and dr. krantz, particularly with the older americans, and please note to let us know when one becomes older so that people can self-identify because we are quite the young generation of older americans that we're facing. i know i'll never start-stop using jeans or thinking that i'm older for heaven sakes. but indeed, i am. and so i want you to address that issue. what do the seniors need to be particularly cognizant of-and if they run into trouble, what type of programs are available? well, at hanley center, we have a prevention program, called aging to perfection. and actually our older adult unit, to answer your question, when you become old is 55 and above. so i qualify for the older adult program now. but what our aging to perfection program actually addresses is helping the older adult- first of all, you know, simple things- write down the prescriptions that they're taking when they go to the doctor because, again, they're getting multiple prescriptions from different physicians, and th

dr. martin luther king, jr. with that said, we would like to welcome each and every one of you to one of the great historical institutions in america, and that is dunbar high school, the first public african-american school in the country. in our 140-year history, we are celebrating many great in achievements from this school. one of the first is the first black general, the first black judge, the first black aviator, the first blacks senator since reconstruction, senator edwin brooks, and we include in that range eleanor norton homes, our congressional delegate from the district of columbia, and one of our great civil rights leaders, and of course one of the greatest doctors that have ever practiced medicine, dr. charles drew. these are some of the great leaders in their fields that have graduated from this great school. very quickly, throughout the world, we have many problems, but it is our job as educators to ensure that we teach our young children, we must love them, we must care for

dr. king and those leaders who joined him at the 1963 march in washington for jobs. can you say jobs? justice and equality. there are folks who are 100 -- over 250 rich and poor who came to washington, d.c. to ask our government to cash a check and that was marked insufficient funds. dr. king said to cash a check that would give this the riches of freedom and the security of justice. we are also gathered here today to renew and rededicate ourselves to completing dr. king's dream, to make real the promises of our democracy and open the doors of opportunity to all god's children. can i say amen? dr. king gave his i have a dream speech here in the nation's capital. he declared that 1963 was not an end but a beginning. change was needed to achieve his dream of economic and social opportunity for all our citizens. dr. king urged his followers that day to stay positive and return home and start working on change. dr. king, in the 1963 march, said this situation can and will be changed. they lef

[applause] what dr. king hear us today. -- let dr. king hear us today. [applause] dr. king gave us a miracle in 2008. he gave us the first african- american president in history. we ought to let that be known today. we supported our president. [applause] in the early 1990's, and made so many trips to washington -- i made so many trips to washington about the plight of black farmers in this country. a landless culture is a powerless culture. those who cannot feed ourselves should be concerned about tomorrow. my plight is your plight. what is the connection between black farmers and african- americans in this country? we have to be able to feed ourselves. if we do not own any land, we cannot feed ourselves. that ought to be important today. we filed to get a settlement in 1999. that was the largest settlement in history for black people, the black farmers supplement. 14,000 black farmers received compensation for discrimination from the department of agriculture. parking davis beat and said the president has the power. -- dr. king gave a speech and said the president has

dr. clark, how prevalent is prescription drug misuse in the united states? well, we estimate that there are approximately 15 million people who misuse prescription drugs in the united states, and that gives us an estimated 2.5 million new initiates per year, or, if you think about it, that's about 7,000 new initiates a day. and within that, do one age group uses it more than others? what is the distribution among the age groups? well, i think the most important thing to keep in mind is that prescription drug abuse affects the entire age range. we might see some peak use in the 18 to 25-year-olds, but it is a problem that confronts every age range, and what we shouldn't do is to simply dismiss it as a young adult or teenage phenomenon; in fact, it's a problem that affects every age range. dr. krantz, where do most of the nonmedical users of prescription drugs get their drugs? most of the time nonmedical users of prescription drugs receive their drugs from friends or their medicine cabinet,

