who's using heroin now?ony: today's heroin epidemic is different than the one that raged through america in the 1970s in a few significant ways. back then, heroin was mostly seen as a poor people problem, somebody else's problem. sort of thing that musicians and criminals got into. marginal people, far from the white main streets of mayberry, usa. what those people did to themselves, well, it was unfortunate, but not our problem. until somebody broke into your house. today, it's absolutely the reverse. the new addicts are almost entirely white, middle class, and from towns and areas like this. how do you think you make it better? >> carmen: you don't. >> anthony: whoa. you don't? >> carmen: no, there's going to be more robberies, there's going to be more killings. take one person off the street here, two more come in. >> anthony: at peak how many customers do you have? >> carmen: probably all of greenfield. >> anthony: what happened? how did the kid next door, along with mom, pop, and grandma too become user

with the kid. >> reporter: poppy, the raw material for heroin. the workers use sawed-off deodorant gum deodorant from the boppy buds. >> you're getting the gum out of the poppy? >> yeah, yeah. >> reporter: here among the armed workers, we find a grandmother recently deported from los angeles. she's now petitioning to return. >> you miss your family? >> really. yeah, very much. very much. >> reporter: she says she's an uber driver and harvests poppies on the side. >> obviously you know this because you lived in the united states, but the heroin epidemic is a huge problem. do you have any concerns about being part of it? >> i need the money only. doing this, i feel very bad. i feel like dirty, you know, but i need money. >> build that wall! build that wall! >> build that wall! >> reporter: in the age of trump, mexico has become a heated part of the national debate. >> they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. >> reporter: but often overlooked in the furor over mexico's role in illegal immigration and the influx of opioids --

is heroin an opioid, admiral? >> yes, sir. >> when people can't get prescription drugs for some reason, do they frequently -- do addicts frequently resort to heroin? >> yes, sir. >> because it's cheaper, right? >> yes, sir. >> more readily available. >> yes, sir. >> but the addiction that it produces is just as bad, maybe worse, than from prescription drugs. would you agree with that? >> the addiction is the addiction. the consequences of heroin and fentanyl are much more severe because of their potency, yes, sir. >> and are you aware that one of the major sources of heroin into the united states is across our southwestern border? >> it is, sir. that's for sure. >> and along with tons of heroin come tons of methamphetamine, tons of cocaine, but i know we're talking primarily about opioids. i heard it described to me recently by the head of southern command, the combatant commander in charge of that region of the world. he said the criminal organizations that traffic in drugs, poison, if you will, into the united s

but for now he still buys heroin.ng and doing some busking and trying to make some money, and my day starts... dave stays away from the new dealers, but he is aware that other users‘ addictions mean they will be buying from them and often. your whole day would be spending a bit of time to get 30 or £40 to go and score. £10 for heroin and £10 for the crack cocaine. the buzz doesn't hold you that long, because the quality is not that good. in a couple of hours you would have to score again, so you would need to find more money again. relatively small in number, persistent users of crack and heroin are constantly in need of resupply. it makes them the perfect target for county line drug dealers. and it is all controlled by a mobile phone. just like a legitimate business, dealers encourage users to buy. they are bombarded by texts of special deals and fire sales. aggressive marketing pays off. each mobile number make up a £3000 a day. but those profits attract competition from new drug dealers. and with it has come violen

then her brother died of a heroin overdose. i share this story because i believe that jessica's story then her brother died speaks to the financial stress that working class americans recovering from addiction feel every day. now in recovery, jessica works 10 hours of a night shift at the burger king. given the hours she works, jessica falls in the state's medicaid gap. she doesn't qualify to receive medicaid. have health insurance. jessica has been clean for over a year, but, mr. speaker, because she doesn't have health insurance, this makes her addiction problem and fighting it much harder. the bills that we're considering this week -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. sewell: it is no silver bullet but i believe we as a body can address this horrible epidemic. i'm glad we're finally seeing that addiction is a criminalization -- is not a criminalization but a public health crisis and seeking to solve it. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the recognizes the gentlewoman from florida,

st this past january, amanda bought some heroin and what she didn't know was that was not heroin. it's now been determined not only was it -- normally they cut fentanyl into heroin. this had no heroin, it was all fentanyl. let me explain why that is so deadly. it is so potent that if you took a saltshaker and sprinkled three or four or half a dozen grains of salt on this podium and touched them, you would likely have that fentanyl go through your skin and fall on the floor here in this chamber. unless one of our folks here in the chamber or one of the edics nearby had narcan, naloxone to resuscitate you, you would difmente that's what happened to amanneda. she took what she thought was heroin and died from 100% fentanyl. that same night, her father recalls news reports saying additional people in their city died. it's a fatal but common trend with illicit fentanyl. mr. marino: i yield another minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. walden: this illegal fentanyl that comes into our country from foreign countries, generally through our mail facilities, has been one of th

