>> botticelli: it is.f heroin could be as cheap as $5, $10. >> pelley: more than 120 americans die of drug overdoses each day. that is more than car wrecks or gun violence. to save lives, botticelli started an experiment in 2010 with the quincy, massachusetts, police. lieutenant patrick glynn is head of narcotics. >> patrick glynn: when someone dies of an overdose, the community becomes very, very small. everyone knows each other, even in a large city as ours. just recently, in the past four to six months, some of our officers have lost children. >> pelley: in a city of about 100,000 people, did i just understand you to say that some of your officers have lost children to drug overdoses? >> glynn: yes. >> pelley: how many? >> glynn: two did. two... they... two of them lost sons. >> pelley: in what period of time? >> glynn: within the last six months. >> pelley: botticelli helped arm every quincy officer with naloxone, a nasal spray antidote for overdose. lieutenant glynn saw it work on an unconscious addic

michael botticelli is the director of the national drug control policy. he leads the administration's drug policy efforts, and is responsible were creating an annual national drug control strategy. previously, he served as the director of substance abuse substances at the massachusetts department of public health. an undergraduate degree at siena college, and a masters of education at st. lawrence university. we are glad you are back. richard hartunian, the u.s. attorney, northern district new york. prior to his confirmation,n he served as assistant u.s. attorney for 12 years. he is a graduate of georgetown university, albany law school of union university. chuck rosenberg has served as acting administrator of the dea since may of 2015. he began his career service -- his career in public service as an assistant of public attorney in virginia from 1994 to 2000. after a few years in the private sector he served in a series of senior positions in law enforcement, including console to then fbi director mueller of the fbi, and to then attorney general, and the

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i heard it stated through michael botticelli and others that 80% of those who oh d. on heroin in this country, not fatal, total ods committee% started their addiction to opioids by being addicted to prescription opioids. and then transition to heroin because they could get it for a lower price. is that an accurate statement of? >> no. i'm glad you asked that question. of the numbers of individuals who nonmedical use opioids and then transition into heroin, that number is relatively small. it's about three-point -- that's correct. so the nonmedical use of a prescription opioid like oxycontin in kind of the traditional got the medicine cabinet, data from friends or family members, the percentage of those individuals who transition to heroin use is relatively low. it's about 3.6% but conversely of individuals who are not treatment users of heroin, 80% of them actually abused a prescription opioid in the past. so while there's not a direct causation between the two, a non-use of opioids is a strong risk factor for eventual heroin use. >> and even the medical use of opioi

botticelli was drunk. in truth he had been drunk for years. >> reporter: did you love drinking? >> i would say i had an unhealthy love affair with drinking. you know, i grew up as this kind of insecure kid. you know, kind of making my way. and you know, drinking took all of that away. you know, people drink and do drugs for a reason because it makes them feel good. until it doesn't anymore. >> reporter: is it true after the accident you wok up handcuffed to a gurney? >> i did. i did. and you know you think to yourself. how did i get to this point? you know in my life?% >> reporter: that point included imminent eviction from his apartment because the booze had washed away all of the money. >> very wise judge said, michael, you have two options. you can either get care for your drinking problem or we can continue with criminal proceedings. >> reporter: it was at that point that you walked into this church and went to the -- 12 step meeting in the basement? >> i did. >> reporter: what was the first meeting like? >>> it's hard for me to talk about this. not from a since of sadness.

to echo michael botticelli, we believe by performing significant review we can balance the risks posed by illicit risk of these compounds well preserving the need to develop new understanding. they're committed to working with other partners on science in this area to understand and enhance the timely and appropriate assessment of these. we hope that as the committee explores ways of addressing the problem we will continue to give the relevant federal agencies an opportunity to share perspectives including solutions that would address the threat to public health and safety posed by these dangerous compounds. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. i am happy to answer any questions i can. >> i would ask my colleagues who will take five minutes and we won't have second round because we have five witnesses on the second panel and i want to make sure that they have their opportunity to testify before the committee as well. we will start with mr. r tuning in. it appears from your written testimony that you and some of your colleagues have had success prosecuting cases pur

>> scott pelley: michael botticelli is the's drug czar. just don't call him that. >> it's actually a title that i don't like. >> pelley: why? >> because i think it connotes this old "war on drugs" focus to the work that we do. it portrays that we are clinging to kind of failed policies and failed practices in the past. >> pelley: are you saying that the way we have waged the war on drugs for more than 40 years has been all wrong? >> it has been all wrong. >> stahl: tonight we pay tribute to muhammad ali by <

. >> scott pelley: michael botticelli is the president's drug czar.t don't call him that. >> it's actually a title that i don't like. >> pelley: why? >> because i think it connotes this old "war on drugs" focus to the work that we do. it portrays that we are clinging to kind of failed policies and failed practices in the past. >> pelley: are you saying that the way we have waged the war on drugs for more than 40 years has been all wrong? >> it has been all wrong. >> stahl: tonight we pay tribute to muhammad ali by rebroadcasting a story that captured him like none other. at the time he was suffering from parkinson's, yet with his wit and spirit intact as the late ed bradley found out.

