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Bit. because she figured out my writing back to her the way i figured it out. it's like we were on the same wavelength. i don't know who would have picked up on that kind of thing, but we did. coming up -- >> you'll see most heroin users are really close to their moms. >> an insignature into a unique aspect of bergen county's heroin problem. >> that's why i call it mama's boy drug. >> one inmate in the drug rehab center thrives while another is forced to drop out. >> he's a guy i can't have back here. to me, what he did was -- was that serious. unfortunately, he blew his shot. i love kiwis. ...

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 don't 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 bergen county's heroin problem. >> that is why i call them mama's boy drug. >> and while one thriv...

They know it's 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. you're told you're taking food out of the mouths of children. you're making people starve. you are bad because you're cutting. you can't win. >> it's 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 can't cut $8 billion out of food stamps over a ten-year period? how will you do it? >> stuart varney, hope we can grow our way out of it and get...

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 it's 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 it's a good idea. patrick kennedy is waging what some call a fierce anti pot campaign. he worries widespread legalization of marijuana could cause what he calls a public health nightmare. and the former congressman is joining me now...

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. that's related to parenting. that's not so much a heroin problem. that's a parenting problem. we need to make sure we don't conflate bad parenting or parental issues -- >> then how do you thaep 12-year-old, bad parenting, but how do you reach that...