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Sharing needles. this isn't restricted to teenagers. i talked to soccer moms who found themselves addicted. a doctor who practiced in my community for 30 years is going to trial in march. federal prosecutors say he was running a pill mill that brought up to $300,000 a month. and one of the people arrest ared was a retired cop, geraldo. >> geraldo: a college educated daughter and admits to being a former prescription drug addict. has come up with a great idea to keep users from doctor shopping. her name, molly magee. her charity is called rx verify. the idea, i guess, molly, welcome to the prog...

Testing and that is when you find out. the initial stages are often without symptoms. >>heather: we should mention the states potentially involved: new hampshire, arizona, georgia, kansas, maryland, michigan, new york, and pennsylvania. how do you treat it? >>guest: well, up until recently there was no treatment. but more recently, now, there are antiviral drugs that are available and we are able to type the type of hepatitis c we have and we are able to give more appropriate and targeted therapy. the key, really, is to try to avoid getting hepatitis c which you can avoid by avoiding sharing n...

Be any waste. jenna: oh. environmentally friendly. >> and it will cut down on the spread of disease because people won't be sharing needles. jenna: everything seems great, we're going to check it out a little bit more. thanks for coming and sharing that with you. >> oh, my pleasure. jenna: i know, rick, you're excited. rick: oh, it's the worse thing, you have to hold your kids down, sign me up for it. when we come back, the high-stakes gambler helping a desperate family with money that he won at a ca casino. who he's helping this time and why. rick leventhal's here coming up. [ dr. banholzer ]...

>> of course, of course. i am not hiv positive, thank -- fortunately. because i check my status, and i know that this is very important, that you know your own status. >> wearing it, what are you saying by wearing it? >> by wearing a t-shirt like this, i'm standing in solidarity with an issue that is silent, with an issue that tends to be invisible, because the hiv virus in invisible. >> we've known about it for more than 25 years. what about it makes you think that you have to shock people by putting that on? >> the intention isn't to shock, but it's to break something called stigma. because ...

Thought you were hiv. >> of course, of course. i am not hiv positive, thank -- fortunately. because i check my status, and i know that this is very important, that you know your own status. >> wearing it, what are you saying by wearing it? >> by wearing a t-shirt like this, i'm standing in solidarity with an issue that is silent, with an issue that tends to be invisible, because the hiv virus in invisible. >> we've known about it for more than 25 years. what about it makes you think that you have to shock people by putting that on? >> the intention isn't to shock, but it's to break something c...