>>it's the drug that nevever goes out of style ---- heroin. >> you'l'lsee doors, you'll see nurses. yoyou'll s other professionals, wall street types. >> it's found a new generation >> it's ke the warmest blanket on the coldest day. >> where would agents of the drug enforcement administration as they patrol the seets on an undercer hern operation. >> they got them. they have them. >> on the east coast, heroin doesn't comerom afghanistan or soutast asia anymore. >> i'm holding $2 million worth of heroin iny hands. >> now it's coming from the place made famous by cocne and punough to kill. >> that one ti that somebody makes a decision to use it, it's

like playing russi roulette with your fe. >> it's big busiss coming into the country hidden in unbelievle ways. what's the stranst thing you've seen ineroin smuggling? >> it has to be the quid heroin i iide thpuppies. >> and a controvoversialeroin overdose antidotote. you'll see it brina user back frfr t thedge of death. >> there he is. back frorom e e de. >> heroin, a deaeay y dr and a business t tt t istill ourishing and recruititingewew cucusters every day. r r ds. >> i watched two of my fririen die e fr i it. the parents like to s s i it' not happening g soe e cle our eyes and kids contntueue tdie. >> heroin is one of f thmomost

didicte drugs known. it's cheap.. it's easy to get. cece user is hooked, it cacan for r li.. for the drug traraffkekersho deal in it, it's a hugelely ofofitle business. heroin use i ia a mar problem in the northeastern u.s. . anthth federal drug enfnformeme agency is workingngarard do something abt t . we rode along g thth t dea in new jersrs a as dercover agents hit t thststres in search of heroin. it didn't takeke lg.g. >> thehe svevelance team is all set up. the undercovovereaeawill drive up, papa h hisehicle, walk up to ththlocation. the sellererilill y, hey, what aryoyolooking for? tellll h w wt he's looking for. he'll make thehe b.. we'll juju o out and make the arrest.

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right there? >here? >> a a tt of themm a tteeriri, eyey kwthat at some point ey could get caught. so they're j jt t waing for it toto hpepeand hoping it doesn't. all right. guys. th saw the camera. a meme aaga. they saw a a camera agaiai coming back t tordrds . what's t tt,t, bdy? >> 's's coming b ba towards m. my man's aboututto circumstance the block and c cmeme bbac >> he's waitining? >> all right. >> his m m isiriring the blbloc will be back in n miminu. > wgood? >> all r rig, , o. all righght,e'e' good. >> so, n nowwhwh happened? t the undercovov m madthe buy. he gavave e e gnal. we're allolowi h h to walk out of the area and then w we' going to pull up and m me e th

arrest. all right. wewe'rrolling. >> they've got h h.. that's affirmamati.. they havave m.m. >> it's an a a t tooamiliar scene.e. young man from one of f ererics inner cities caught in the act ofofelelli what the drug enforcement admiminirarati says is heroioitoto aundercover dea agent. what does ththiseaea >> well, it's ininsiififant in the big g scmemef hings, but you have to conststtltly after every lit b of it and that's what this was. ybybthis person will coopepera and give us the e ggggerish. that's what we're lookokinfofor. you got t ?? good. >> it's just a atatash what he'll do o ise'e' keep it there so if he gets jumpeded o e corner like this,s, ty y n't find t therurugs wellll, j jt found the drugs. >> there's'sctctuay a brand? they makake brbranout of this? >> it's s a bebethat they use, a marketing toto t thathis is my

prucuct. cacallf duty. so youou kw w ere to come back to. >>literally, ten bucucks h h? >> $8 to $ $. . >> is it safe to say a a l o of times when w wrereadbout these big drug busts, , bi international l dr b bts, that ey started at a streetetevevel >> absolutely. this is where e ittatart eventually i it' b bng us right back to colombia wherere t heroin probably caca f fro and that's t theoaoal. >> the drug that's beeeen e e scourge of the innnneritity r decades s s s onunlikely market that keeps o on owowg. as this dea surveillanan v vid shows, a lot of pepeop w whoou wouldn't expecect avavelg to the city to o buhehero. >> when n roroinirst came to the scenenininew york, itit usededoe considerer a a dirty d dru where the inner ctyty users were oooong it up, injecting itit. w with the higher rity, we get t afueue people from thee buburb coming into thhe city, puhasing this heroin t tha's

