oh my god. >> where is your clothes at? stay in the seat until i get your clothes. >> they go hand and glove. sex for sale and drug addiction. >> we arrest hundreds and hundreds of girls involved in prostitution. only a handful are not involved with a narcotic. >> all across america, more and more women are turning to drugs like crack and heroin to kill the pain that comes with being bought and sold. msnbc goes under cover with michigan's human trafficking task force for a sobering look at the overwhelming power of drug addiction in the business of sex for sale.

>> i thought that i could just do it once and stop. >> it's a growing epidemic that can touch anyone, even the all american girl next door. >> this is going to sound crazy, but it's not that hard to go from using drugs from point a to point b of selling yourself. think about it, how are you going to get that much money daily when your addiction is out of control and you're using so much of it? how are you going to get that money every day? ♪ >> it's a saturday night in detroit, and the city is jumping. the local economy is finally on the rebound, and people are out on the streets again looking to celebrate and have a good time. to some, that means buying a woman for sex. >> hey, it's sanchez. >> state trooper richard sanchez

is part of the michigan human trafficking task force. >> they say my girl is walking the track right now and what she's wearing is blue jeans and a black coat. she goes by honey. >> the task force combines federal and state local investigators to combat the growing underground sex trade. >> a lot of these girls have ran away from home, or do not have the support at home or the love they feel, the attention they need at home. so when they leave home, these predators and pimps start to locate them, manipulate them, groom them, and they feel loved. whether it's mental, physical, emotional abuse, it's still a type of affection. >> tonight, the team will be traveling from hotel to hotel. >> why don't we do a 16-man up there at the hotels. >> undercover officers set

updates with women. close cover officers monitor the rendezvous. and they move in when a deal for sex has been made. >> lights. >> the first goal of the task force is to identify and rescue juveniles from traffic customers. >> i'm not from here. >> how old are you? >> 18. >> in this case, the young woman is 18 but she's not from detroit, and investigators suspect she's being trafficked. >> did you purchase the room or someone else purchase for you? how did it work? >> they bought it. >> are they here? >> no. i'm here by myself. >> police suspect her pimp may be nearby watching and waiting, but she's not about to give him

up. >> these girls are brought into a hotel, separated from their family and friends or any support group they have, and they stay in a hotel waiting for the next call. >> before you go anywhere, is there anything i need to be aware of in the room? any guns? >> no guns, no weed, there is some alcohol. >> nickey tells the police she was recently kicked out of her mother's house and is relatively new to the game. without meaningful intervention, sanchez says girls like this are high risk for getting an addiction. >> the unfortunate reality of it is we arrest hundreds and hundreds of girls involving prostitution and only a handful are the ones that are not involved with taking a narcotic. >> just an hour after nicki's arrest, blocks away, police find the union of drugs and prostitution on full display. >> 115, right?

>> where are your clothes at? nope. don't move. stay right there in the seat until i get your clothes. okay? >> 33-year-old holly is no stranger to the game. >> what's going on? >> a resident of ohio, she's been in michigan for a month staying at various motels and posting online ads for sex. a quick serve of her room turns up condoms, $259 in cash, and dozens of used syringes. >> what do you use the needle for? are you diabetic or using it for other purposes? >> how many packs do you shoot a day? >> barely anything. >> you don't have any with you? >> no, no drugs, just needles. that's all. >> you have to have something here. a thorough search yielded no drugs tonight, but they think holly's supplier may also be her

pimp. >> he is probably out here somewhere. >> you have pimps that will use drugs to control the girls quite a bit. they will supply her, get her hooks on heroin, cocaine, or crack, and at that point, that girl is dependent on that drug. it's like a vicious cycle where the girl is hooked, she needs the drugs, and the pimp say dos this and i will give you drugs. the pimp says, do this, and i'll give you drugs. >> among holly's belongings are dozens of photographs that show her in younger days along with companions including an unknown male who may be her pic she is on a bed covered in money. they are the fading troubles of a young woman that uses heroin to cope. >> i would say if you think about it, that girl is about to have sex with a stranger for

money, doesn't know if that guy is going to rob her. guys are violent at times. that's a coping mechanism for them to separate themselves from their body just to get through this. >> coming up, a mother of four struggles to feed her habit and her children. >> i mean, i don't approve of what you're doing. but if you're going to do it, you have to be safe. >> my baby's birthday is tomorrow. ...the mickelson exxonmobil teachers academy... ...and astronaut sally ride's science academy are helping our educators improve student success in math and science. let's shoot for the stars. let's invest in our teachers and inspire our students. let's solve this.