thank you. >> larry: the point that dr. laura was trying to make that blacks use the word, comedians use the word on hbo, that did not resonate with you at all? >> no. because i was calling to get advice about my relationship. i don't care -- you know, it's not okay to use the word, period, but i was calling dr. laura to get advice on my relationship. >> larry: why didn't you just hang up? >> that would have been rude. i honest -- my mother taught me better than that. and that would have been rude. >> larry: were you a dr. laura fan? are you regular listener? >> i was a regular listener for -- for a while, for about five, ten years. i would listen to her every day in the car. you know, two and from wherever i was going, but i was a huge fan. >> larry: why did she call you jade? >> i like the name jade. i didn't want to call and give my real name. i mean, that's something -- i just -- i wanted a little privacy. i didn't think that this would blow up like it did, but i like the name jade. and i'd used it before when i'd calle

dr. laura says she is done with radio. did recent racially-charged comments ruin her career? >> >>> good morning, everybody. thanks for being with us. rod blagojevich is savoring a partial victory this morning. the flamboyant former governor has been convicted of only a single count in his corruption trial. >> but the celebration could be short-lived. prosecutors say they are preparing for a quick retrial on the other counts. john hendren is joining us this mornhe e on the verdict. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, vinita. a six-week trial, two weeks of jury deliberations and one conviction to show for it. but the prosecution of the former illinois governor is not over. it was a colossal setback for prosecutors. one that left former governor rod blagojevich largely in the clear and wholly defiant. >> perhaps, maybe, the biggest less learned learned is that i talk too much. >> reporter: on 23 counts, no conviction. including the most serious charge of trying to sell president

dr. h. westley clark, director, center for substance abuse treatment, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, maryland; dr. timothy condon, deputy director, national institute on drug abuse, national institutes of health, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, maryland; dr. barbara krantz, chief executive officer and medical director, hanley center, west palm beach, florida; beverly gmerek, prescription drug abuse prevention program coordinator, peer assistance services inc., denver, colorado. dr. clark, how prevalent is prescription drug misuse in the united states? well, we estimate that there are approximately 15 million people who misuse prescription drugs in the united states, and that gives us an estimated 2.5 million new initiates per year, or, if you think about it, that's about 7,000 new initiates a day. and within that, do one age group uses it more than others? what is the distribution

in the course of her rant, dr. laura, whose real name is laura schlessinger, used a racial slur multiple times. nbc's rehema ellis has more on what was said and the nerve that it touched. >> this is dr. laura -- >> reporter: on the air for more than 30 years, dr. laura schlessinger's radio program on 400 stations reaches more than 8 million listeners weekly. some were outraged that this week, dr. laura repeatedly used the "n" word on her broadcast while talking to an african-american caller who complained that her white husband's friends frequently made racist remarks. >> caller: how about the "n" the word? the "n" word's been thrown around -- >> black guys use it all the time, turn on hbo, a comic all you hear is [ bleep ]. i don't get it. if anybody without enough melanin says it's a horrible thing, but when black people say it, it's affectionate. it's very confusing. >> reporter: dr. laura said the "n" word 11 times. the next day she apologized. >> i didn't intend to hurt people but i did, and that makes it the

dr. h. westley clark, director, center for substance abuse treatment, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, maryland. richard cho, director of innovations and research, corporation for supportive housing, new haven, connecticut. robert kershaw, business owner and outreach worker, oxford house, incorporated, silver spring, maryland. dr. jesse b. milby, director, medical psychology, substance abuse and homeless research program, department of psychology, university of alabama at birmingham, birmingham, alabama. dr. clark, when is a person categorized as homeless? well, the most important thing is to recognize that when a person lacks a permanent, fixed residence, they meet the category of homeless. now, there are a number of temporary arrangements that people have; for instance, it's estimated that roughly 1.6 million people are living in transitional or shelters, and they also meet the definition of homeless. so

dr. condon, what types of drugs are we talking about? well, we've got a number of different classes, and we're always finding something new that people are abusing. but, generally, we have cns, or central nervous system depressants; tranquilizers, sedatives, that sort of thing; stimulants, very big prescription drug abuse, often used now, and we got a growing problem, as cognitive enhancers, performance enhancers; and opiod analgesics, widely prescribed for the control of pain, appropriately so in many cases, but we see that that's a source for a lot of the misuse or abused prescription opiates. dr. clark, what are the short- and long-term effects of the misuse of prescription drugs? you have to keep in mind that people take these medications for effect. so if you take a prescription pain reliever, you are experiencing some euphoria. if you take a sedative, you are experiencing some tranquilized effect. but a lot of this is complicated by the fact that people mix these medications when th