your neighbor could be using heroin or so could their high honors high school student. it is the public health crisis of this generation. as a senior member of the house education and work force committee, i want to highlight some of the work that we have done to help combat this pandemic. the committee has collaboratively worked in a bipartisan manner to introduce support the following bills. h.r. 5889, which requires health and human service it is provide resources to early childhood support the care and providers, as well as professionals working with young children, on ways to properly recognize and respond to children impacted by trauma related to substance abuse. h.r. 5890 which calls on h.h.s. to re-evaluate plans under the child abuse prevention and treatment act to ensure the safe care of infants affected by prenatal substance abuse. h.r. 5891 establishes interagency task force to effectively and officially assist families who have been impacted by substance abuse disorders. h.r. 5892 establishes an advisory committee on opioids and the work force to advise the

it's 25 to 50 times more powerful than heroin. so, these folks were buying what they thought was a legitimate hydrocodone pill on the black market, yet they were buying a pill that contained fentanyl. >> and it killed them. >> and we had 15 people die of overdoses. >> w. well, lieutenant simmons, you have the unique perspective from being a pharmacy technician turned police officer. now you're training other officers and district attorneys how to recognize the dangers from prescription-drug abuse. can you give us -- what did you see before and now? >> so, working in the pharmacy as a pharmacy technician, in the profession, you saw a lot of individuals who were most likely addicted to the opiate-based drugs, who were doctor-shopping or pharmacy-shopping or altering prescriptions and trying to find other illicit ways to get their hands on more of the opiate drug or amphetamine drug that they were addicted to. and now in law enforcement, you see those people out on the street, whether they just purchased something illicitly or whethe

so this is the neighborhood they put a recovering heroin addict i here are some heroin baggies that litter the streets here. this is one of manheroin locations in this end of tow and it's not that i'mut tempted, it would make it a lot easier for me to violate my parole and get this wholthing over with. because right now, going bk to jail and finishing my time seemt a lot easihan the o prosf jumping through hoops for peoplehat don't want me to be happy. >> putting him in the halfway g house, he oing to always see as punitive. not, or thought it wasiveppy or or not. it's an opportunity. structure, supervision, money management, assistance for whatever,ow you they need is kind of all right there. having that structure andrv suion right in his... kind of in his face every day.on so... some guys reto it. they're never gonna admit it but some respond to it, so at least it's not jail.ee >> narrator: seven into his stay, another parolee overdoses on heroin inside the halfway house. >> i just got home from work, and parole is here, and this ish at i come home to.ve because of therdose and the deh h

maybe they don't use heroine. maybe they have a problem with alcohol? maybe they have a problem with mental health disorder. seeing that hope where someone is hopeful. the most positive, most effective thing i've seen in this program is one person telling another, hey, i got this medicine from the street medicine team. i saw dr. evan, i saw one of their nurses. that person saying well, i can't believe it. you were the least likely to succeed guy. you were the worst-off person. you are the person with the worst addiction i know and now you are telling me you are not using? that's tremendous in building hope and that's what we need to do as we address the problems that we see. so i'm going to introduce chris, one of our initial low barrier buprenorp hine patients. someone who will tell you about his experience. so thank you. [applause] >> good morning. my name is christopher rafino and to piggy back on what dr. svens said, one rainy morning, as i got out of jail, and i contacted dr. sven, via the mail and telephone and to other people, i did not want to u

is an emotional topic for me because i lost my son 10 years ago to a heroin overdose. he was a great kid. sorry. i think that you should tell people that the ability to turn around, toddicts stash the success rate is only 2%-5%. it is minimal. probably -- it was probably genetic. there is nothing you can do. i felt many times he was on the streets, it would have in better had he spent many times in jail. that put him in touch with other trouble, andore make connections for stealing and stuff like that. campld like to see a work are occupieddicts and permanently committed to were either they put them on a work farm and growth that's to balls and it has some meaning .nd life doctors have told me that a lot due to themess is being high polar. i support the representative from washington's legislation. i think we need to crack down on chinese fentanyl, on the other hand i have two friends that are anesthesiologist that's a fentanyl is critical in the operating room. replacement.knee had they not used fentanyl in the operating room i would have been in recovery and it would