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it's saturday night in the motor city, and investigators with michigan's human trafficking task force are conducting undercover sting

operations. >> where are your clothes at? >> tonight's arrest begin to provide us with a rare and unsettling look at the chronic drug problem that goes hand in hand with life in the underground sex trade. >> that's the most i have seen in forever. >> the unfortunate reality of it is that we arrest hundreds and hundreds of girls involved in prostitution. only a handful are not involved with a type of narcotic. as time goes on, these girls need that numbness or fix to continue to go on from the work their doing. >> in countless hotels and motels up and down the boulevards of motor city, the same scenario plays out tonight and every night. a young woman sits in dark drinking or shooting dope trying to forget the last john and waiting for the next one. >> he is rolling in right now. i see his brake lights. >> sometimes that next day is

actually an undercover cop. >> 219. >> the woman in room 219 is no stronger to police. >> i don't approve of what you're doing here, but if you're going to do it be safe. >> my baby's birthday is tomorrow. it really is. whatever. >> she is 32-year-old crystal manuel, a mother of four with a long history of prostitution and drug charges. >> she indicated to us that she started when she was under age. she did not come from a strong family background. she started hanging out with the wrong crowd and she got hooked up with a gentleman she thought was her boyfriend and now he is her pimp. >> i'm from livonia. >> her room yields crack cocaine and a makeshift pipe. >> she is just trying to put food on the table from her children because she's not

getting any support from anybody. in order for her to do that and cope with what she has to do on a daily basis, she resorts to narcotics. >> have you been drinking tonight? i just want to make sure you're okay. >> my baby's birthday is tomorrow. >> if you want to see your baby we can make it happy. detective sanchez might be willing to cut her a break in exchange for information about her pimp, a man named gregory smith, also known as "g." >> are you still working with g? >> no. >> i have a baby by him. >> she will deny every time we have an encounter with her. she will deny she has a pimp, but he is mentally, physically, and emotionally abused her in so many ways. she has a child by him and there is that connection there. >> he texted me and said that he should a left me in jail.

>> who said that? >> g. >> they were caught up in the 2007 murder of a juvenile named kathleen jasmine haul. they delivered her to the john's apartment where she was tortured and killed. the john got life in prison. >> i know all about it. >> i know about it. >> why haven't you talked to us about it then? >> it's not my problem. >> they're working to build a federal trafficking case against g and want crystal to cooperate. >> i know who you are, you're not a bad person at all. i think you got hooked up with g when you were too young. >> no. >> come on, he is not good news, you know that.

>> but crystal is not about to give up g tonight. in the jargon of the sex trade, she remains true to the game. >> they deny there is a pimp, they don't want him to get in trouble and have the repercussions of what he can do to them. so we still see their continuously scared to testify against these pimps. >> he's not good for you. >> no, i know -- >> he's not, you deserve better than this, you know you do, i know you do. these guys take shrank of the girls, play their game with them, and then what happens to the guys? nothing. the girls have to go to jail all the time. they don't deserve it, they have babies to take care of because daddy is not taking care of the babies. >> because they don't never.

>> they take advantage of you guys and you're like okay, whatever you say, g. you know who i'm talking about. >> don't matter who you're talking about. yep. because when they leave i'm like hey, yeah. here i go. baby, changing the diapers and -- >> there you go, exactly. >> you're the one doing all the work. >> here we go, yep. >> i know you are. >> yep. >> where is he, out smoking some weed, banging another chick? exactly, you know that. >> yep. >> and you're the one that has to go to jail. >> and we protect him for some reason because he is the nicest guy in the whole world. >> no, i haven't talked to him in years. >> doesn't pay for the babies or take care of them, and you're working trying to make ends meet to feed the baby. i know you're not a bad girl. >> although crystal has not been legally punished for her role in jasmine's death, detective sanchez says women like crystal

