de dealers behind the bars, but more than 5.5 pounds were taken off of the streets along with $250,000 in cash. nbc's kate snow has been covering the crisis for nbc news extensively, and start with how did we get here? >> how did we get here. the big answers is prescription painkiller and almost everybody to a person we talked to who is a user or former user of heroin said they started on percocet or vicodin or some prescription painkiller whether it was gotten legally or under the table. >> yes, many of them get it for legally. >> many of them were prescribed for back pain or painkillers, or given at parties. then they start to get it expensi expensively $65 for a pill, and her swin $65 for a baggy. many people said they started to snort the heroin and then went