>>> the call girl who gave a google executive a deadly dose of heroin. she tells her story, next. wildfire... rages >>> the race to contain it is on. is northern california fire rages out of control while thousands are forced to evacuate. good evening. >> the latest numbers, the pun he fire as mo 10,000 acres. 22 structures have been destroyed with 600 more at risk. katy nelson is live in spring valley were firefighters are racing to save homes tonight. >> reporter: the fire has laid down for the night. that is a term they have used to calm fire conditions. the wind is still, temperatures dropping, humidity coming up, that is good news for firefighters. we are at the end of trump mountain road. earlier we introduced you to the man who lives down here. we were actually able to come with him as he made his emotional return back home after the fire made a run up this canyon this afternoon. sometimes words alone are not enough to say thank you. >> this right here is everything -- my whole life i put into this house. >> reporter: these firefighters braved 100 foot tall flames that race

report the hundreds of deaths caused by prescription of medicinal heroin what about medicinal cannabis we speak to parents who are legally and illegally giving their children what the prime minister selectively licensed told us more coming up in today's going underground but first to more of the third in line to the british throne prince william without his wife kate will visit israel and the occupied territories it'll be the first official royal visit to the illegally occupied land since their existence was catalyzed by the balfour declaration in london one hundred one years ago but will be meeting with notorious israeli military forces north according to israel's twenty four news tons of military involvement which the other favorite thing of the royal family obviously be steering clear of the israeli military in order to try to keep things unconventional that was very clear from what they showed told us yesterday and while the killing continues in the context of israel's violation of u.n. security council resolutions israel is itself already outraged jerusalem affairs ministers a vei

because it was the neighborhood that i bought heroin in. so this is the neighborhood they put a recovering heroin addict in. here are some heroin baggies that litter the streets here. this is one of many heroin locations in this end of town. and it's not that i'm tempted, but it would ma it a lot easier for me to p violate arole and get this whole thing over wit because right now, going back to jail and finishing my time seems prospect of jumping thh hoops for people that don't want me to be happy. >> putting him in the halfway suse, he is going to alwaee as punitive. i don't care if he was happy or not, or thought it was punitive or not. it's aopportunity. structure, supervision, money management, you know, they needever, is kind of all right there. having that structure andis supervision right in. kind of in his face every day. so... someuys respond to it. they're never gonna admit it but some respond to it, so at least it's not jail. >> narrator: seven weeks into his stay, another parolee overdoses on heroin inside the halfway house. >>

she's 26, homeless, and hooked on heroin. how long have you been using drugs? tiffany: about four and a half years. it doesn't seem like that, it seems like forever. bigad: do you worry this will kill you? tiffany: when i started doing heroin, i think that that's what i was hoping it would do. i just want to go back to the person that i was. bigad: tiffany is one of more than 22,000 drug users who regularly shoot up in san francisco. a recent investigation exposed the amount of used needles scattered throughout downtown. san francisco workers collect more than 287,000 needles each month, but the city hands out about 400,000 new syringes at a cost of half a million dollars per year in hopes of preventing the spread of disease. alex kral: the solutions that we currently have clearly haven't helped. bigad: dr. alex kral is an infectious disease specialist. he's also part of a san francisco task force that recommends opening what are called supervised injection sites, where addicts bring their own drugs and shoot up under the care of medical staff. alex: even just

and often what leads them to go from pills to injection of fentanyl or heroin is that it's easier to get.

he was taking valium. >> reporter: authorities say after she shot him up with the heroin, surveillance video captures her leaving without calling 911. she casually stepped over his body, finishes wine and lowers a blind. >> that is not the case at all. i was in a complete panic. i was on valium, i injected myself first and it looked like he was still breathing. it looked like he passed out. mac she says she regrets not calling 911. >> i wish i could go back and change what happened. i can't and that is something i have to live with and something that his family has to live with. >> reporter: she says she is clean and sober today and works a normal job. >> a georgia district attorney announced that she was indicted for a second man stabbed, the heroin overdose of her ex- boyfriend. he also died in 2013. >>> san francisco's plan to equip police with taser stun guns is on hold. supervisors voted to take funding for the devices out of the city budget for the time being. we are at city hall tonight. >> reporter: the debate about whether to arm san francisco police officers with tasers seem