hi purity anand thth smoking itr r snting it. 's become chic. >> it's s be c cald the perfect orm in all the wrong directions. very pure heroinin tt't'easy to get for lele t thathe price of a six-pack of beer is s fldidi the surbs of the northeast and it's no o ngngeroming from sosoutasasasia or afghanistan. mexico actuauallsusulies most of the e heininest of the mississippi, but the biggest supplier in n th noheast is a country ththat made its r repatn selling another drug - - colombia. ththou some intelligence analysts andnd l e enfcement officials disagree, as eararlys the 1980s there's evevidcecehat members of t thealalcocaine cartel in colombia decididedo o pand their product linine. >> everybody remembers " "mii i viviceinin t '80s. why did theyey stctch om cocaine h hern? >> greater profit mamarg with heroioin u u cacut it significantly more than yoyou n cut cocaine.e. > aororng to some law enforcement t ofcicis, when the calili ctetel alized that, it cacamep p th an ingenious way to tap into the new ameririn n

suburban market.t. >> how do o yogeget re customoms?s? yoyopuput t a cheaper product at a higher grade. ththpurity level went up. price gogoesowow ceptability is there.. boy, now you got y youelelf whole new w rkrket >> as colombian drug r runrsrs mped up ppduction, hehero's's ininueuencmade it to madison avenue and t the fashion pages where e lvlvin klein ads featurd top moolsls photogograeded to pepears havavgg the hollow-eye wasted look of hereroiadadcts. >> they called i it e e roin ch,, wrerethe moolsls looked alall ititand skinny. >> heroin hit ththe sisibusiness anand llywood but this time e wasn't make-believe. >> when ririr r phnix and kurt coininverdosed from heroin a and thenenouou srted hearing robert downey jr. and t thionone d that ararnd that celebrity, allll o a susudd i imade it like not only acceptatablbubuexpectable. >> the colombian c ctetel ed its established d cacainroutes

through central and d soh h america that w we e faer and cheaper than the old routetes ed toove heroin through france e d later asia. that's howhe ench connection becameme t c colbian connection. but when cali i caelel mbers re arrestedd i 1995, a w who nenegegenetion of heroin afafckers took their placece. >>ight now anyone in colombia th has a route basically to the unitedtas could be a substantial heroin trafficr. >> as opposed to these big centralized drug kingpins, are we talking about reallmore mom and pop opations? >> exactly. >> with a ofit margin of $200,000 a kilo, just er two pounds, drug smugglers beg figuring out new and betr ways smuggle heroin into the country. inorn flakes, in furnitu, hidden ihuman couriers, on cruise ship passengers, even i kidney bea.

>> if you fi something with a hole in it, ey'll attempt to stickeroin in it. we've made seizures ranginfrom soles of shoes, working car batteries,orking computer pas. it could go on and on. >> what's the strangest thing you' seen in smuggling? >> it has to be the liquid heroin inside puppies. believe itr not we have a vetenarian working in coloia which the poce discovered and they were cutting open puppies, inseing liquid heroin and shipping them tohe united states out of the sixogs were recovere four died, and two are actuly still living. one of t dogs they named roina. she waadopted by a colombian tional police officer anis a drug-sniffing dog in colombia working with the units tt we work with. >> the combian heroin that rehes new york and new jsey is the purest in the country sevetimes purer than heroin that was sold here 3years ago. anthat mes there's more money to be ma when it's cut and sold. >> we heard about this phrase

"the money is mad on the table." # what does that mea >> it would mean tt's where you dilute the drug. that's wre you bag it. that's theistribution point. that's probably the grtest point where eye making the money is whethey're selling it the point. >> andometimes the heroin at's cut and packaged for distribution is hiding in pln sight. in nice neigorhoods like this one on the upper east side of new york city right next to an ementary school. >> heroin mills set up in these locations are not vy common, but it doesn't surprise me, because threeraickers try to blenin with the communities where they're undetected, they can set up their distrution. in this case, it was aually a etty good idea up to the pnt where th got caught. >> what habeen a good idea for colombn drug traffickers is to keep their busins all in the family. like this hero supill processing huge quantities o heroin behind closed drs in th quiet, residential neighborhood in the bronx.

