: assisted on that vanderbilt campus chapel by her grammy-winning songwriter-husband, marcus hummon, the barefoot priest sees the magdalene homes and thistle farms as part of her ministry. >> i'm doing the best that i can to live out my faith as i understand it, and i'm doing it on the path that i have chosen, and i've chosen as an episcopal priest to do this work. >> reporter: her ministry springs partly from sexual abuse she suffered from a deacon in her church when she was just six to eight years old. >> i get some of the recovery issues. i see in my own abuse in my life as in some ways strangely a gift, that i learned a lot. it's nothing i would have asked for, but it is a gift, and it's a powerful tool. so i'm a defender of a lot of women, because i know you don't get over that stuff. i have a tenderness for what it does and how it makes you look at the world. >> reporter: through natural products, private grants, and gifts stevens has raised nearly $13 million, with it sending the women of magdalene to visit women in prison. she has also helped fund a school in ecuador and to help establish a business for women's groups in rwanda-abroad and at home demonstrating what she says is the same theme -- >> that love is the most powerful force for social ange. that love could be powerful enough to change a life. and what i think it means now is it has changed my life, and i think i'm really different because of the gift of this work. i believe that more now than when i started out. >> reporter: what happens at thistle farms and at magdalene seems to be working. 72% of the women who complete the program, says stevens, are clean two and a half years later. and while not everyone embraces the program -- this streetwalker, angie, said she just wasn't ready when her old friends, tara and katrina, urged her to join -- nearly 80 to 100 women are waiting to get in. for those who do graduate from what becca stevens has started, there is exhilaration and pride and a conviction that their lives have been transformed. >> i know that now there is a different way, and i will never go back. never. and a lot of people say you never say never, but i know i will never go back. >> my gift now is to be, now that i'm breathing, is to be able to show other women a way out, and magdalene was that way out for me. >> reporter: a way out where abused women bond sharing simple daily chores, where they grow closer helping one another, where, with hands that have known hardship they now make candles which burn sweetly, where the faces change but the circle of healing grows stronger. for "religion and ethics newsweekly," this is bob faw in nashville, tennessee. >>> one of the first americans to become a z maer died last week. robert afkin was 93. he was introduced to buddhism as a captive in a japanese prison camp during world war ii, he later founded a buddhist community in hawaii and became known for his strong commitment to social justice. >>> for muslims observing ramadan, the summer heat has made it challenging to fast from dawn to dusk and that's let to some unusual compromises. in dubai, a religious ruling allows observers to break the fast if it's too hot. and on the west bank and gaza, they moved their clock back an hour earlier so they can end their fast. saudi officials hope it will become the official time keeper of the muslim world. that's our program for now. i'm deborah potter, we would like to hear there you, you can follow us on your facebook page. you can also comment on all of our stories and share them, audio and video podcasts are also available, join us at pbs.org. now as we leave you, more music from the vanderbilt chapel service. ♪ >>> major funding for "religion & ethics news weekly" is provided by the lily endowment, an indianapolis based private family foundation dedicateded to its founders efforts in religion, community development and education. additional funding by mutual of america, designing customized 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to the medical information bureau, law firms, medical practitioners? as consumers, where can we go to get our information without having something disclosed to us. this information is being used by insurance underwriters to give you a policy. it is also used for employment. basically, trying to get information as to where one can go to know what is out there for the individual. guest: one of the goals of the privacy provision in high-tech was the ability to give patients the chance to access their records. it is something that the states have been legislating for. clearly, privacy is not only limiting broken to your information, but also yo ability to get access to your information. there are a number of ways to exercise this right. first, you can go to your provider and get access to your medical information. most will be required to provide that information to you. there is information on the hhs weite on how to exercise your privacy rights under the high- tech act. under the medical bureau, they keep a central repository of records. that has been available to insurers. those records should be available to you as well. host: personasks on twitter -- guest: i completely agre