de dealers behind the bars, but more than 5.5 pounds were taken off of the streets along with $250,000 in cash. nbc s kate snow has been covering the crisis for nbc news extensively, and start with how did we get here? how did we get here. the big answers is prescription painkiller and almost everybody to a person we talked to who is a user or former user of heroin said they started on percocet or vicodin or some prescription painkiller whether it was gotten legally or under the table. yes, many of them get it for legally. many of them were prescribed for back pain or painkillers, or given at parties. then they start to get it expensi expensively $65 for a pill, and her swin $65 for a baggy. many people said they started to snort the heroin and then went