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in 2016, more than 15,000 americans died from her a heroin overdose, more than 90% of the heroine comes from across the southern border. 90%. as a result of city policies and fiscal, 2017, more than 8000 criminal aliens, he's a really ha rd than 8000 criminal aliens, he's a really hard criminal aliens, where in police custody and were released because of our weak laws, weakest in the world, we kissed in the history of the world. they were released back into our civilian population and these gentlemen had to do some of the releasing and i do not think you are too happy when you knew. they note better than anyone, you knew what you were releasing, you knew what you were releasing, you knew it was trouble and it often comes back to be trouble. where is the media outrage over the catch and release policies that allow deadly drugs to pour into our country? where is the condemnation of the democrats and cities that release violent criminals into our communities and protect them? like the mayor of san diego when she warned everybody that i've is coming and they scattered. a big operation, and

heroin legal and medicinal cannabis illegal deputy editor sebastian packer where just speak to parents that are legally and illegally supplying their children with cannabis oil this film contains elements that some viewers may find distressing this is a little boy of twelve years of age that is getting senior control and a better quality of life from a little bottle of oil as all of those i'm not given up. smoking and it's not it's a little bottle of medicine. that's keeping him alive. well used to suffer from up to one hundred life threatening seizures per day that was until he became the first ever person in the u.k. to be prescribed the dismantle cannabis early this year and without warning or explanation his description was. just twelve hours after his medicine run out his mother said billy suffered his first seizure in nearly two years. a seizure that could have killed. a few days later billy was admitted to hospital what happened next could change british law forever it's not satisfactory for the parents it's not satisfactory for the doctors and it's not satisfactory for me i've

if we legalize heroin, won't people still flee to the u.s.?ory as bill was expresing is that you're undermining the illegal drug trade in trade in central america and it would cause people to stay in their native country. time to see how you responded. if the drug trade is to blame for the migration crisis drugs be decriminalized? thanks for that. wow. 59% say yes. that's really interesting. but he would be thrilled with that, wouldn't he? 59% say yes. if this is what's driving it then decriminalization is something that we should be considering. maybe that says something about our audience. i don't know. here's what else you've been thinking during the course of the program. what do we have? hard drugs should never be legal. does anyone want them to be as common as cigarettes or beer? i think legalization would usher in an era of unpres decedent ee addiction. jeffrey, may i recommend a good piece? i'll tweet it out from the guardian on what's going on in portugal because catholic conservative portugal overwhelmed by an opioid and heroin epide

him so relatable. >> tony always owned his strug us and one of them was drugs and heroin.t was a 1980s thing for him and he worked through. >> i know what the life of somebody who wakes up in the morning and the first odd of business is get heroin. having been through it myself, going to a meeting, addicts. you know, they said something to say to me and i had something to say to them. >> there was a vulnerability to him as cool as he was, that he would expose. >> i'll tell you something really shameful. the first time i shout out i looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. you know, something was missing in me, whether it was a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw. that stable family in the suburbs, i had a lot of advantages. there was some dark jennie inside me that led me to dope, i didn't have anyone else who could have talked me out of what i was doing. intervention wouldn't have worked. i didn't have a child. i have a 7-year-old daughter now, who i never would have had, i never would have thought. i looked in the mirror, i saw somebody worth sav

they became addicted to prescription painkillers from injuries and then later heroin. they are alive. they are clean now. but it was a long road there, and michelle still worries because you all know, sobriety, it's very fragile. they don't fully recover. it takes a long time. one thing that strikes me about how she describes dealing with her son's addiction, it's the pervasive loneliness. she says she felt like no one dealing with her same struggle. she felt disconnected from her nds. she felt disconnected from her pants, her faith. it goes to show this can be such an isolating battle, not as one struggling with drug use, but those trying to figure out how they can be there for their loved ones. michelle has made it her mission to help families like hers struggle. it's her mission to help families like hers get through the wilderness of addiction and to the road of recovery. she's been an advocate for more resources to treat addiction. congress has heard that call too. we have taken action to tackle this opioid epidemic. this will stem the flow of opioids in our count

somebody who wakes up in the morning and the first order of business is to get heroin, uh, i know whathat's like. >> she spent much of his life on the road. he told kevin he traveled 200 days a year in 2014. >> how do you you maintain a life at all traveling soer home? >> i have family. a young daughter. try to spend as much time as i can with them. we vacation together. >> bourdain's celebrity friends are paying respects. gordon ramsay wrote, bourdain inspire sod many people to explore through food. >> fellow travelers this swat you want. >> christiane amanpour, a long-time friend and collaborator called him a huge personality. a giant talent. a unique voice. and deeply, deeply human. >> work in the kich season work. this is fun. this is a privilege. i have a restless mind, let's put it that way. a rest less temperament. i'm still curious about the world. we ask simple questions. what makes you happy? what do you eat? what do you like to cook? everywhere in the world we go and ask the simple question, we get astonishing answers. >>> george and amal clooney have been celebrating a lot

