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>> gregg: dr. mark siegle is a member of the a team and at nyu medical center. always good to see you. let's divide this into two parts. we'll get to antidepressants in a moment. but let's talk about pain killers. how abused are they? >> the michael jackson case caught my eye with that because there was talk this week of him having been on demerol. i have to tell you, pain killers are the number one problem in the united states with prescription drug abuse. 7 million americans overuse prescription drugs, but pain killers, 80% of the pain killers in the world are prescribed right here in the un...

2:38. now we know who received that call. she said that it was her number. it was a 50 second call. she doesn't quite admit this meghan wright, i believe her name is. she doesn't quite admit she answered the call, but the parents told us, look, we couldn't make any outgoing calls and if you couldn't make any outgoing calls, why is it that this person received a call from one fortunate cell phones you say was taken by the kidnapper or kidnappers. >> gregg: the whole thing is very bizarre. the parents have disappeared now, right? bill stanton whisked them away is it. >> apparently a a woman knoc...

The afghans aren't fully capable of preventing the attacks. >> heather: thank you very much. >> gregg: now to syria, security forces launching a brutal crackdown in the eastern city of palm. three people were killed today, syrian troops unleashed heavy machine-gun fire and conducted early morning raids, coming a day after 40 protestors were reported killed in one of bloodiest days in the seven-month uprising against syria's president. reena ninan has the report. >> gunfire and sweeping raids by president assad has killed three people today. this is coming just one day after one of the deadlies...

Doctors. the anesthesiology department, one out of four has one doctor abusing it. >> heather: when it comes to antidepressants, apparently i'm 2 1/2 times more likely to be taking them than gregg because i'm a woman? >> right. exactly. over 12% of the americans over the age of 12 are taking antidepressants. but the problem is that the wrong people are taking them. a lot of times it is women that are taking them wrongly. for those severely depressed, one third is taking them, when 100% should be on. the problem is that people get on them, they stay on for the wrong reasons. here is the worst p...

Competence. >> heather: thank you peter doocy in washington. >> gregg: on to the campaign and a political tussle in the tea party. michele bachmann has long been a favorite of that movement but the support may be slipping big time. one tea party group is now calling for the minnesota congresswoman to pull the plug on her presidential campaign. she calls it a political dirty trick. what does it mean for bachmann if she is no longer the darling of the tea party? steven dennis with us. white house reporter for roll call. head of the tea party group is accusing her of an opportunist but the group ...