crystal has not been legally punished for her role in jasmine s death, girls like crystal cannot escape the day-to-day sentence that often comes with life in the underground sex trade. they don t know where to go. they don t know who to turn to. they don t know who to trust. they ve been beaten down so long. to make them feel like they re nonexistent. so we re just looking for someway, somehow for somebody to help them, and can t always do that unless they want to help themselves. and that s where we get stuck. not a lot of them want to go that extra mile or get away with from their comfort zone. now they ve lived that life so long, that s their comfort zone. that s no place to go. you run into that quite a bit. did you find the heroin? up next, addiction can touch anyone. even the all-american girl next door. i thought i could just do it once and stop. i didn t know that i would do it
it s okay, just be honest. you re okay, sweetheart. i don t want to get you in trouble. am i going to get you in trouble? how bad is it? not heroin or anything, but i left my family and dropped out of college and nursing school six months ago, so you were in nursing school? how powerful is that addiction? very. and then did you have children? yeah, four. where are they now? they re grown. they live down south. i never used drugs when i was pregnant. at 41, this mother of four says she s been out on the streets for about a year and admits her addiction to crack leaves her powerless to change. i would do it, but i just can t hardly i don t want to go to jail. i don t want to be redundant, but i just can t seem to get over the hump.
any hurt in my life, anything negative when i did it, it was just gone. these are kids that grow up in great households. stable households. dana s story isn t shocking to scott macy who says he counsels many high-achieving young women and men who have sold themselves for drugs. heroin addiction or opiate addiction is a physical as well as a mental. you know. it s what we consider a brain disease. a former addict, scott macy knows firsthand the devastating impact of what is known as chasing the dragon. like dana, he lived a double life going back and forth from his white-collar job to detroit s east side to feed his addiction. addiction just takes over any type of thought process. any type of, you know, just takes over their life. and you know, it s just an obsession of the mind. dana says her $20 a day fix
says she has a bunch of heroin in there. that s probably heroin right here. inside dana s car, police find what they say is $300 worth of heroin and three syringes. it s just enough of a fix to get the young woman through the night. take the photo real quick, and we ll go from there. what s going on with you that you re getting so addicted to it? that s our main concern. you don t appear to be the girl that needs to be on that stuff. i know. that s why i m doing this because i m addicted to it and, you know how long have you been out here? what do you mean? involved in prostitution? almost a year. since last january. that s where you re feeding the addiction? she s been involved in prostitution for about a year. she has an addiction problem with heroin, and she feeds that addiction through prostitution. back at the state police post, dana confesses she s been fighting heroin addiction for over two years. so what got you started in prostitution? just paying f
these are kids that grow up in great households. stable households. dana s story isn t shocking to scott macy who says he counsels many high-achieving young women and men who have sold themselves for drugs. heroin addiction or opiate addiction is a physical as well as a mental. you know. it s what we consider a brain disease. a former addict, scott macy knows firsthand the devastating impact of what is known as chasing the dragon. like dana, he lived a double life going back and forth from his white-collar job to detroit s east side to feed his addiction. addiction just takes over any type of thought process. any type of, you know, just takes over their life. and you know, it s just an obsession of the mind. dana says her $20 a day fix quickly escalated to a $300 a day habit. transforming her into a