cannot escape the sordid sentence that comes with life in the underground sex trade. >> they just don't know where to go, who to turn to, who to trust. they have been beaten down so long to make them feel like they're not existent. so we're looking for some way, some how, for somebody to help them. you can't always do that unless they want help themselves. that's where we get stuck. not a lot of them want to go that extra mile or get away from their comfort zone because they lived that life so long they don't nowhere to go. you run into that quite a bit. >> did you find the heroin? >> up next, addiction can touch anyone. even the all-american girl next door. >> i thought i could do it once and stop. i didn't know that i would do it the one time and that would be it, i would be addicted right off the bat. thought they were dead.

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tonight, investigators with michigan's human trafficking task force have shown us how life in the sex trade can easily lead young girls and women into a downward spiral of alcohol abuse and drug addiction. >> have you been drinking? that's okay, i just want to make sure you're okay. >> you're working with gracey? >> i'm not working with anybody. >> gracey's stuff is here. >> who is that? >> i don't know her. >> they suspect grace may also be selling sex out of the room. >> okay, there is a white female here roaming around with dark brown hair. she is probably 5'2". >> yeah, i have a female, she's inside on the phone, this has got to be her. can you bring the i.d. over here? >> grace, what are you doing here? >> i let her use my room. >> why?

>> i don't know. >> what's going on? who are you working with now? >> nobody. >> was that cocaine in your purse? >> in my purse. >> where are we going? >> grace is no stranger to detectives. you know me i'm not a drug addict. you want to drug test me. >> why are you still working? >> i'm not sanchez. >> just be real with me. >> are you working the track anywhere? >> just the hotels. >> this can be done. >> i'm sick today. i'm not working. >> although grace admits to being a little drunk, she did not break any laws and police cut her loose. >> you know, you're lucky i like you, grace. if i catch you, next time you're going. you understand that, right?

>> yes, sir. >> cases like crystal where women slide from prostitution into drug addiction are all too common. while she is bound yet again for jail, the task force moves on to their next target. >> i've been conversing with this female through e-mail. >> an undercover has made an out call date with a woman who clef verly listed on craigslist. >> she wants to get a room here. once he makes the deal outside, we'll go in and arrest her. >> outside a quiet suburban motel, close cover officers eyeball the rendezvous while arresting officers move in slowly waiting for the good deal signal to make the bust. >> she agreed.

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 the keys? >>. >> i didn't see her throw them. >> the through the conversation with her, she concealed the keys from us and concealed her phone which made us believe that there's something in the vehicle that she doesn't want us to see. >> so what's your deal? what's going on? what are your concerns? talk to me. >> i have a drug problem. >> so you've got a little bit of drugs in the car. no big deal, okay? >> did you find the heroin? >> looks like she's got a bunch of heroin in there. >> it's probably heroin right 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. >> what's so wrong with you that you're getting addicted to it? you don't appear to be a girl that needs to be on that stuff. >> i know. that's why i'm doing this because i'm addicted to it, you know. >> how long have you been out here? >> what do you mean? >> involved in prostitution. >> almost a year, since last january. >> and that's how you're feeding the addiction? she's been a prostitute for about a year and has an addiction problem with heroin and 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 grew out of control. >> with a $300 a day habit, it's a battle she's losing.

>> especially -- especially heroin. it changes your brain. when you don't have it, you feel like you're dying almost. your body tricks itself. it's like you have to have it or you're not going to live anymore. like you're dying. >> unusually articulate, educated, and self-aware, officers are surprised to learn dana's downward spiral from honor student to addict to prostitute began with a sports injury. >> i had a really bad rotator cuff and i was at the point where i could keep playing but i was like basically putting a bandage over it with taking like painkillers that were prescribed to me and oxycontin. >> dana says she graduated to heroin when her health insurance ran out and she could no longer afford prescription drugs. in the cold quiet of her jail cell, struggling without heroin