should add though bart i should add that bear themselves were the ones who brought us drug called heroin they were the ones who brought us another kind of drug called klon b. which is information world war two so bear itself has weathered a fair bit of headline risk in its own past which perhaps will give them confidence in the future i didn't know that about heroin i was just think aspart and i think that's a pretty respected thing so steve how does a how does a company that in some people's minds you don't know that it is the heroin story how does a company that has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the years deal with this is an image and what do they need to do going forward. well i think a couple of things that they're doing the scientific the big scientific guy on set there has been there for thirty five years through much of what has been discussed is leaving the c.e.o. of the company who's been there thirty five years is leaving so those are two steps although some current management does remain that will they will admit that also you know the current management of bear

or it's people who want to meet a girl dressed up as a man to heroin like me. but not every fantasy is catered to sexual contact is off limits. and. before entering the room. because tumors informed of the rules so incidents are very rare. at the end of the session in a way is finally allowed a few seconds of embrace. something you prefer to stay seated for the hard right. so come on. thank you. thank you very much i'm happy to have met you need to figure out a great time thank you so much. thank you see you soon to help. in a way it's inexperience with women isn't just you to shyness he tends to prefer video game heroines to women of flesh and blood. at all. with real girls i don't know what their thinking. is you know they could lie to me while smiling sweetly or not at all the same with their friends behind my back they could criticize me. whereas girls in video games would never betray me because the men who create the games have been invented their ideal women. when he's not working in a coal center in a way lives in a fifteen square meter apartment where

that's what's getting cut into heroin -- by wait you can always trust your local heroin dealer to get the right mixture. they're good chemists, i'm sure. no, not. that's what we're trying to stop with this legislation is this illegal fentanyl coming in through the mail system from foreign countries, mainly china. and stop it from get nag they c it's that potent, our country. that's why -- from getting into our country. that's why i commend mrs. blackburn, mr. green, and everybody involved in this legislation. mr. speaker, i also take the floor because over the course of this week and next week, we will deal with more than 57 different opioid related bills. we have heard from republicans and democrats. this is a epidemic that doesn't check your party registration before it sickens or kills or addicts somebody in your family or community. throughout all this, we have had terrific support. not only from our members, but also from our staff an own both sides of the aisle, but there is today on o single out our side of the aisle, who, unfortunately, has decided to pursue other endeavors. p

he was watching heroin movies -- >> seth: yeah. >> abo heroin. he'd be like, "should we -- do you want to go get some coffee?" and i would just be like, "no." [ laughter ] >> seth: now, you guys -- you've been together for a while now. >> yes six and a half years, about. >> seth: but, when you first -- your first year together, you threw him a surprise party. >> yeah. >> seth: very early on. >> very, too, early on >> seth: too early on for a surprise party.ha >> wknown each other for three or four months, and then, it was his birthday. and i wanted to do something special for him. i just think i was j smitten immediately. and, y know. but we still didn't know a ton about each other. so i did not know that he hates surprises. [ laughter ] or attention of any kind. >> seth: okay, interesting. [ light laughter ] >> and i also didn't really know that many of his friends yet. j sot asked, like, the two friends i knew, "who should i vote invite to this party?" and mentally, i think i was planning at like, in my mind, like, a 20-person dinner party. >>

the heroin in the u.s.. >> the typical way the opium poppy is abused is the pod itself is used in the making of tea and this tea can be very dangerous and individuals can overdose. >> reporter: the drug enforcement administration says this is the first time the flower has been found in the area since 2003. the opium flowers were grown in a region where there are many legitimate flower growing and wholesale businesses. >> i just think the guys are innocent myself. >> reporter: one grow site wasn't far from a shipper. they say those growers were farmers trying to settle poppy flowers as fresh cut flowers, not for drugs. >> i think they are not doing anything illegal. they are innocent, just growers trying to growing flowers to make a living. >> reporter: about 160,000 opium poppy plants were destroyed. the monterey county sheriff's department says it's working closely with the district attorney's office which plans to prosecute those responsible. in monterey county, maureen naylor, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> homele