botticelli thank you for inviting me back to discuss issues of synthetic drugs. they're all a tremendous concern of the administration. i focused my opening remarks on new psychoactive substances. there sometimes known as designer drugs or legal high. they are designed to mimic the effects of illegal drugs. in december 2015 the united nations estimated there are over 600 on the global market. the vast majority of these not controlled under drug control authorities. there often mixed with material to form a dangerous package in alluring packaging. those products can very from batch to batch. they have no known medical use in many pose a serious threat to public health. i appreciate that he is here from iowa to talk about his son's tragic death associated with this use. there are many young people who are a testament to the deadly effect these synthetic drugs are having on our community. although they have developed responses to control this, the ease in which it can be manufactured makes controls challenging. according to the dea, nearly all are manufactured in ch

. >> scott pelley: michael botticelli is the president's drug czar. just don't call him that. >> it's actually a title that i don't like. >> pelley: why? >> because i think it connotes this old "war on drugs" focus to the work that we do. it portrays that we are clinging to kind of failed policies and failed practices in the past. >> pelley: are you saying that the way we have waged the war on drugs for more than 40 years has been all wrong? >> it has been all wrong. >> stahl: tonight we pay tribute to muhammad ali by rebroadcasting a story that captured him like none other. at the time he was suffering from parkinson's, yet with his wit and spirit intact as the late ed bradley found out.

the director of national drug control policy, michael botticelli, who has stated that we need a comprehensive solution, was quoted as saying "there is clear evidence that a multi-ifaceted approach is tremendously important. we know that we need to do more and i think all of those components put forward in cara are critical to make headway in terms of this epidemic." that's the white house drug czar. i hope the white house staffer who was quoted "let's delay" actually talks to the drug czar. nearly every democrat in this chamber voted in support of care ravment i commend them for that. democrats were indispensable in crafting it. they were involved at the very start. sheldon whitehouse is the coauthor of this legislation with me. he has a real passion for this. he understands the casualties of this epidemic. he gets it. amy klobuchar has also been very involved in this, along with kelly ayotte on our side, and others. this has been something from the start that has been not just nonpartisan but bipartisan. they came up with the right ideas and the groups that work with us around the country re

michael botticelli is director of national drug control policy.leads the administration's drug policy efforts and is responsible for creating a manual of national drug control strategy. previously he served as director of substance abuse services at massachusetts department public health. an undergraduate degree at sienna college and a masters of education. we invite you back and we're glad you're back here. richard hartunian is a u.s. attorney, northern district new york. prior to his confirmation, he served as assistant u.s. attorney for 12 years. he is a graduate of georgetown university, albany law school of union university. chuck rosenberg has served as acting administrator for the dea since 2015. began his career of public service as an assistant u.s. attorney eastern district virginia from 94 to the year 2000. after a few years in the private sector, he served in a series of senior positions in law enforcement, including consul to then fbi director muller, consul to then attorney general ashcro ashcroft, and chief of staff to then general

botticelli said he thought this was a good bill, it was important to be comprehensive. he also went to new hampshire for a hearing and said he supported the legislation in front of senator shaheen and senator ayotte. he was supposed to come to ohio but at the last minute decided that he could not attend our hearing in ohio. i'm told yesterday he held a press briefing with ohio reporters. i've been trying to reach him today unsuccessfully but apparently he thought it was necessary to go to ohio reporters to talk about this issue. among those on the call, by the way, was at least one democratic local official. maybe a few. i'm not sure because i wasn't told about the call to ohio. i'm from ohio. i'm the coauthor of the bill. in that call, he said things that led the reporters to believe that he thought cara did not go far enough, that it wasn't the appropriate response to this epidemic. now, look, i understand there is an election every two years here in america, and that's fine. but i have known every single drug czar since the first one, bill bennett. all of them. i hav

. >> i have heard it stated through michael botticelli and whors that 80% of those overdose on heroin in this country started their addiction to opioids by being addicted to prescription opioids and then transitioning to heroin because they could get it for a lower price. is that an accurate statement? >> know, senator and i am glad you asked that question. of the numbers of individuals use oper ically oids and then transition into heroin, that number is very small. >> nonmedical use? >> that is correct. so, the nonmedical use of oxycontin, and the nontraditional sense of getting it from the medicine cabinet. the percentage of those who transition to heroin is about 3%. use heroin, that 80% of those have abused opioids even medical use can be a risk factor. t

there was a wonderful fresco by botticelli of a student being led to other arts by grammar. is personified as a beautiful woman. overlooking them is wisdom. one of the things we don't realize is that lang was incredibly complicated. when we speak -- i was in a hotel recently. -- some he asked me what i wanted. i said in omelette with everything except the meat.the omelette came with everything -- with nothing but the meant. -- meat. limited insh was using "except" is a collocated concept in language. " it is veryno meat clear. we don't realize how collocated language is. doctrinelly, christian -- saint augustine argues you have to learn the line which to read scripture. one of the crisis in the muslim world is that it's no longer taught. people are reading scripture without the liberal arts. you don't know what a conditional sentences, you should not be reading scripture other than a conventional practice. but if you think you can derive knowledge from it, you were going to get into trouble. there are many things in the quran that are highly nuanced in the islamic tradition.