. >> find the heroin? >> yep. >> 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 undercover with michigan's human trafficking task force. >> are you taping me? >> for a sobering look at the overwhelming power of drug addiction in the business of sex for sale. >> i thought i could 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. how are you going to get that much money daily when your addiction is getting out of control and using so much of it? it's like 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

heroin in your system. and where are you getting the money for the drugs? >> you don't work. >> my friends they -- i get it from around. >> you make deals to support your habit >> kirk: are you stealing? are you prostituting? what are you doing? >> absolutely not. like i have friends that have a lot of it and they give it to me. >> kirk: just so you know those are not your friends. >> i know that [applause] >> kirk: i mean, have you been in dangerous situations? >> no, not really. no. >> you've never been in a dangerous situation? >> kirk: you probably don't know. you are high. has she been in dangerous situations? >> of course. she got caught with heroin. she got caught they were driving with a couple friends and you know, they got pulled over for a moving violation and she hid it but they had found it. she did not get arrested. but -. >> i'm having a flashback right now of when you were a little girl so beautiful so full of life so just an amazing little person. and it's just amazing to be sitting here ri

the street using heroin. narrator: there are also health risks associated with using heroin. if it's injected, there's a risk of hepatitis, of aids, of hiv, of many infectious diseases that are transmitted by the needle. for both heroin and cocaine, many of the public health problems one sees are related to the illegality of the drugs, and the difficulty individuals have in getting it, and in self-administering it in sterile ways. so they're very high-risk of infection. narrator: people who are not caught in the web of addiction have a hard time understanding its power and depth. it's easy for us to say "just stop." unfortunately, in that state, when people are physically dependent to drugs like alcohol or heroin, their brain is saying, "danger, don't stop this drug." we can recognize that, because in animal studies animals will tend to self-administer the same drugs that humans self-administer and abuse. so we don't need to think that there's something biologically abnormal about drug abuse, or that only som

he says heroin prices plummeted because supply has spiked. death from methadone also rising from 103 to 117 in virginia in one year, according to common wealth medical examiner reports the news4, i team reports. lsd use is up nationwide. tony says her son's addiction was at first invisible. >> can you believe he was able to hide this? >> he did it for a while. hid it for a long time. he was -- he became a functional addict. >> maryland's governor's office the state has increased drug treatment, 20,000 more people getting treatment from the state in 2012 than did in 2009. and the governor himself says, quote, we're losing more people to heroin than to homicide. scott mcfarland, news4 i-team. >>> doug is here with a look at our weather and this rain is going to be with us for a while, huh? >> it is. and i think it's going to be with us overnight and some of the biggest rain i think will come early tomorrow morning. that's going to effect rush hour tomorrow. probably going to need extra time when you step out the door. look outside right now. we

why more teens are turning to heroin and what south bay leaders just announced what they plan to do toress the problem. >>> if you missed the news today, we are just 90 minutes away from what appears to be the end of talks. the years of continuous dread have taken a toll on commuters. >> i'm very concerned with being held hostage as it were by people who make more money than i do. >> i'm furious. we've been putting up with this for a while, everybody is furious. they should lock them out. >>> and go to ktvu.com for everything from bus and ferry schedules to changes you will notice on some bay area highways. look for the special section right on our front page. >>> new at 10:00, south bay leaders tonight are issuing a warning about a growing heroin problem with young people. some as young as 14 years old. why they do it and the action that's being addressed to stop the problem, maureen naylor has the story. >> reporter: they're hoping that a new survey they're just about to launch will help address what they call a devastating drug problem. 24-year-old chris bunch is traveling the count

. >> recently there was a 14-year- old who's parents brought him in who was on heroin. >> the disturbi don't let the holidays sneak up on you. shop early with kmart free layaway. and get 5% off toys when you put them on layaway this weekend. kmart. get in. get more christmas. >>> new at 10:00, crime concerns were on the minds of dozens of people who live in oakland tonight. it was a full house this evening at faith presbyterian church to talk about hiring private security to protect the neighborhood. that's not the only oakland neighborhood considering doing that. one of the homeowners said she has been robbed twice. once at gunpoint and she's ready to take action. they say the security can supplement the police work. >> i really see it as us saying we really want the extra set of eyes and ears in our neighborhoods to make us feel safe and to actually have us be safer. >> reporter: an oakland police lieutenant told the crowd that while robberies are up police patrols are hoping to stem the increase. >>> a man robbed a woman at gunpoint around 6:30 last thursday night. least about 6'tal

