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>> it is. and you know its really funny. cops have been using facebook successfully to catch dumb have toes who update their status on the house they just robbed. >> thats not helpful -- helpful for the authorities but not very helpful to those who dont want to get caught. hmm. all right. nice to see you. thank you for coming. >> always a pleasure. >> well, lets go over here and see whats happening on facebook. we have been asking you to tweet us on twitter and to write on our facebook wall and ...

Were joined from washington with a stunning report. evan, talk about this. a lot of people just werent aware of this. and you have spoken with dea officials and drug rehab centers about this problem. and how big it is. >> well, yeah, a rising problem, something i think has taken a lot of people by surprise, suzanne. the dea and the federal government has been tracking this for a couple of years. and they say the number of users has gone up dramatically. in 2002, 166,000 people who reported using...

>> evan, tell me this. why do officials say there has been such an increase in recent years? one presumes availability comes into it. >> reporter: well, yes. its cheap, its become a lot more available. were told today that you can get a dose of heroin essentially for about $6 to $10 on the streets in new york and any big city on the east coast. its -- like you said, its plentiful. the number of seizures in the southwestern border have gone up triple, according to the dea. its also become a lot m...

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>> and i imagine here too, this is something -- i mean, it was a surprise to some of us, but to others, certainly, theyre very much aware this is a big problem. what are they doing to address the large number of people who are addicted? >> reporter: well, you know, thats actually one of the big questions, how you can treat this problem. in big cities where this has been showing up, in new york, for instance, where phillip seymour hoffmans death has become the center of news, i think a lot of aut...

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>> this is a young mans life. he considered arriving at that decision. jane velez mitchell said we heard from sunny and evan. your reaction to the news. >> the death penalty is a polarizing issue and raises a lot of moral questions. i agree with sunny. if there was a case that called for the death penalty, this is it. this case has been so devastating to so many people and impacted virtually every americans life. it changed how we behave in public places. however its a very young defendant. what...

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