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this young woman, who we will call dana, was a highly recruited college athlete just a few short years ago. at dana's request. >> i had scholarship officers from i can't even count how many universities. i could have basically played sports anywhere that i wanted to. >> she now admits it was the lowest part in her life. dana was arrested in a federal sting aimed at rescuing trafficked girls. >> she did not work for a pimp. she had a little bit of heroin with her. she was reluctant to assist us at first because she was scared. >> the college student admitted to being addicted to heroin after a devastating sports injury and 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, played a lot of sports, was really active. >> raised in rural michigan, dana personified the all-american girl. studious and athletic, dana was not just good, she was exceptional. >> i was always a bright child, very athletic. anything i picked up i excelled at quickly. >> looking back now, dana says the punishing grind of the pressure to succeed 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 and tournaments and, you know, just different training sessions, weight lifting, running, everything. and it's just -- you know, it kind of consumes your life. >> big ten schools and duke came calling, offering dana full athletic scholarships but she says she started to rebell and

chose to stay close to home. >> by the time i got to college, i was just like, i just want to hang out and have fun with my friends. it felt like a job almost. the enjoyment was gone. the fun in it was gone. it was so serious. at that point, it's all about paying for your school. >> after a shoulder injury and 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 start taking ibuprofen all the time and that sort of escalated into vicodin and stuff like that. >> after a year of prescription drug and alcohol abuse, dana entered rehab only to meet an addict who introduced her to heroin. >> you know, i tried heroin one time and that was it. it was a wrap. i don't even know how to describe it. any pain in my life, any hurt in my life, any 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 mace see who says he counsels many high achieving young women and men who have sold themselves for drugs. >> heroin addiction or opiate addiction is a brain disease. >> a former addict, scott macy knows firsthand the devastating result of chasing the dragon. >> addiction, you know, just takes over any type of thought process, any type of -- if just takes over their life and it's just an obsession of the mind. >> dana says her $20 a day fix quickly escalated to a $300 a day habit transforming her into

a vulnerable fiend. >> a drug dealer who had been very fond of me kind of made me an offer that i couldn't refuse where he said i'll give you x amount of drugs if you let me sleep with you. >> the memories of selling herself remain a source of trauma for dana. >> it was very hard on me. i was so upset i was crying afterwards. i felt so weird. i remember sitting in the shower for like a half hour after crying. you know, what am i doing? am i going crazy? >> well, those who are open about their sex experience, i would say it's about 95% admit some sort of drug addiction. >> the trafficking survivors that she counsels, says that pimps and drug dealers use the powerful need for drugs to enslave women. >> drugs call physical addiction. your body goes through

withdraws. so even though the pimp is nowhere near, the physical need for the drug exceeds any need 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 have go up to cvs and say, please, may i have some heroin. >> once i saw the money that i made from it, that hushed any concern or any negative concerns that 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're aware of all of the parties 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 men that created an online website where the girls would go there and post and people could call you and set up, you know, a date with you. >> it was kind of like a secret society type of websites where the average person has to apply to be able to gain access into society. and you basically fill out a form on the internet and they actually do a background check on you through the information that you provide to them and it's very difficult to get into these websites. >> and what kind of men frequent the secret society? >> that messed with trust issues with me, trusting people. i mean, you look at that and you see that, just like the deception there and sometimes hearing people that you're with, like calling their wives while they are in the room with you, i'll be home in an hour, and now you're going to sleep with me and you just got off the phone with your wife? i dealt with that a lot. that was very, very hard.

>> she says despite the mystique, there is nothing sexy about women who are bought online. >> it's hardly glamorous. it's violent and it's ugly and it's quick and it's nameless and it's hurtful. >> fighting to stay clean remains a daily struggle for dana. with the support of her family, she's made the difficult decision to go public in order to help other struggling teens. >> my real hope is that from my experiences, you know, if i could help one person that's maybe teetering on the edge of addiction and trying, you know, a harder drug or maybe someone that is already addicted to maybe thinking of selling themselves, to help them maybe step back from that, it would make me feel like everything that i went through wasn't for nothing. coming up, a wake-up call for a young woman being recruited by a pimp.