>> went to thaapartment and upon entry we discoved about $6 millionorth of heroin ready for street distribution. when the ages went into this location they firsobserved a gym bag basically fullf u.s. currency. one of the closets, ey discovered aadr that went wn to the basement level. downstairs had ten women in there doing nothing but processing heroin. the women that we arrested were paid a fee toome he unedtates. theynew what the job was. when they were done they would be sent backome to their country. theyeren't allowed to make any phone calls. anyone.ren't aowed to contact they ate, slept, and pcessed heroin. >> why is it important for the ug dealers to make surpeop they senupere have relatives back in colombia? >> because they rule by fear. they send relatives,rusted members of tir families or friends, to the unitedtates to set up these heroin distribution

organizatis or they'll have the couriers sending heroin to the united states because they know that if theyot arrest, they're not gog to cooperate wi authorities and let us know who ty are, because for fear of retaliation against their family. >> this is really a utal business, ist it? >> is anredibly brutal business. and it is a business. >> high-quality hoin sold on new jeey streets. >>ey bro. >> hooking suburban ds right before their parts' eyes. >> i played football. i was geing good grades. ere was no signs to gi the an idea i was shti up hero.

high-quality hern from lombia is reaching theast coh america in airplanes, in cargo from ships and even in self-propell semisubmersible ssels.

d once it gets there, hein is being transported in ways you woul't believe. like these sixil of heroin worth $12 million discoved by the new jersey dea inside an audio spker. >>hefficers and agents when they took apart the eaker they found all these bricks of heroin inside >> wow. >> just full thiss l street level distribution ready heroin. ese arbricks. they're aldifferent brand nas. all glassine envelope on the outside intes to the distributor what brandhis brichere is stamped with. e distributor knows what brand name he's putting on the strt. >> even though it'all the same heroin they just stampt with a different logo. >> exactly. just a marketing plo this is a kilo of heroin, 2. pounds >> i'm holdingmillion worth of heroin in my hands. >> colombian heroin sold on the streets of new jersey is the purest in the country anthat's created a wholnew kind of heroin user as this dea

dercover video shows. >> what nd of people? >>ou'll see doctors. you'll see nurses. you' see other professionals, wall street types. you'll see suburban housewiv who are bored. yoll find college kids and young teenager it's unfortunate t people that are attracted to this. peopleanto alter their mind and drugs is the wro way to do it. feder officials say heroin used in suburban a rural communitie rising especially in the northeast whe heroin is as easy to get aa suburban train. >> what do you think t profile of the heroin user has changed fromhe '80s and '90s to today? >> because of the potey. that hurts us. and because they can snort it like they snorcocaine. there are more people at stted using heroin that would not have de prior. >> aording to a 2007 report from the national drug intelligenceenter, young adultsn new jersey are using

roin at a rate that's mo than twicehe national average. one thing i can describe it is like e warmest blanket on the coldest day. it's just at great, warming feeling that you can't even deribe. it's fabulous. >> the reverend joseph henin is a roman catholic priest and psyclogist who runs daytop new jersey, a residential dr and alcohol treaent program for teags. >> it's a high that makes th ds feelike everything is ok. there is no probm. it mellows them out. and heroin is extremely available to the subban kids today. parents dot ke to believe that. heroin is a drug that takes away all your emotions. when youe on it you don't feel anything. there is any pain or hurtn your le at that point you don't feel it at allnd i just love tt feelg because i had nothing to worry about. >> t problem is, once most heroin users become adcted to

the drug, eventually the oy way to satisfy theirit is wi a needle. >> my parents re really shocked because i was basically what youould call a functioning dict f almost three years beuse i went through three years hh scol and they had no clue what was going on. i was usinthe whole time. i played footbl. i was getting go grades. there was no signs really give them any idea that i was, you know, shooting up heroin. >> my best friend oversed and died and i had to witness al that. that's another reason why i was so scared to do the heroin because watched two of my fries die from it. >> en so, this teenager did try heroin for the first time before entering treatment for her adction to prescription opiate pn killers which she bought on the street. her favorite? oxycontin. >> my friends had a lot of i all the ti. it was in their medi cabinet and we alws went through the medicine cabinet and tn from that day when i tried it, i lod it. i mean, i wentnto like a comply different world.

