This is a special four-hour series examining America's vast efforts during the past three decades to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the country. The drug wars have absorbed hundreds of billions of dollars, altering the criminal justice system and putting millions of people in jail. Yet despite this expenditure, the use of heroin, cocaine, marijuana and other illicit drugs remains essentially unchanged. An epidemic of eating disorders is spreading through America's youth, a contagion fanned by the media's obsession with wafer-thin celebrities. For millions of young Americans, the conflict between real and fashionable images of the body can be a matter of life or death.
Complications can include low blood pressure, bone loss and damage to the kidneys, liver and heart.
This program takes viewers behind the scenes at laboratories and hospitals where specialists are experimenting with new approaches to eating disorders. She was the nation's conscience, an outspoken advocate for the disadvantaged. She influenced American social policies for decades and pushed through the first international charter on human rights. But behind Eleanor Roosevelt's apparent success is a story rooted in early tragedy and a lifelong struggle against depression. Eleanor Roosevelt is a compelling and intimate biography of the remarkable public achievements and surprising private life of one of the century's most influential figures.