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>> i think this young lady is teaching that young lady. >> we witnessed a case like that on a sting in the suburbs of detroit. >> how much was it for a two-fer? >> $260. that was a surprise. i thought there would be one young lady but there was two. >> does that happen a lot? >> not really. >> at 19, police say this young woman named april is actually the experienced one. she's familiar to the task force for a prior arrest when the team almost nabbed her pimp. >> who is this guy right here? >> he met with the undercover officer once the girl had the money, she actually slipped the money up under her door to jason. he picked up the money. he was detained in the stairwell by the arrest with our undercover money. >> tonight, they say police was using april to break in this new

recruit, a 23-year-old we'll call lori. >> she tried to convince me that her friend was okay and she was there to have a good time as well. at this point this girl looked out of place. it was evident that this was probably her first rodeo. she was very out of place. >> back at the state police post, investigators separate the women for further questioning. >> hey, how are you doing? do you want to talk to me? >> no. >> not at all? >> no. >> how come? >> because i don't want to talk. i want a lawyer. >> not a problem. >> tonight, april takes the fifth but her friend lori is ready to talk. she tells police that she was unwittingly tricked into the situation by april and her pimp jason. >> she was told that she was going to just answer the calls but then she was encouraged to watch and then if she felt like she could, that she was supposed to get involved.

and she was upset about it. you know, felt awful about it. >> police say that young women like lori usually don't fall into prostitution overnight. it's often a process that takes a lot of time and a lot of smooth talk from so-called romeo pimps like jason. >> pimps will take months to groom a girl because they know towards the end that girl is going to be selling her body for them. they will take them out to dinner. they will say, i have feelings for you. they will buy them gifts and all that. they may start off slow, hey, i've got these other girls doing that. i just need you to answer the phones. at some point that's going to change. >> tonight, jason was arrested outside the hotel room that he rented for april and lori. but he does his best to convince detectives that tonight's run-in with the law is just one big

misunderstanding. >> what happened with you tonight? >> apparently somebody that was in a room that i rented out did something wrong and the fact that it was my room -- >> do you think you were wrongly brought down here? >> i definitely was -- i didn't do anything wrong. if something went wrong in the room or whatever, i wasn't there. it's just the fact that it was my room. that's what i got brought down here for. >> jason's on-camera performance is just one example of a pimp's capacity for smooth talking lies as he seeks to put distance between himself and his girls. >> well, that's typical. most pimps will do that, where they will distance themselves from the room and the girls and act like they don't know them. >> we just need to see what evidence might be on the cell phone between her cell phone and your cell phone. >> he says that romeo pimps --

>> it's just like a sports player. some guys are good at hitting a baseball. some guys are good at jump shots. these guys are good at lying to females or just lying in general. >> i'm not really sure too much why i'm here right now. >> really? >> yeah, i'm not. >> do you know what human trafficking is? >> i believe the human trafficking is forcing people underage to do sexual -- forced to do anything. >> is this your -- >> they should be stopped. that's terrible. but i don't understand, you know, people that don't have anything to do with that is just kind of washed up. i don't understand, you know. >> i think the reason that you were brought down is because the girls in the room, one of them is your girlfriend -- had -- they made an appointment with an

undercover officer to have sex with him for money. >> you know what, i don't believe that. you know, until i talk to who was involved and i don't know what was going on, i wasn't there. so somebody that would be my girlfriend would do something like that. i don't know who was there and what was going on. i don't know if you have the right person or what, as far as who is my girlfriend. >> jason's ongoing effort to play dumb for our cameras is finally thrown aside when police release his girl april. >> so is this your girlfriend? >> yeah. >> just like you saw, told you all those things and then at the end of the night with their tickets, they walked out together. >> you've got to come get me. they are not going to let me go unless you come get me. >> as far as lori is concerned, police hope that tonight's trip

to jail will make her think twice about hanging out with people like jason and lori again. >> my take on it is she's got an acquaintance, the bad friend that everybody worries about, the bad friend that makes the bad decisions. you would like to think, yeah, that changed her. >> i think this is going to be a good night for her because she's going to hopefully get a wake-up call, hopefully realize what a dangerous road this is and kind of see the err of her ways. up next -- neither rain nor sleet nor gloom of night shall stay these troubled souls from working to feed their desperate need for drugs. >> how powerful is that addiction? >> very. get better results in ap courses. together, they raised ap test scores 138%. just imagine our potential... ...if the other states joined them. let's raise our scores. let's invest in our teachers and inspire our students.

