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 out of control. with a $300 a day habit, it s
so even if the pimp is nowhere near them, the physical need for the drug overwhelms any urge to leave or to report that pimp, to go home, any of that. because they have this physical addiction, and it s not like they can go up to a cvs and say please may i have some heroin? once i saw, you know, how much money, the drugs i had made from it, it was, that hushed any concern or any negative feelings i had toward it, you know, because there was no other way that i could get that amount of drugs for, you know, doing anything else. you are aware of all the parties that are going on? yeah. they have them all over. the night she was arrested, dana told investigators about an underground network where men buy women without fear of police detection. i ended up meeting a man from craigslist who knew about kind of like this underground almost, like, society, if you will, of
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 quickly escalated to a $300
ride. count the money. good deal, good deal. the woman selling herself is a 20-something college student we ll call dana. upon arrest, she tries in vain to thwart investigators from looking inside her car by hiding her keys in her pants. where are those keys? you didn t throw them. you have them crotched or something? do you have the keys on you hidden? no. she s saying they re right up here. i didn t see her throw them. through the conversation with her, she concealed the keys from us and concealed her phone which made us believe there s something in the vehicle she doesn t want us to see. what are your concerns, talk to me. i m doing this because i have a drug problem. so you have drugs in the car, no big deal. okay? did you find the heroin? yep. looks like she has a bunch of heroin in here. that s probably heroin right here. inside dana s car, police find what they say is $300 worth
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