>> dubbed llbilly heroin after an epidemic of ase swept through the appalachian mountains in 2001,xycontin was first marketed as a postoperate pain killer. t illicit drug users soon discovered they could crush oxycontin pills to orcome their timed release effe. young people beg stealing prescription pain killerlike oxycontin from their parents' medicine cabinets, but when the supply runs o and the drugs are toexpensive to keep buying on the street, there is one chp substute that's availae everywhere. >> heroin is lot cheaper than oxycontin. i s paying $50 a pill for 80 mg of oxycontiand veus the heroin that's on like $6 or $7 a bag. and people were geing the heroin because they couldn't afford the oxycontin. >> officials in connticut are concerned that the rise in the illiciusof prescription opiate pain killers like

oxycontin could be fling t incrse in heroin addiction in 18 to 24-year-olds wch rose 18% between 2003 a 2006. purdue pharma which mas oxycontin d t respond to our request for an interview. itdrug does carry the fda's stro strongest warning label d the company has aed the fda to approva new version of oxycontin whh it says is harder to use. meanwhile in 2007 the natial drug ielligence center ranked heroin the most rious drug threat in new england. >> schools don'tanto say that there are drugs availle. th retors don't wa to say that there are drugs in e community. and so it is the big, silent epidic in the suburban erica. >> the dea back on the street. >> got a good eyon it. camera's good.

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good morningeverybody. good morni. >> we're going to beoing three buys today pursuant to the domest monitoring program. it is a why buy/walk on all e of these,o no arrests are gng to be initiated, unless our extraction teams, again, safety, safety, safety, for undercov and our charlies. >> we're inside the dea's mestic monitoring programs which buy small quantiti of heroin to te its strength and find out where it comes om. we went along on one oits operations to find out how eas

it was to make a buy. the location we're going, again, are known locations for huge heroin distribution. so, you kn, they're going to have lookouts d we'rused to th so just be advised. we don't want to get too comfortable. do what we normally do. thanks a lot. it up, and meet in the basement in five minutes a we'll depl. >> we were just making a buy right now. we're not going to arrest anody. we want to know purity andhe signate of what type of heroin is being sold in the city. it's a road map for dea to say hey, lten, the highest purity of heroin is in this city or that city so we can really

reformat our eorcement efforts and it's invaluable information that we get om these buys. >> theig thing going on right now is heroin. hein is very big in the northeast. people don't realizeow hot it is here in new jersey. the purity we have in new jerseyas ranked one or two in the last five or six years of the hiest level of street vel purity in the country. >> timis also on our side. this is at we do every day. >> get ready to roll. >> okay. be advised, teams. we cano ahead and let charlie out but keepn eye on him. give me some feedbk. let's go with it >> the uncle is the a' undercover agent and t charlie is the dea's confidential informant.

be advised, he's pulling in. pulling in right in front of the pizza place. >> our survelance agents are picking up our uercoveand our right now and they're puing it out where they are. >>ot a good eye on joe right now. cara's good. ten four? >> the guy walki behind you with t blue ones and light-lod jeans, i ink he wants to ge, man. >> that guy right here >> the undcover engaged one of the individuals. sobody will run for it and bring it back. ey don't want to have it o themselves. they don usually keep it on their person. wh they'll do is they'll keep stash area somewre close to the vicinity they're waiting. he's going to go g the bundle, bring it back, and theyou'll see the exchge being made with the moy and the drugs. >> the dea hicter captures the hando-hand exchange with its eye in the sky.

