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Bit. because she figured out my writing back to her the way i figured it out. its like we were on the same wavelength. i dont know who would have picked up on that kind of thing, but we did. coming up -- >> youll see most heroin users are really close to their moms. >> an insignature into a unique aspect of bergen countys heroin problem. >> thats why i call it mamas boy drug. >> one inmate in the drug rehab center thrives while another is forced to drop out. >> hes a guy i cant have back here....

Texting. >> yes, but nobody has done it before. and it is weird that we connect on a different level. >> i will not lie, a tear came to my eye and i got choked up a little bit, because she figured out i was writing out to her, and she was writing back to me, and it is like we were on the same wavelength and i dont know who would have picked up on that kind of thing, but we did. >> coming up -- >> you will see that most heroin users are very close to their moms. >> insight into a unique aspect of...

They know its affordable, food stamps are a never-ending cycle but do you want to be the party that goes to the poor and says take that back. >> demagoged to death. youre told youre taking food out of the mouths of children. youre making people starve. you are bad because youre cutting. you cant win. >> its just so interesting. spend more money going around the system than cut from the system. >> how will we ever get a handle on our debt if you cant cut $8 billion out of food stamps over a ten-y...

Counsel voted to decriminalize the drug, scaling back the fine to just 25 bucks, similar to that of a parking ticket. here is some local reaction. >> well, i think its a pretty good idea. since the punishments are not equally spaced, that the decriminalization will make a more equitable law enforcement. >> all right. there is one good idea. but not everyone thinks its a good idea. patrick kennedy is waging what some call a fierce anti pot campaign. he worries widespread legalization of marijuana...

Guess are there a set of best ways that you think this problem of heroin use, whether it be the age of 12 or 21 or 31 and 41, how do you tackle it? >> first of all, if you have a child like you all kind of showed in this clip beforehand, if you have a child at 12, 14, 16 doing heroin, you have bigger problems than heroin. people still have to parent. thats related to parenting. thats not so much a heroin problem. thats a parenting problem. we need to make sure we dont conflate bad parenting or p...

To the growing heroin problem. nationwide heroin use has surged doubling -- more than doubling over the past ten years. our deborah feyerick is looking into it. >> the more you make the more you sell. its more seizures, more arrests and more overdoses. one high level drug official described heroin as a monster you cant kill. it has always been lurking. the question, how did it get here? you have to go back to the 1990s when columbian drug traffickers began flooding the city with high purity, l...

Drug laws being too severe, people going to jail for drug crimes. >> a lot of celebrities have been arguing about -- >> should have diminished sentences now. under new york laws now not the rockefeller laws, all of the drug dealers can get probation under the new laws. >> probation? >> absolutely, yeah. >> thats interesting. makes you think twice about the recent debate. thanks to paul. the death of philip seymour hoffman has raised new awareness to the growing heroin problem. for weeks, we be...

Hoffmans apartment. and that night he had spoken by phone with his long-time partner and mother of his three children, mimi odonnell. she later told authorities he sounded high. well be following that. i dont know. >> have you guys talked about the huge prevalence of the growing heroin problem? >> we have. >> im for going after the dealers like they say. a lot of people are like who gave it to him, who gave it to him. it reminds me of the michael jackson jackson where they prosecuted the doctors...

Accessibility of drugs for celebrities but the fact that nobody tells them no, everybody yeses them, sometimes literally to death, and also the fact that theres no barrier to entry when it comes down to simply the dollars and cents of being able to afford to have a very high-class so to speak drug problem. >> it sounded like he was trying, from what ive read, he was at an aa meeting like january 26th. >> that was his last one. i guess about two months ago, he had started drinking again, supposed...

Maybe i should stop doing this or maybe i should try to find help. >> he said he hopes that if anything positive comes out of this, maybe it can be a teaching moment. although, he did say he doesnt know theres any great lessons now that someone so important to him is gone. there will be a private service held in new york. also a memorial service later on this month. >> it does shine a very needed bright light on the heroin problem. >> you guys were talking about that yesterday. if there is anyth...