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Thing. >> those are fun. >> it stinks because you -- >> every new years you always have a toast, right? what if you have children around. are you asking your children to elm imbibe? more than 30 states allow to you serve kids alcohol in your home. but do you? and if do you, how much? >> kids under the age of 21. >> i think just having a little sip with something like that on a special event like that is not a big deal. to me it demystifies alcohol. go off to college and suddenly binge drinking. ...

No better way to empathize them than to go through the very same thing. this is the student veteran society of columbia college chicago. they started camping out two hours ago. the point is to bring attention to the broader issue of homeless veterans. for the veteran leading the charge its personal. >> in a sense were all family, and to even think about having one of my brothers in my unit on the streets, keep it even deal with that. >> now, these students are raising money for chicago shelter, ...

Underage drinking. usually when we all started college and you go, oaks i am going to pack on the freshman 15 because i will drink.but >> fox news did a report and i will ask you to follow thepo bouncing ball.rtth we went to three places.çólp the alcohol is alcoholism is a disease. as a disease you can prevent it. once you have it you can treat it. it isse a serious disease and affects almost every organ in af the body and the hearte terribly and brain and liverthe we know about, but it is a s...

Prompting all sorts of efforts to combat underraged drinking. dr. siegel, we all started college and you say, im going to pack on the freshman 15 because youre going to drink, but this is deeper than that. >> fox news did a report on this, and im going to ask you to follow the bouncing ball on this because we went to three different places, but the problem is alcoholism is a disease. as a disease, you can prevent it, and once you have it, you can treat it. it affects almost every organ in the bo...

Has been struggling with high blood sugar for years. >> i went to the doctor they said you know the numbers you have been dealing with since you were 36? you have graduated. you have type ii diabetes, young man. >> hanks appeared slim and fit on the show said he was advised to shed some pounds to control the chronic condition. >> taxpayers across the country now stopped paying for prisoners healthcare all thanks to obama care. the cost will be shifted from local to county budgets to medicaid and...

William la jeunesse live in los angeles with that story. william? >> reporter: well, jon, you know, because of their drug and alcohol problems and mental health issues, this is a very expensive population to treat. now, in the past states and counties paid the majority of medical bills for inmates, parolees and ex-cons. now, however, theyre busy making sure every inmate entering and exiting prison are signed up for obamacare, allowing them to shift those medical expenses to the federal governmen...

Did not exist, we would not know about this. i guarantee you a lot of the other politician that theyre doing in private. he needs to find other tools, other outlets. >> would you take away his cell phone? they say people with real alcohol problems is dont hang around bars. >> he needs to be in a 12-step program. it has to do with intimacy and with connection. and with self-soothing. >> can you keep him away from a computer at night? can you keep him away from being alone with a computer? >> that...

Conversation. love. first, dr. jennifer, then dr. sherry. what would you tell the wife to do? what would you tell the patient in this case to do to kill this problem, at least so we wont know about it ever again? >> you know, therein lies the problem. if the internet and social media did not exist, we would not know about this. i guarantee you a lot of the other politicians have other issues that theyre doing in private. the problem is this mans compulsion and addiction involves the internet. he...

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Depression? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: larson says she doesnt regret having the surgery and hopes others will look beyond their body size to find true happiness. >> i want to not have my goal be a size and a number. i want my goal to be strong and to run a marathon and to be comfortable in my skin. >> reporter: are you happy now? >> i am. i am pretty happy. >> reporter: abbie boudreau, abc news, salt lake city, utah. >> a tough lesson. for a lot of people. >> got beautiful outside. the inside is ...