CBS Evening News with Katie Couric will be featuring a 3-part series on prescription drug abuse beginning Monday, November 26th. Partnership President and CEO Steve Pasierb talked with Katie to offer our perspective on the issue. His interview is featured most prominently in the segment airing Monday, November 26^th at 6:30pm ET.

WEEK NOVEMBER 19 - GENERATION RX - Teen abuse of prescription drugs has TRIPLED in the past ten years. We go inside this epidemic for an intimate look at the users, dealers and people trying to fight it.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, PART 1
THE NEW CAMPUS HIGH - We meet a college kid abusing ADHD drugs to stay focused and to compete. We visit a town that lost several kids, including the Police Chief's own son. Katie Couric reports.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, PART 2
CAN MARK BE SAVED? We go to rehab with a 23-year-old addict, whose habit cost his parents everything they'd worked for. It killed his best friend. His video diary takes us on his journey to clean up. Katie Couric reports.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, PART 3
THE DEALER AND THE DOCTOR: An attractive young drug dealer shows us how he worked the strip of pain clinics so prevalent in Florida. He tells us all about his partnership with a doctor. The dealer may LOOK like a movie star, but operated like a stone cold drug lord.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, PART 4
NEW TREATMENT: DR. Sanjay Gupta: A medication that promises to make treatment for prescription drug abuse easier, more private. Suboxone controls cravings like methadone – but has none of the stigma because addicts can get it from their doctors, rather than methadone clinic. The hope is that Suboxone will do for drug addiction what SSRI's like Prozac did for depression, convince primary care physicians that addiction is a chronic brain disease, not a character flaw.