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 for it. you know, my habit, it grew so
there is nothing more shocking than understanding that this young woman, who we will call dana, was a highly recruited college athlete just a few short years ago. at dana s request, we refrain from mentioning specifics. i had scholarship offers from i mean, i can t even count how many universities. i mean, i could have basically played sports anywhere that i wanted to. that s why i m doing this. i have a drug problem. okay. we met dana at what she now admit was the lowest part of her life. strung out on heroin and selling her body for cash. find the heroin? yep. dana was arrested in a federal sting aimed at rescuing trafficked girls. she was not a typical case. she was an independent. she had not worked for a pimp. she had a little bit of heroin with us. she was reluctant to assist us at first because she was scared. between tears and lock up, she admitted to being addicted to heroin after a devastating sports injury. she told our cameras this was
not the life she had planned. you know, i was just a really happy-go-lucky kid, you know, outgoing, had a lot of friends. you know, played a lot of sports. was really active. raised in rural michigan, dana personify zed the all-american girl. studious and athletic, dana wasn t just good. she was exceptional. i was always a bright child. very athletic. anything i picked up i excelled at very quickly. looking back now, dana says the punishing physical grind and pressure to succeed as a star athlete led her to abuse alcohol. you train rigorously. you re playing sports seven days, six days a week, you know, and that s hours-long practices, you know, and tournaments and, you know, just different training sessions. you know, weight lifting, you know, running, everything. and it s just, it consumes your life. big 10 schools and duke came calling offering dana full
shocking than understanding that this young woman, who we will call dana, was a highly recruited college athlete just a few short years ago. at dana s request, we refrain from mentioning specifics. i had scholarship offers from i mean, i can t even count how many universities. i mean, i could have basically played sports anywhere that i wanted to. that s why i m doing this. i have a drug problem. okay. we met dana at what she now admit was the lowest part of her life. strung out on heroin and selling her body for cash. find the heroin? yep. dana was arrested in a federal sting aimed at rescuing trafficked girls. she was not a typical case. she was an independent. she had not worked for a pimp. she had a little bit of heroin with us. she was reluctant to assist us at first because she was scared. between tears and lock up, she admitted to being addicted to heroin after a devastating sports injury. she told our cameras this was not the life she had planned.
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