worry about going to jail and without having to steal to pay for a fix there's a former addict dave murray told the canadian broadcasting company about his experience with an experimental prescription program in vancouver. not all that long ago dave murray would shoot up heroin in vancouver's filthy alleys he credits his turnaround with a pilot project where he was prescribed heroin by a doctor instead of buying it off the street it was the only effective as. it was in my life. every day having to find drug ultimately heroin addiction is a public health problem and if we're truly interested in doing something about it when you start treating it like a public health problem. this means to consider solutions like heroin prescription programs even though they may seem counter-intuitive or politically difficult in the end fighting heroin addiction and drug addiction in general for that matter should be dealt with in the most practical fashion possible and a medical fish that's why the united states should start its own heroin prescription program as soon as possible. as long as heroin is not a

dave partner. wyden on to get ron board. there is much more disagreement about how much revenue should be raised. to patty murray and harry that $1 trillion should be raised and that is doa with republicans. there is not going to be tax reform in the house of the senate because there would be an immediate roadblock when it got to the upper chamber. said, they put the brakes on it last december and they seemed to alleviate that hard line a little bit to allow them to put out a draft. this is a draft and this is not a real bill. it will be written in legislative language and they have to introduce it as legislation to go forward for on the houseote floor. what we're hearing from both conservatives, members of the republican caucus, and moderates, is that it is not going to go past the debate and the discussion. -- he may beo have able to have hearings on it. it will not happen until after the midterm elections on the house floor. tweeteduse floor, you about some of this this morning. morning --at in the lastly, what are these bills in the house that the house is considering? >> they will have more success with thi