around this area heroin is a big thing.o if they make enough money to get their hit, they'll do their hit and they'll crash for a little while. until their high is over. and then they'll come back out again and make more money. i guess you would call it a vicious cycle. >> just so you know, we're with the cook county police. you're under arrest. >> sergeant gary has more than 20 years on the job. the last 10 in vice. >> there will be some people to talk to you if you want to talk to someone from salvation army who can offer you some services. >> okay. >> in this part of town he sees a parade of wary women at the bitter end of life in the sex trade. >> where did you go? >> sergeant gary's vice squad runs regular prostitution stings all across cook county. >> all right. i'm behind him. >> they are the front-line soldiers in this jurisdiction's fight against trafficking. >> how are you doing, ma'am? >> hi. >> you're under arrest, okay? >> okay. >> we're the police. >> how much dope do you do a day? >> quite a bit. >> heroin or

the fbi says this ad offered high quality heroin conveniently vacuum sealed. a reporter for forbes magazine wrote in august about buying mare juana off the silk road website. >> it was very professional and sort of seamless experience. >> reporter: he called himself dread pirate roberts after a character in a movie. they also accuse him of offering money to have a user of the site killed who was threatening to expose it. but investigators say that was never carried out. >>> as you may know, for days now benjamin netanyahu has been warning the world that the new president of iran is a wolf in sheep's clothing with his conciliatory talk about peaceful nuclear program. he is keeping up the pressure in an interview with our chief correspondent andrea mitchell. >> everybody knows that iran wants to destroy israel, is trying to build atomic bombs for that purpose. you don't want to be where this regime has wild ambitions and they get away with building the weapons. >> reporter: two leaders with radically different visions on the world stage. netanyahu warning that r

she came in as a heroin addict and is now in pc. >> when i am high on heroin, like that story, the drll and mr. hyde, it changes me. it changes me. makes me like a monster. >> me, i did like terrible, horrible, horrible thing to my son. because of the drug. >> sanchez has been charged with serious bodily injury to a child. she admits to being high on heroin, and severely beating her 3-year-old son. when he was brought to the hospital, he was covered in bruises, had bite marks on his thigh, and one eye was swollen shut. doctors also discovered he had a lacerated liver, likely caused by blunt force trauma. >> when i am high on heroin, it is like anything triggers me. i'll just go off. i mean, i could be sitting next to someone. if some little thing irritate me, i'll start screaming, i mean, like on attack mode. it's -- it is scary. basically, i chose that drug over my kids. and they probably have a better life without me. >> sanchez's son has recovered, and is living with relatives. if convicted in trial, sanchez could face anywhere from five to 99 years in prison. but she is working wi

heroin is my drug of who is -- choice. i don't -- i drink like a fish when i can, i make better wine than you can probably buy. ferment fruit and sugar, put it together, warm it, stick it under the bunk for three days, strain it and drink it. >> he transitioned from a drug user on the streets to an enforcer for the aryan brotherhood in prison, responsible for collecting drug debts. >> my policy was if one of pie people got in a drug debt i would pull them up and say you're done, cut up their credit card, get together with white, pay their debt and he's done. if he gets drugs again then we'll stab him because he violated and i agree with that. there is drugs in prison, obviously. you get on a phone and cry to mom, i need $100 i broke a tv, whatever lie you want to tell. you get it to the street to the connection their old lady brings the dope and bring it back in. somebody will come to visit and they'll have their little balloons and they stick them up their ass, when they come back they [ bleep ] them out and clean them up

addicts my colleague visited one family in afghanistan three mothers all three addicted to opium heroin and marijuana they blow opium in the face of their children to make them fall asleep so that the grown ups can cater to their own addiction they give marijuana to their very young children they buy drugs before they buy food here's what their daughter said. it was the move my mother told me let's go to the bazaar i want to buy something for you i said really we went and my mother said to this man do you want to buy these grew he got to give you and give us a hundred f. so we went to buy some dry bread novelty my mom needed money and took my sister we were crying sue notch then she tried to sell me again i begged him not to and she said that if i go to people's houses and beg then to keep me so that's what i do the u.s. and allied forces have been doing little to stop opium production in afghanistan is killing more and more people and not just in the gunston but far beyond its borders of ghana's that produces around ninety percent of the world's opium supply the bulk of the eight hundr

