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The u.s. district court there in washington. catherine, thank you. reporter: you re welcome. shannon: disturbing new research about prescription drug use of u.s. soldiers coming home from war. according to a new study 15% of returning soldiers used painkillers in the past month. that is four times higher than average in the general public. he run as recovery problem rebound brooklyn. and we have a clinical research psychologist at walter reed institute and leading author of the study. i welcome you both. commander, i want to start with you. what did you find specifically and were you surprised with any of these results? first which found 44% of infantry soldiers that came home from war three months prior, experiencing chronic pain, pain more than three months in duration and 15% had used opioid painkiller. we were surprised by high percentage of soldiers that had chronic pain. we know soldiers come home from ....
Chance of four more years. was it really that off? i think the president has a tremendous talent for giving pedestrian words with a lot of self assurance. this was really not a remarkable speech. the only craft i saw whether attacks which were clever. but the problem was not the craft it was the complacency of the speech. almost nothing to say about the job crisis or debt crisis that undermines economic confidence. the policy agenda was tired and small like a 7th state of the union address with all the leftovers. i think this is the president s problem. he doesn t have a rhetorical problem but an economic recovery problem. shannon: when he came into the convention last time air was exciting and new. he had not had to make some of these tough policy decisions. we weren t struggling as bad as ....