Scholarships. but she says she started to rebel and chose to stay close to home. by the time i got to college, i was just, like, i want to hang out and have fun with my friends. it felt like a swrob almost at the time. you know, the enjoyment was gone. the fun in it was gone. it was so serious, you know, because at that point, it s all about paying for your school. after a shoulder injury and with her scholarship on the line, dana started self-medicating to play through the pain. my body started to hurt. my knees were hurting. my back was hurting. i d be in so much pain, i started taking ib prouprofen ale time and stat escalated into vicodin and stuff like that. after a year of prescription drug and alcohol abuse, dana entered rehab and met an addict that was introduced her to heroin. i tried heroin one time. that was it.
Here. inside her car, police find what they say is $300 worth of heroin and three syringes. that s why i m doing this because i m addicted to it, and you know how long have you been out here? involved in prostitution? almost a year. that s what you re feeding the addiction she has been 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, i haven t it grows
Anything negative when i did it, was just gone. these are kids that grow up in grace households, stable households. dana s story is not shocking to scott macy who says he counsels many high achieving young men and women who have sold themselves for drugs. addiction is a physical and a mental, you know. and it s what we consider a brain decide. 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
Out of control. with a $300 a day habit, it s a battle. especially heroin. i mean, it just changes your brain and how you think. when you don t have it you feel like you re dieing. your body tricks itself. it s like you have to had it or you will not load anywhere, like you re loading. unusually articulate, educated, and self aware, officers are surprised to learn her downward spiral from honor student, to addict, to prostitute happened from a sports injury. i had a bad rotator cuff. dana says she graduated to heroin when her health insurance ran out and she could no longer afford prescription drugs.
Your body goes through withdrawals. 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 may i have some heroin? once i saw how much money from the drugs i made, it hushed any concern or any negative feelings i had towards it 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 of the parties going on? yeah, they have them all over. the night she was arrested, dana told investigators about a underground network where men buy women out fear of police detection. i met a man from craigslist that knew about this underground