you look at how the drug industry in the country during the day with the afghan made heroin spreading far across the globe. and unwanted settlement israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu visit to america trying to persuade the u.s. president to be cool to negotiations with iran that's coming your way with the rest of the world's top headlines for this. it is not floral from quarter past the hour here in moscow would sauti the israeli prime minister is now in the united states with a mission to persuade obama not to trust iran on a meeting with the president netanyahu him to well not to lift the crippling sanctions against the country at least not to do so prematurely and visit those spurred on by the thaw in relations between washington and tehran at the leaders of both nations made their first steps to long awaited talks on a possible nuclear settlement details here with auti is more important. he will be the last speaker wrapping up the united nations general assembly debate but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will likely not offer the same harmonious tone heard last w

a war that kills without weapons silently with heroin its production has increased forty times in the galveston since the medo started its war on terror in two thousand and one before that the taliban as brutal as they war heading forced the ban on poppy growing they declared it was against their religion so harry in production was very low when the us and allied forces invaded the country they allowed afghans to grow poppies they saw it as a way to win locals hearts and minds the u.s. and allied forces have maintained that opium production provides a livelihood for afghan farmers but it's been destroying their lives the lives of thousands of children around three hundred thousand afghan children are now drug addicts my colleague visited one family in afghanistan three mothers all three addicted to opium heroin and marijuana they blow opium in the face of their children to make them fall asleep so that the grown ups can cater to their own addiction they give marijuana to their very young children they buy drugs before they buy food here's what their daughter said well yes it was a lot

afghanistan we look at how the drug industry engulfed the country during the stay the afghan made heroin it's spreading around the world. and really freezing the fuel is right as prime minister benjamin netanyahu on a visit to america trying to persuade the u.s. president not to be too nice with iran that's coming your way after the break. so we need to be. part of the same bush and secure. the physical. issues that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politics. critic three. three. three. three. three. three. videos for your media. free media r t v dot com. news live from moscow it's r t the kaiser report soon and although the israeli prime minister is in the united states on a mission to persuade obama not to trust iran on a meeting with the president netanyahu urged him not to lift the crippling sanctions against the country well at least not prematurely his visit those spurred by the thaw in relations between washington and tehran if the leaders of both nations made their first steps to long awaited talks on a possible nuclear settlement were an important story

i'm a heroin addict, when you run out of money you find creative ways to buy more heroin and those ways were criminal. i had a fantastic career handed to me on a silver matter essentially and i squandered every bit of it. i was a classical flutist had a full scholarship to northwestern and my life was made and it was for the taking and i was introduced to heroin and other drugs i never even dreamed of using, completely destroyed my life. it's my fault. i'd given up everything, nothing was taken from me. and this is what i look forward to every week, i get a card every week from my mom. only person who writes me and visits me. i stack them on the floor wherever i'm at on the wall. they always smell good, which is cool. she sprays them with her perfume before she sends them. people get cards from their girls, i get cards from my mom. >> coming up -- >> i've heard through the grapevine i was the one that snitched on everybody. >> nick dicillo hoepsz for the best and prepares for the worst. >> if i do go to prison, i'll be in prison with these people. >> it's starting to kick in that the wa

. >>> and is the decade of research on hard drugs including cocaine and heroin heroin wrong? i'm antonio mora, on consider this. still spinning from iranian president rouhani, as al jazeera's courtney ceel keely reports, netanyahu warned the u.s. not to be fooled by rouhani. >> iran is committed to israel's destruction. >> israeli president benjamin netanyahu said the only diplomatic solution is for iran to dismantle its nuclear program. >> in fact it is israel's firm belief that if iran continues to advance its nuclear program during negotiations the sanctions should be strengthened. >> days after the historic phone call between obama and iranian president h5n1. hassan rouhani. he said he would speak out against the iranian charm offensive and the sweet talk of smiles. the last time rouhani was at the negotiating table was in 2005 as iran's chief negotiate poor. he worked with the governments to suspend the iranian nuclear enrichment program. prawn completed the isphaan nuclear factory. short amount of time. but the reception upon his return to teheran was marred by protesto