>> the guy camack and handed it to the guy. he's handing it f. >> you got ten right? >> eight? >> all right, l be back. >> that looks to be a positive transaction there. we took care of it. it's done. >> madehe buy. we're coverin theundercover with surveillance, justn case, bring m right back to our office. >> this t labeling that they use. this is the stamp here is paris for paris hilton. ten theselassines are in a bundle and we'urchased this bundle for $80. >> we watched as dea undercover agentsought what they said was heroin two mormes that day. >> 70s good, right? >> 80. >> all right. t seems like for young people, for minors, heroin's

easier to t than a pack of cigarees or a six-pack of beer. >> heroin easy. we're finding al nadays that pharmaceutical pducts are the first step into drug use the uth are pilfering pills from the medicine cabinet,rom their rents' medicine cabinenet or their fendsparents. >> i got thhese afteter my hyerectomy or some, ctomy. this orange onis -- i've got o. >> f teens, getting drugs can be as easy as opening your medicine cabin. >> once th've started with any kind oillicit substance used ilcitly as in the case of pharmaceuticals theyo on other things. hein is easy to buy and cheap and you and i could walk down the stre. they might recognize y but me a in a suit i could buy heroin on the street. >> we have some roin standards we use in the laboratories. >> at e dea's special testing and research laborory in virginiaheroin and other drugs fromround the world are tested to determine tir unique

signature, what they'rmade of, and where theyamfrom. >> these arerug samples that have come to the laborory for analysis. this is a rge amount of south aman heroin present in this baggin it's actually fr colombia an its purity is abou90%. >> 90% pe. >> 90%. >> is that where the danger of overdose comes from when youe got something that pure? >> yeah. if this product were to hithe streetand a heroin user accustomed to ing a less pure product to a large amount of this they could in fact overdose. you can see it's fine whit powder in its aparce, a lile off white in color. that's highlrefined, colombian or sth american high purity heroin. >> a oe it does hit the stre, the purest heroin in the nation becomes the deadliest. >> the devastaon of this is at one time somebody makes a decision to use it whether it's the first me or their last time bause of the purity of the heroin it's like pying russian roulette with yo life.

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only 17,000tickets, however, arbeing handed out. police are calling the death of rmer nfl quarterback stev mcir a homici. he was sho fourtimes. e man found next to him die from a single gnshot to the head. now back to al roker reporting. roin aiction is a full-time job. the us has to get regular fixes to avoid withdrawal. but thether risk is overdosing on too much. when that happens, dth can come qui. ere is an antidote to overdoses. it's very effeive bualso veryontroversial. asore high quality colombi heroin continu to hit the streets of the northeast, at record prices, more and more young heroin urs are ending up

in t emergency room, or worse, in the morgue. according to the drug abuse warning twork, between 2002 an2005, the number of e.r. visits related to heroin nearly doubled in t united states. >> what happens wi heroin is at, you know, oftentimes you're not prepared r en it tus on you. and sohe begning, when everything seems really good d, you know, the euphoria around the drug isctually takingway whatever is going on in your life, eventually that rns around to physical addictiowhe you have to have that drug in order to funcon daily. >> but the druthat can take away all the pain can al just as quickly e aeroin user's life. in n york and new jersey, heroin accounts for about one-fifth of a dg-related deaths. but there is an antidoteor roin and oippioid drug

ovoverexs that is as powerfuasas it is controversiaial. it's called naloxone alslsown by therarade name narcan. as you're abouout to seen this documentary abouug addicts in chicago,arca can lerlly ing heroin addicts whoho have overerdosebaba from near certain ath. at first, , the hein user is euphor. >> oh,h, my d.d. th is good. >> but w whin the and a half minutes he falls into a upor. oversing on heroin. as his breatathi slo his wife panics. >> o g. >> andnd the fililaker gives hi moutto-mouth resuscitation. when that fails, the filmake who carries narcan with hi bebecause of his work with addis gigis him an injection of it. only six and a halalf minute tehe's sitting up. >> there he is. ckck from the dead. ou just died. we h had tgive you narcan.