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for those who wonder what ultimately happens to exploited women once they can no longer

make money for their pimp. >> this area has a lot of drug activity, a lot of activity going on. >> unfortunately, the ones that work out on the street are just trying to survive. >> here on detroit's john r. stroll, it only takes investigators a minute to spot desperate women strollsing for days. >> what's going on? is it slow today? >> real slow. >> everything okay out on the streets? >> unphased by law enforcement or our cameras, wot women speaks openly about her work. >> we're talking about babies. >> under 18 or --

>> detectives suspect this woman is probably out here in the rain today to feed a serious drug addiction. >> i will probably lean towards crack or heroin for her, just her face, her loss of teeth. >> how addicted is crack? >> your first hit you can get addicted to crack. it's highly addicted. >> many of these abandon houses often serve as drug dens, doling out all vices to feed a junkie's habit. >> sometimes they will sell dope out of a vacant home. that way if the police come buy, they don't have any connection with that house. sometimes they will live somewhere on the block. they will store their dope in the vacant house. >> vacant houses can serve as makeshift brothels where dealers

perform sex acts out in full view of others. >> in some crack houses, there are women who are sold extra to the drugs. you buy the drug, you get a woman. they keep the woman high so they are just there as the extra large fries with milk shake, if you will. >> somebody on this porch sitting. enjoying the weather a little bit. >> just a few minutes later ex detectives spot a woman out in the stroll in the pouring rain. >> what you doing sweetheart? >> a little bit. >> a little bit of fun? how much? >> at first the woman is understandably wary of the clean cut men in suits but what follows is a bit of cat and mouse that speaks volumes about the overwhelming power of drug

addiction. >> do i look like a cop? >> i don't know. >> do you have a place around here? >> yeah. >> where at? >> the motel. >> which one? out here? >> uh-huh. >> how far is that? what's the name of it? >> what room number? >> i don't know. you didn't pay attention. sorry. >> visibly nervous, the woman gets suspicious and hurries away. but after one more trip around the block, she is ready to make a deal. >> i tell you, these girls -- >> are you good with that? >> i'm going doing a dock meant industry of young girls. >> you're okay, sweetheart.

>> i don't want you to get in trouble. >> drug addiction. >> how bad is it? >> well, i left my family six months ago. >> how powerful is that addiction? >> very. >> and then did you have children? >> yeah, four. >> and where are they now? >> they are grown. they live -- they just live down south. i never used drugs when i was pregnant. >> at 41, this mother of four says she's been out on the streets for about a year and admits her addiction to crack leaves her powerless to change. >> i would do it, but i just can't hardly -- i don't want to go to jail. i just can't seem to get -- i can't seem to get over the hump. my friends have been killed out here. >> really?

from what? >> dates. people. i have a girlfriend who was -- i was with her and she was shot in the head two weeks ago. >> who was she shot by? a john? >> i don't know the person. i know what he looks like but i don't know him. >> was it a date? >> uh-huh. >> or was it a pimp? >> no, there's no such thing as pimps out here. >> you're out on your own? >> hopefully. you don't want anybody to grab you, beat you and take your money. >> did somebody kill your girlfriend? >> uh-huh. >> were you with her? >> that night i was. i didn't go where she went and she was killed when she got there. >> although the unsolved murder of her friend still terrifies her, the woman says the need for crack cocaine keeps her out on the streets. >> you know, if people weren't so harsh, if they helped you to

get off of it instead of forcing you, maybe you could make it. my advice is just don't ever try anything. not even a little. even if you're uncomfortable, get through it. thank you so much. >> take care. >> good luck to you. >> as the woman disappears into the downpour, we are reminded of dana who also walked these desperate streets hungry for her next fix. but today dana says that staying sober is the only way to stay off the street. >> it's a fight but, i mean, it's a fight worth fighting for, you know, to stay clean, and i'm aware of that. and i just really hope that i can continue forward and just don't ever go back to it.