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Private wake for actor philip seymour hoffman is being held tonight. family and close friends have gathered at a new york funeral home. a private funeral will be held tomorrow. earlier today two of the suspects arrested in connection with the heroin found in hoffmans apartment were released after their bond hearings. juliana luchkew and max rosen blum pled not guilty. and police say vineberg had hoffmans cell phone stored in his cell phone. a fourth man not be prosecuted. the d.a.s office said t...

Inside heroins powerful pull. >> youre using right now? youre high? >> yes. >> when did you last get high? >> probably half an hour ago. >> reporter: 37-year-old well call him john says hes used heroin for more than half his life. clean for seven months last year, his body, his brain, unable to say no to the drug. >> what is it about heroin that flips that switch for you? >> i dont know. i dont know. its like its like a feeling of love, like that love that doesnt go away. >> reporter: its love. ...

You have. >> physical pain versus emotional pain. >> i used to say you cant touch me on heroin. its as if god is holding me. >> thats what it felt like. >> yeah. as if theres a fire inside of me. so to let go of that fire, its like youre asking me to do a lot. >> in the book you described a feeling of having like a demon in your spine. >> yeah. >> what is that? >> as we watched on the video, he talks about this obsession, which is heart-breaking for me to see. he cant stop. and for me i felt lik...

Another shortest cape from the inescapable. the need for more drugs. >> what does it feel like when you are denied it? >> oh, so alone. hurting. like just just painful like just hurting. >> reporter: alienated from much of his family, even his ex-wife and two kids, now unemployed. still the difficulty of getting off heroin monumentally harder than simply finding another hit. >> do you consider heroin medicine? >> yeah. yes. or i consider it a dish never thought about how i consider it, but its s...

Why hasnt it taken me out. >> reporter: miguel marquez, cnn, los angeles. >> this person also knows what its like to be in heroins grip. a former member of cirque de soleil. his memoir "acrobatic addict" i dont know why i cant say that. acrobat addict he skrieps his fall from an olympic hopeful to homeless junky. battle to beat addiction which hes done. ive been reading the book. its a really good read even though i cant pronounce the title correctly. do you relate to what that guy is saying abo...