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dr. frackowiak: everything that we do, everything that we learn, every experience that we have changes the way our brain works. coyote: in order to better understand the function of plasticity within the brain, neuroscientists utilize the latest tools in brain imaging. techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fmri, have opened up entirely new understandings of the physiological transformations of the brain scientists at the wellcome trust centre for neuroimaging undertook an unusual study to better grasp the function of a part of the brain called the hippocampus. frackowiak: the hippocampus seems to be very central to memories in general the reason for that is its connections for the whole of the cortex. dr. merzenich: on the hippocampus we're you're hanging memories on a curtain of time and place. we're constructing a world in which we locate things in their three dimensional in a three dimensional realm. and we're also constructing things in the complex passage, doma

dr. milby, beyond what dr. clark has mentioned, talk to us about some of the more innovative efforts that you're familiar with. well, one of the innovative approaches, i think, is the kind of thing we've been using in birmingham, where people who are homeless-and we're, we're especially focusing on people who have crack cocaine dependence and are homeless and also have nonpsychotic co-occurring disorders. so these people are entered into an intensive treatment program, and they're offered housing that is abstinent-contingent. that's-they're modest apartments. they are provided with a box of food and flatware and cookware, and it's a furnished apartment. handed the key, and then we tell them, tomorrow morning the van'll pick you up and bring you into treatment. make sure you be there, and-but next week you need to start giving us clean urine specimens in order to stay here. so we call that abstinent -contingent housing. and that's been very effective. so it's dependent on their sobriety, on their staying off of

dr. katz and mayor newsom, and thank you all of you for helping us come out to celebrate this momentous occasion. we were founded to respond to the public health crisis of tuberculosis that was going on at the time, and we are still here. we have been here for aids, and we will be here for the swine flu, and we will be here forever next crisis that comes along. we are really grateful to the city and residents who supported the hospital and recognized its value to the community. you showed us that by passing proposition a ways and that 84% record. we are really committed to living up to the state that you have put in all of us. san francisco general hospital has touched many lives, and we heard that throughout the campaign as we went around and talked to people. we have heard many stories about how they were connected or have someone that they knew that they cared about was connected to the hospital. i am one of those people. my first encounter with san francisco general was as a trauma pa

dr. mitch katz, who deserves so much credit for getting us here. i think the commission behind me for their stewardship, and to all the men and women at work in this remarkable place that change people's lives each and every day. 100,000 direct lives are changed, but every time i come here, i realize you are not just saving patients. you are taking care of families, mothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, mothers, brothers. i have seen it too many times, the faces of those parents. i cannot even keep a straight face because it is so difficult to see someone in pain, but to see the pride on their face because of the job you have done. i'm just happy we are here to extent that magic, to share our values in a most meaningful and substantive way. i'm glad to kick off this remarkable institution that combines the best of san francisco. congratulations to all of us for being here today. thank you, mr. mayor. -- >> thank you, mr. mayor. when i needed for this project to go forward to the voters, i need

stateline tried to speak with dr whitley but she declined to be interviewed. it seems that in this whole area all the army can do is apologize in fact we're the first thing we do is apologize because we do recognize that there is a problem that reflects a society wide problem to say it's reflective of society is to dismiss the extent of the problem though isn't it because the problem is much bigger in the military then the real world we're acting aggressively on the problem and so the farthest thing we're doing is dismissing it what we're saying is we recognize that this part of a larger piece the piece that we can act on is a piece in the army and that's what we're acting directly on and none of that is any consolation to john johnson look at video he is running down the left sad of her body which clearly implicates this she was lying on her lips side when she died knowing that not only her back like why what she was found thank him and his family this is and says goes on every piece of evidence they have had to be forced out of the army using freedom of info

