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Here. >> inside her car, police find what they say is $300 worth of heroin and three syringes. >> thats why im doing this because im addicted to it, and you know -- >> how long have you been out here? >> involved in prostitution? >> almost a year. >> thats what youre feeding the addiction -- >> she has been in prostitution for about a year. she has an addiction problem with heroin, and she feeds that addiction through prostitution. >> back at the state police post, dana confesses shes been fight...

What they say is $300 worth of heroin and three syringes. >> thats why im doing this because im addicted to it, and you know -- >> how long have you been out here? >> involved in prostitution? >> almost a year. >> thats what youre feeding the addiction -- >> she has been in prostitution for about a year. she has an addiction problem with heroin, and she feeds that addiction through prostitution. >> back at the state police post, dana confesses shes been fighting heroin addiction for over two yea...

A drug problem. >> so you have drugs in the car, no big deal. >> okay. >> she said she has a bunch of heroin in here. >> this is probably it right here. >> inside her car, police find what they say is $300 worth of heroin and three syringes. >> thats why im doing this because im addicted to it, and you know -- >> how long have you been out here? >> involved in prostitution? >> almost a year. >> thats what youre feeding the addiction -- >> she has been in prostitution for about a year. she has an...

We dont arrest, prosecute and jail them. thats nonsense. you get locked up because youre involved in felony offenses, youre a chroniced a difficult, youre unemployed, you got stds, everybody hates you except your mother. chronic addiction has gone up, i might add, in the last three years. only now its synthetic opiates. so what we say in the drug treatment field is we dont care what your addiction problem is, were concerned about its impact on your physical health, your employment, your family r...

we are still -- were still a young nation, and weve got the greatest diversity of talent and ingenuity that comes from every corner of the globe. nobody knows that better than florida. so no matter what the naysayers tell us, no matter how dark the other side tries to paint the situation, there is not another country on earth that would not gladly trade places with the united states of america. >> president obama firing up the crowd there, winter park, florida. you heard them chanting,...

>> tony taukts about fomo, fear of missing out. some of it is not the essential news we have to have for our job, but fear of lacking the information, like the ads where its "thats so 49 seconds ago." >> tony, we are reliant on these devices for work and for life. whats the solution? >> we need to remind ourselves we are tools and we are in control of them. if youre not getting what you want to get out of your relationship with your blackberry, you should re-evaluate it. >> what if youre getting...

Of heroin and three syringes. its just enough of a fix to get the young woman through the night. >> whats so wrong with you that youre getting addicted to it? you dont appear to be a girl that needs to be on that stuff. >> i know. thats why im doing this because im addicted to it, you know. >> how long have you been out here? >> what do you mean? >> involved in prostitution. >> almost a year, since last january. >> and thats how youre feeding the addiction? shes been a prostitute for about a yea...

certainly goes a long way. >> and the president gets interrupted, i would say heckled, by a conservative reporter. jose happen tonio vargas, the journalist and illegal immigrant on the cover of "time" joins us discussion. it was the high watermark for modern journalism. 40 years ago today when police found a group of unusually well-dressed burglars at the watergate. a story covered by two local metro reporters. >> we would have coffee every morning off the newsroom floor. put a dime, w...

Heroin in here. >> this is probably it right here. >> inside her car, police find what they say is $300 worth of heroin and three syringes. >> thats why im doing this because im addicted to it, and you know -- >> how long have you been out here? >> involved in prostitution? >> almost a year. >> thats what youre feeding the addiction -- >> she has been in prostitution for about a year. she has an addiction problem with heroin, and she feeds that addiction through prostitution. >> back at the stat...

Health issue, which is to say we would rather not have a country to that overconsumes a tremendous amount of mind altering chemicals, period. >> well, thats a good point about legal medications and things. today there is a story about how teens are getting high off of hand sanitizer. >> like russell said, kids will always want to get high. >> again it is an addiction problem, not a crime problem. >> they want to be clean. >> san a sanitary and high. >> thats because they are americans. europe wo...