anthony: i left provincetown with restaurant experience, a suntan, and an ever-deepening relationship with recreational drugs. i went to culinary school, then to new york city, and never returned. today, however, i m staying in massachusetts, heading over to the western part of the state. one of the most beautiful areas of the country. the gorgeous mill towns, victorian houses. deeply felt famously upright new england values, norman rockwell america where something really inexplicable and unexpected has happened. reporter: new england is a new mecca for heroin use reporter: emergency room admissions law enforcement areas dealing with crimes being committed that never happened before. reporter: detectives are working around the clock. dealers are making a killing anthony: not new york or baltimore or l.a. or chicago, but rural towns like this one are now statistically ground zero for the heroin epidemic. what the hell happened?
actually took care of you. they built and provided homes for their employees. schools. the river provided energy. the company provided nearly everything else. ed: the heyday is gone. people are definitely struggling to find work. the down just kind of died during the 80s. when the folks came to work, they were immigrants anthony: attracted by the manufacturing here. ed: correct. made it a possibility of owning a home in a real decent part of the county here. ed: so my father was here, a millwright, a millwright s job is a jack of all trades if you will. if there was something that needed to be repaired. anthony: you could work in a mill and live in a nice home, send your kids to school, make a living all on a mill salary. ed: you bet. anthony: it s unthinkable now almost. what happened to the business? ed: things are going to other countries, but not coming back to the united states.
significant ways. back then, heroin was mostly seen as a poor people problem, somebody else s problem. the 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 users of hard-core
anthony: high hundreds. detective 1: it s hitting every age group, economic household. it s out there. anthony: so we don t have crips and bloods taking over motel rooms, the person selling you dope more likely to be familiar than a stranger? detective 1: we re going to meet a pass distributor i ve known for several years. anthony: we meet carmen, as we ll call her, a powerful local heroin dealer turned paid confidential police informant out in the woods. anthony: how d you get into the business initially? carmen: i needed the money. i needed to support my family. couldn t get a job. anthony: how easy was it to get into the dope business? carmen: not hard at all because it s cheap. anthony: was there money in it? carmen: oh, hell, yeah. yeah, oh, yeah. anthony: it s like mayberry out here from looking around. who s using heroin now? i mean carmen: kids. anthony: kids. carmen: kids. anthony: today s heroin epidemic is different than the one that raged t
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