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But they increase the risks that someone is going to be able to stay sober, that they won't relapse dramatically. these are block -- they're opiate blockers, that they take away the craving and they block an addict from getting high after treatment. and there's no reason why anyone in his position, in mr. monteith's position should not be treated with these medications that work. >> and david, is the -- is there a course of treatment with those kinds of medications where they get ramped down over time, or is the notion that you would stay with them for a protracted period of time? >> no, most ...

0 by this policy and it being used by the police in a very unjust way. and on so many levels it, you know, restores hope back to the community that, you know, this is unjust and your voice does count. >> khary, i think if you could read one thing about stop and frisk it would be nicholas's op-ed piece. we'll have a link to it on our website tonight. because it is that very important firsthand account of a young man's encounter with these kinds of stops and the evolution of his thinking and what it can do over time in these kinds of large numbers to really sour a community. >> that's absolutely...

0 hopelessness. >> ultimately counterproductive. >> a landmark day for civil rights advocates on au pair of issues. >> this totally rewrites the conversation. >> one national, one local, both historic. last week, when president obama said this, his attorney general, eric holder, was apparently listening. >> we all know that young african-american men disproportionately have involvement in criminal activities and violence. for a lot of reasons. a lot of it having to do with poverty. a lot of it having to do with disruptions in their neighborhoods, in their communities, failing schools, and al...

0 >> sherrilynn ifill is the president and director of the naacp's he education fund. george pataki a former governor of the great state of new york. these are called terry stops. in a terry stop, a police officer needs to be operating on more than a hunch. the way new york city was carrying out stop and frisk the judge said resulted in an indirect form of racial profiling. >> yeah, i totally disagree with the judge, michael. you're probably not surprised by that. i think what we have seen is a dramatic reduction in violent crime in the city. there will be at least 2,000 fewer murderers this y...

imagination of a lot of people who are more broadly unhappy with prime minister erdogan's rule. >> brown: margaret warner reports on hezbollah's increasing role in syria's bloody civil war and the fight for a key syrian city. >> troops have turnedded the tide in the battle for the town of qusair. >> ifill: ray suarez has the story of the court-martial of bradley manning, the army soldier charged with the biggest leak of classified information in u.s. history. >> brown: and we close with a look back at the career and political legacy of frank lautenberg, the long-time new jersey senat...