we don't have a heroin problem in new hampshire. fentanyl problem. >> new hampshire leads the nation in fatalities from fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that's nearly 50 times more powerful than ro >> what we're dealing with is something that i never thought i would see in the fire service, but we're here and we're doing our best to combat it. >> the family are in the fight as well, their daughter jackie may be gone, but they believe her legacy can save lives. >> how are we going to stop this? you have start by talking about it. you have to let people know what's going on. you have to let people know that it is middle class america that's part of this problem. jon: rick leventhal reporting there f thank you. >>> the wages of tipped workers in washington, d.c. are in the hands of voters on tuesday. a ballot measured called initiative 77 aims to get rid of the current minimum wage for tipped workers which is a little more than $3 an hour. that wage would gradually increase to the same rate as nontipped employees, but some of washington's

. >>> new at 11:00, the call girl killer who injected a google executive with heroin and watched him die is speaking out. she said that she had no idea that forrest timothy hayes had died after they did heroin on the yacht together, and when she found out, it was one of the worst moments of her life. instead of coldly sipping wine while he was unconscious, she was panicked and agonized over looking to call 911. >> he had passed out and i know at and not woken up for 24 hours later and so i figured it is something in jail after pleading giuilty to involuntary manslaughter and prosti distribution drug drugs. she was deported to canada and she is saying that she is leading a clean and sober life and thinks about hayes everyday. >>> and in saudi arabia, women are getting behind the wheel and driving for the first time in the country's history. they demanded the right to drive for the last three decades, and now, they announced that last year that the ban would come to an end. in the past, saudi women had to rely on the men in their families to drive them. they took them from one place to

he didn't hide he had the terrible problems with alcohol, heroin.nd yet that's what made him so relatable. >> tony always owned his vugles one of testimony was drugs and heroin. which was largely a 1980s thing for him and he worked through. >> i know what the life of a -- somebody who wakes up in the morning and the first order of business is get heroin, having been through it myself, you know going to a meeting of addicts, you know, i -- they had something to say to me and i had something to say to them. >> there was a vulnerability as cool as he was there is a vulnerability that he would expose. >> i'll tell you something really shameful about myself. the first time i shot up i looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. you know, something was missing in me whether a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw, i came up in a stable family, the suburbs. i had a lot of advantages. there was some dark genie inside me that i hesitate to call a disease that led me to dope. i didn't have anyone else who talked me out of what i was doing.

if we legalize heroin, won't people still flee to the u.s.?mining the illegal drug trade in central america and, therefore, the stability that would result would cause people to stay in their native country. it's time to see how you responded to the survey question at smerconish.com. if the drug trade is partly to blame for the migration crisis, should drugs be legalized? 8,000 votes cast. thanks for that. wow, 59% say yes. now that's really interesting. lamar would be thrilled with that, wouldn't he? 59% say yes, if this is what's driving it, then decriminalization is something we should be considering. maybe that says something about our audience. i don't know. here is what else you've been saying throughout the course of the program. hard drugs should never be legal. does anyone want them as common as cigarettes and beer? i think it would usher in an unprecedented era of addiction. can i recommend a piece from "the dpardian" on what's go iin on in portugal because catholic conservative portugal did exactly this. treatment is a big part of w

he didn't hide that he had these terrible problems with alcoh and heroin and yet, that's what made himny always owned his struggles and one was drugs and heroin which was something that largely was a 1980s thing for him and he worked through. >> i know what the life of a -- somebody who wakes up in the morning and their first order of business is get heroin and having been through it myself, going to a meeting of addicts. they had something to say to me, and i had something to say to them. >> there was a vulnerability to him and as cool as he was there was a vulnerability to him that he would -- he would expose. >> i'll tell you something really shameful about myself. the first time i shot up i looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. >> something was missing in me, whether it was a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw. i had a stable family in the suburbs and i had a lot of advantages and there was a dark genie inside me that i hesitate to call a disease that led me to dope. i didn't have anyone else who could have talked me out of what i was doing, but interve

having these medications have changed my attitude towards seeing heroine users. earlier in my career, not that i didn't like heroine users, but i never felt like i had something to offer. now they're my favorite patient. i have something that can immediately change your recollection with the drugs you use and change what your circumstances are. many people who we see have heard about it and they haven't had the opportunity to talk to medical providers who have expertise and get prescriptions. the basic idea is bring it to people where they are, get people stabilized, and then they're able to move into those next steps because when you are strung out on heroine, when you need to use or else have awful withdrawals, every four to six hours, it's really hard to do anything. what we need to do is provide something that is at least as compelling to people as what is happening to them onhe