On Tonight: Feb. 4, 2014

How are limits on pain pills creating new heroin addicts?

Guests:

Jeff Deeney @Jeff_Deeney
Social worker, freelance writer, and recovering heroin addict.

Sam Quinones @SamQuinones7 
Los Angeles Times reporter who is writing a book on the heroin trade.

Read about how the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman attracted attention to an increase in heroin-related deaths in the U.S., via The New York Times.

IOC president says the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics should not be "used as a stage for political dissent"

Read more about International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach's comments, via USA Today.

Guest: 

Jules Boykoff @JulesBoykoff 
Author of "Activism and the Olympics," an associate professor of political science at Pacific University, and a former U.S. Olympic soccer team member.

Dave Zirin @EdgeOfSports 
Sports editor for The Nation, host of Edge of Sports Radio, and author of "Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down."

The unknown refugee crisis

Guest:

Jeff Crisp @JFCrisp 
Senior director for policy and advocacy for Refugee International

View our photo gallery of refugees and internally displaced people in Afghanistan, Somalia, South Sudan, and Syria. 

What security threats are stemming from refugee camps?

Guest:

JJ Green @JJGreenWTOP 
National security correspondent for Al Jazeera America

Breaking the glass ceiling in politics

Guest:

Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) @ChelliePingree
Member of U.S. House of Representatives since 2009. She participated in a Tuesday panel run by The New America Foundation (@NewAmerica), "The New Founding Mothers: Women's Changing Paths to Political Power."

How did music save the life of the world's oldest Holocaust survivor?

The Oscar-nominated documentary "The Lady in Number 6" profiles 110-year-old Alice Herz-Sommer, a classical concert pianist who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp by the Nazis during World War II. 

Guests:

Malcolm Clarke
Director of "The Lady in Number 6" (@AliceTheFilm).

Nick Reed
Producer of "The Lady in Number 6."

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