. >> dr. worden, thank you for being with us this morning. we continue our nasa theme this morning after the break with perhaps one of nasa's least favorite former employees, former lunar module pilot and moon walker, ed mitchell, when "press: here" continues. >>> welcome back to "press: here." when my next guest was 40 years old, he took a trip that changed his life. ed mitchell stepped on the moon february 5, 1971, as the sixth man to do so his name isn't as well known as neil armstrong but he gained fame when he revealed he conducted experiments into extra sensory perception, esp, during the flight, and made more waves when he said he believed creatures from other planets had visited earth. nasa, by the way, does not agree with dr. mitchell on that point. dr. mitchell was not able to meet with us here this sunday morning so i pretaped an interview with him ahead of time. one note in the interview i called the organization he founded the institute of noetic sciences school. dr. mitchell that

and he knew dr. scofield because he had known dr. scofield for many years but he did not remember the residents or the people who had been with him just around the time. >> how long did you work with him, brenda. >> i met him in 1955, which was a year and-a-half after the surgery. i used to go down to hartford and test him. we had him in montreal for a week. >> did he remember you at any time. >> oh, no, he never. even when i would go down to hartford and typically would spend three days. and during those three days, i could spend a session with him that we're talking across this table, i was talking and working with him and i would go back and it would be after lunch i would meet him and he would just look plankly. i want to exercise he was an extremely plight person. >> how did you discover there was any memory capability. >> well the challenge for me was whether he could learn something, you know. this was obviously a challenge. you can't just say, you can't learn until you've tried. so i would go to the, over to the psychology de

dr. katz? >> i think you have shown a tremendous amount of insight into why this has happened, because it really speaks to the heart of people feeling there is a problem, and is not being well salts, and it is natural in that situation to feel that, well, here is a potential solution, let's try that. i guess in my mind, there is a renewed commitment on the part of san franciscans to do something meaningful, but for people who are impacted themselves and for their family members. but they have often been made to feel this and powered by the system. often on the fringes, watching their relatives deteriorated. we need to be more responsive to that, and maybe we can use this dialogue and this difficult conversation. i have heard from so many people, to really know go forward with something better. maybe we have not put enough into this issue. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you president chiu: . -- thank you. president chiu: supervisor mar? supervisor mar: i have similar concerns that some of my collea

dr. h. westley clark, u.s. department of health and human services, substance abuse and mental health services administration, center for substance abuse treatment. dr. jane maxwell, senior research professor, university of texas at austin, golf coast addiction technology transfer center; lisa mojer-torres, esquire, consumer advocate, faces & voices of recovery; mark parrino, founder and president, american association for the treatment of opiod dependence (aatod). dr. clark, let's talk a little bit about medication-assisted therapies and how they're used. well there are a number of medications that are used to help facilitate recovery from substance use disorders. the most popular and most prominent would be buprenorphine and methadone. but there are also medications used for the treatment of alcohol. examples of that would be naltrexone and the camprosate or disulfiram. what they're used to do is to either facilitate the recovery of persons through maintenance, as with methadone or bupr

dr johnson believes this move. next to his daughter's body is evidence that someone tried to cover this the young he says there's no evidence to back that. the fire inside the tent resulted from p.f.c. johnson sitting some papers on she used to accelerate to ignite several pages that she had ripped out of a notebook which is believed to have been a diary. the army investigators also claim that living in his behavior prior to did pointed to suicide but her. own company commanders statement suggested otherwise this soldier was clearly happy and seemingly very healthy physically and emotionally. with no suicide note no recovered baluch no significant gunshot residue on her hands and injuries to johnson's belief look cool is by an attack on they decided to push on with their own inquiries and use force taking you behind the scenes of the investigation into the death of a local soldier dead a private living at johnson is clouded in controversy and allegations of a cover up new source matt says he was a johnson's head le