>> five minunutes aftethat, he's walking around. >> fit as a fiddddle. all l righ >> narcan n rkrks blocking the opte receptors in t the b bra atat hoin activates,, reversinig the slowdown in breathingng tt can lead to dedeh.h. it's been n eded iemergency rorooms d d paramedics for years. >>erere have an opportunity to help fofos s st alive so they can re-engage with theheir families. ththat a pretty powerful thingn when folks get a secononchchan in lifife. >>ararkinsley, a drug researchcher aththyale school of public health shouldld kno r r years kinsley was a recocovengng dg addict until one dadain 2005 when his work k reconnected him to hisis pas >> we were working with h acti drug u ursrs tt were injecting drs.s. and d i cicidely had gotten ststk with an infected s syrgeg

andadad to go on ofofa lactic, the medications, i i case t tha synge had been poposiveve, d went intnta a de depression. d even after 11 years ofof bei clean whwhen w weninto that depression, i knew w what ulul rerelie e myepression and that waa a g of heroin. >> mark kinsley quicklklbebeca addicted to ththdrdruge swore he woululd vever e again. >>ou know, we were using heroin. rly into the evening, i i had gone i intanan ordose as a resu o ousing too much heroin.n. and he administered the e antite to bring me e t t oft and did soso. i wish that would haveve stoeded meme fm using. it did not stop me froroususinat that pointnt. it ultimately y loloweme to get to alala where i wanted to stop usingngndnd w able to get reveve again. p pronents of delivering thth antidote directly to a addic a a their friendndanand milies call what t thedodo hm reduction, a way to keep opiatete dg g uss

alalivuntil they're ready totoet treatment.t. to me it's basicalally sinin 'l'ldo whatever we have toto d keep people alive eveveifif i meanseseing a very, very bad messssage o o kids, a very bad meage to the addict, andndusust hopi t tt someday they'll get t in treatment. i don'n'knknowoo many addicts o o co dancing into treatment t saying, hey, i need helplp. i'i'm rey.y. i didn't a and d don think many addicts did. >> mike gimbellllisis aecoverin heroin addictndnd drugddiction treatment expert w w w the directct substance abuse in baltimore county for 2 23 arars. >> i still b belie t tt the motivatiti f forn addict to stop is thehe fr r anthe pain that eieir diction is causing thehe narcan takes that fear a away. some government and l law enforcrcenent ficials also beeveve at it's a mistake to

vevearcan to users who arere n medically trained profesessions, that they may bebe ls s lily to llll11, making tracking ththe number of peopople ungngeroin even harder.r. >> it's not the narcrcan tt t makes people not call l 91anand totohehe ergency room. it the fear of arrest thatat makes s themototall 911. > ncan is not a cure for r ug addictctn n noa substitute for trtrtment. so the queststioisis, ould we be supplylyinitit taddicts to prevent them f fm m ovdosing if that allows s th t to ep using drugs s witht t ing into treatment? >> the bottom m nene tall of it, ththou, , whher narcan, not narc, , ere's no treatment. there's no treatmementutut tre. l l e politicians in the w wor that p preacananyell about trtreaent, there still is not t eaeatmt on demand for all those who want it, neeeed it can't t afrdrd i >> mark kinsley, whose l life s savevebyby ncan, says the choice

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pure heroin in the nation in hundreds of qut burbs like these to teenagers le alicia dubois. alicia duboiwas the alamerican girl, the girl everyone remembers because of her smile. i just remember her always wanting to go t and play all the time and she would always ask me tgo play video games with her, go oside with her, and she alys wanted to be dog mething. >> alicia was an honor student who loved the tdoorsnd, most ofll, painting. her dream wato go to art school and turn her ssion into a career. she led bright colors, anytng that looked really lively. her art work wasust fun to look at. >>ut in nuary of 2006, alicia's mother, tmy, died of cancer and overnight the teenager's world came crashing do. >> i noticed she was more sullen, a lot qur than she'd ever bee

i fired at the time it was because weere algoing througthe same mourning the loss of myife and her mom but i did notice that she was very quiet and withdrawn. >> alicibegan smoking marijuana anwhen her father found out she went into counseling. within weeks though e began using other drugs like ecstasy and prescriptionain killers oxycontin and oxodone ich the biggest clue to hedowardut spiral was in her ar >> after she start using drugs her arwo got a little more on the depressive side she did a lot of selportras and they lked like they kind reflected her and how sheas feeling. she never smiled in anof her self-poraits so it was kind of to look at. >> by the fall, alicia lost pounds. her behavior becoming more

erratic. she got into a car accident, was arrested for a dui, an third-degr larce. the day aftechristmas, her family's worst fea aut alicia were confirmed. >> i waswitching her laundry fromhe washer to the dryer and a small green packet fell out her jean st looking at it, you know, i got that kick in my stomach at i ew what it was. she admitted that it wasern and she had been usi for like o months. she de it clear to me that she was turned on to t heroin by one of her new girlfriends they h been doing oxycontin and oxycodone wh you' paying $10 per milligram, it got quite expensive, so theyried heroin. and pret much, you could buy it anywhere. it her answer to it. u know, where did you geit? she said i canuy it anywhere. >> alicia said she wanted to stop using heroin and checked into a drug treatment facility but in jt two weeks the

