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Opioid from an emergency physician for an ankle sprain. >> he is now part of a pilot program launched by the colorado hospital association in eight hospitals and a few free standing ers with one formidable goal. >> it helps produce reduce the heroin issue on the street while still treating pain. >> duncan part of a team that teaches nurses and physicians on six month test run. nearly 80% of heroin users started with prescription opioids. guidelines in this program include encouraging prescriptions to write fewer opioid prescriptions. treating pain without narcotics and getting addicted patient...

Opioid from an emergency physician for an ankle sprain. >> he is now part of a pilot program launched by the colorado hospital association in eight hospitals and a few free standing ers with one formidable goal. >> it helps produce reduce the heroin issue on the street while still treating pain. >> duncan part of a team that teaches nurses and physicians on six month test run. nearly 80% of heroin users started with prescription opioids. guidelines in this program include encouraging prescriptions to write fewer opioid prescriptions. treating pain without narcotics and getting addicted patient...

It is the kind of thing that is happening a lot as we learn about america's heroin ed a dadn which claims more lives than violent crime or car crashes. from 2007 to 2012 heroin use in the united states doubled. and the knoxville, police chief, said that heroin overdoses outnumbered homicides 23-13. this is attorney general eric holder on what he calls a public crisis. >> standing by itself, the heroin problem is one that is worthy of all of our attention. it is a national issue. it is not regional or state, and not a section of the country, and this is a problem national in scope. >> and if yo...

>> sean: we continue with more of my interview with former new mexico governor gary johnson. how do you reconcile the prostitution issue, the heroin issue, the pot issue, with social conservatives like myself? >> first of all prostitution has never been an issue for me i've never -- >> sean: you talked about it in an interview that's where i it from. >> so again. freedom, liberty, the personal responsibility that goes along with that i find it funny, if you will, that you republicans would talk about the fact that this country stands for freedom, for liberty, and it is about the personal respo...

>> sean: we continue with more of my interview with former new mexico governor gary johnson. how do you reconcile the prostitution issue, the heroin issue, the pot issue, with social conservatives like myself? >> first of all prostitution has never been an issue for me i've never -- >> sean: you talked about it in an interview that's where i it from. >> so again. freedom, liberty, the personal responsibility that goes along with that i find it funny, if you will, that you republicans would talk about the fact that this country stands for freedom, for liberty, and it is about the personal respo...