dr. king surprised people all the time. and following in his footsteps, remembering what he really said, he had a dream that black people and white people would join together, that there would be unity. and so, now that glenn says, faith, hope and charity, and honor, those are things that my uncle supported and believed in. >> reporter: what do you think your uncle would make of glenn beck? >> my uncle would love glenn beck. he would love anybody. he would say, love your neighbors. glenn lives in america. my uncle lived in america. my uncle would love him. >> reporter: would he agree with the message? >> i can't say that. >> reporter: what do dr. king's children make of you? >> they love me. and i love them. >> reporter: do they agree with you? >> not all the time. >> reporter: do they agree with you being here? >> they know i'm here. they didn't call and say, what you are doing there? and i haven't called my cousin martin. we didn't do that. >> reporter: do you think you're being used by glenn beck? >> i think i'm being us

dr. clark, some groups have come forward and have shared concerns with the public about the use of methadone and other medication-assisted therapies. are their concerns warranted? i think whenever you have complications associated with a medical treatment, the concerns of advocacy groups and of citizens should be taken seriously. one of the things that we're trying to do is to make sure that practitioners are in the field because we believe that the majority of these adverse events are occurring amongst pain docs prescribing for pain, and we want to educate those docs about that. we also believe that a clinic system which has over 1,100 clinics, you may have practitioners who are not as knowledgeable about what it is that they should know. and consumer groups can help bring that to their attention so that we can redouble our efforts to make sure that all of our credited and certified programs are practicing the best medicine possible or providing the best treatment possible. this is healt

dr. laura? i mean, i think dr. laura was shocked and she was really, like really ticked off, that this black woman called into her show. i think that's why she went off. she was like, wait a minute, you mean to tell me all these years i've been giving free advice to a bunch of -- you know. so she just went off. these -- calling my show. i think that's why she -- >> larry: she says that black comedians use the n-word. >> what does that have to do with anything? this woman is calling for advice on her, you know, on her marriage. she's not calling on notes for an hbo special. why -- it didn't make any sense at all. i mean, i think dr. laura -- she's probably been saying the n-world for years but it's the first time a black person was actually listening to her show. i did black, larry, for 46 years. and my entire 46 years, i've never heard one of my back friends start a conversation with, you know, i was listening to dr. laura the other day. >> larry: let me get a break. we'll be right back with -- >> white people stuf

drake. >> frank drake. >> dr. drake, dr. drake used those words to describe it practically. >> i don't know if it was a rogue, but i would say -- >> it was dismissed. >> frank did the first search about 40 years ago. and at the time, it was very difficult technologically to look at a lot of frequencies or at a lot of stars. but, since that time the national academy of sciences in every one of its surveys of astronomy and astrophysics has endorsed seti. so if there were any concerns about it decades ago, we now have multiple peer reviews by both the astrofizzy sists and biologiologists that have endorsed it. >> are you talking about the committee on origin -- >> that's right. >> just so everybody understands this, this is not a pseudoscience, we're not talking about roswell, aliens, this is an entirely different subject. >> this is a sipe tick search. >> the seti institute in mount view california. the nexus of such efforts in the u.s. has accomplished in a spectacular wait founding of the science institute and the procuremen

dr. francis collins, the director of the national institutes of health-- which is a major center of stem cell research-- reacted to the decision today in a conference call with reporters. >> i was stunned, as was virtually everyone here at n.i.h., by the judicial decision yesterday. this decision has the potential to do serious damage to one of the most promising areas of biomedical research, and just at the time when we were really gaining momentum. as we understand the department of justice's ruling, grantees that already have awards from n.i.h. are permitted to continue their research and need not stop in place. >> woodruff: late today, the department of justice said it would appeal judge lamberth's decision in the stem cell case. two views now on the decision, and what it will mean from people who have worked in this field. dr. evan snyder is director of the stem cell research center at sanford-burnham medical research institute; and david prentice is senior fellow for life sciences a