-year-old had signed herself out and retued home. i tried to talk her into staying and, you know,did the counselors tre, but she wasn't having any of it. e was re she would be able to take care of it. >> the vy xt day alicia drovwith a friend to buy heroin from their usual dealer. >> the last time i saw msister was the night before she died. she came in my rooand said, i love you. goodight. and i didn't really say anything. i said good ght to her. but i was d at her because i ew she had taken somethi that day and didn't know it was heroin. she had ju fell asleep after shoverdosed on her back and basically drowned herself in her sleep. that was the last time i sawy sister. >> that night alicia dubois died of an overdose of heroin mixed

with caine. she is buried ne to her mother leaving behind her artpictures that tell the sad story of a young woman caht in the grip of an diction she could not escape. >> you live a year of ling th guilt and what ifs, you know, those things never go away. theye the worst emotions to have, i guess, you kw, most useless, so if i can do sothing in alicia's name, in alicia's honor to save somne else, my daughter ani will do that, yoknow. >> the addicts' limited opons. >> treatme, longerm eatment, or death. >> and the search foswers to the heroin problem. >> some of the largest amounts we've ever seen are being proded every single day. who's buying the heroin? we are. this is the eny within. ddddd

it'snef the worst things in the world, waking up inhe morning not being able to get ouof bed unless you have that next sho not being able tgoo school unless you have that next fix. >> this teenager w lucky enough to get treatment for s heroin addiction but the vast majority of drug addicts who need treatment never get it. >> it's interting to me to listen to politician tlisten to the public, survey ter treatment is more effeivthan prison. >> 60784. >> we' not going to arrest o way out of this problem. >> all that'ue. if it's true, then why hen't built a drug treatment system big aour prison system? thank you. >> as the purest heroin in the nati continues to hit the

surbs ofhe northeast, every day teenags like alicia dubois are trying it r the first time without ever knowing tt it mit be their last. >>idn't think anybody who looks the way that we did and grew up the way we did would turn outo be a heroin addict. when i grew up i definely ha a stereotype andhought of drug users as different people t i know betr now. >> once you're hood on heroin, there are only two ways to end the heroin habit. >> and that is eitr treatment, long-term treatment, or at the parents likeo say it's not happening,otn my family, not in my community. so we close r eyes and kids ntinueo die. early half of the heroin addicts who were part of a long-term ucla studyied beeen thages of 50 and 60.

of those still living, 40% said they hadsed heroin within the past year. the ravages of heroin tas its toll on families, communities, and even on the men and won whose job it is to g heroin off the stre. >> you guys geup, you do your job, but yet it ill comes, no matter what there seems li there's always heroin. that frustrating? as it stands now, i don't know, i can't see annd to the heroin war. i mean, 're going to have to -- we got a lot of wo to do buthat doesn't mean we shouldn'coinue to work. >> some ofhe greatest, largest amounts we've evereen are being produced every singlday. who'buying it? who's buyi the heroin? we are. this is enemwithin. you know? if we don't buitit's not there. but we are. so if we don't c that demand, there will always beupply.

>>here is a problem. there's heroin everywhere. you may think oh, i lin middle of surb. it's not going to happen. it will happen. there's ugs everywhere, heroin everywhere. hard drug or try sometnge t will eventually findis way to get t that hern. > hoioin s first manufactured in germanynyn n th1870s. it w wasaiaid as the miracle drdr for pain relief. in fact, its name comemes omom t german word d fohehero. heroin was even a legagal prescription drurug rere ithe united statas s 10years ago ununl l itaddictive properties led to i it ining tlawed in the 1920s.s. t as we've seen, heroioin,ncnc., is still verermumuchn business. i'alal rer.