here the seller says "two grams of the best afghan brown heroin.satisfaction guaranteed" it promises. we bought three and a half grams of m.d.m.a., a key ingredient in ecstasy and one gram of opium. well, the envelopes have arrived. it took just three days and now we're going to find out what's inside. we're at a government-licensed laboratory and they're going to test the contents for us. john ramsey is a toxicologist who spent nearly three decades analyzing drugs for the police. >> so we've gotten a almost perfect match for crystal. >> reporter: next he tested the opium we ordered. >> so we've got one small package which could be opium. >> reporter: it, too, tested positive. are you surprised these things are so readily available on the internet? >> yes, i am. we know there's a ready market in legal highs but these are illegal compounds and i'm surprised that it's relatively straightforward to buy them over the internet. >> suarez: those transactions were among more than a million others. silk road brokered more than one billion dollars in sales

the fbi says this ad offered high quality heroin, all rock, conveniently vacuum sealed. a reporter for forbes magazine wrote in august about buying marijuana off the silk road website. >> it absolutely worked. it was very professional. sort of seamless e-commerce. >> reporter: he called himself dread pirate roberts after a character in a movie. and he's accused of offering money to have a person killed who was said to try to expose uh the site. >>> benjamin netanyahu is warning the new president of iran's is a wolf in sheep's clothing. with his surprisingingly candid talk about iran's nuclear program. tonight in new york he addressed the u.n. this week and netanyahu is showing he's keeping up the pressure in an interview with our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. >> everybody knows iran wants to destairway -- destroy israel. you don't want to be in a position where this radical regime that has wild ambitions but a nice spokesman gets away with building weapons. >> reporter: two leaders with radically different visions on the world stage. israel's prime

you hear so many stories you use crystal meth once, heroin once and you are addicted forever. why is that not the case? >> we have learned that the majority of people, 80, 90% of people that use drugs that you name do not become addicted. we think about why we believe that people become addicted to these drugs after one hit, it's mainly based on anecdotal hysteria. but when we critically think of it we think about the last three guys who occupied the white house, for example, president clinton, president bush, president obama, they used illegal drugs but didn't become addicted. >> didn't immediately become addicted. >> i'm saying 10% of these folks will become addicted, who use drugs, that's a fact. but we have overblown the extent to which these drugs are addicted. >> you did experiments, why don't you explain those for us. >> we did a number of experiments but those -- >> where you offered a little bit of money. >> one of the things i believed when i started doing this research was that one hit of cocaine perhaps for a crack cocaine addict, had them going off on a bing e, yo

he said it wasn't proheroin, but it was about heroin.t level of frankness was unheard of >> he was married into the art world, working with andy warhol. >> velvet underground's first album was produced by andy warhol. he designed the art. they were mixed up in the warhol theme. >> he had a flourishing career after leaving velvet underground. >> he did. he never stopped making music or changing. he had commercial success with "transformer", produced by david bowie and had the hit "walk on the wild side." he made great music, bad music. he kept going and changing. he made a record with mettalica, a move no one saw coming. he was unpredictable. he was a joy when he wasn't doing his greatest work. >> he had issues with alcohol and drug abuse. >> we mentioned, "heroin", the song, he did drug use and drank. he changed in the "80, he mellowed out, and more reemently -- recently, it was not enough to stave off a liver transplant. >> what do you think will be his lasting memory? >> there's so much good music, you know. i am a passionate velvet un

"the test" help this family in heroin hell?e next step is death. >> we'll turn you in for dealing we will do whatever it takes to get you better. >> that is tomorrow on "the test" [applause] >> kirk: welme back to the "the test". before the break we learned that fallon is in fact pregnant. and your sperm still working strong working overtime. we're about to find out if you are the father of jabari. and what if he is not? >> ain't no possibility. he is the father. >> ok. >> kirk: this is the only man that you sleep with? >> the only man i've been sleeping with for seven years. >> kirk: she must love you. are you aware of that? >> i know she love me. >> kirk: do you love her? >> yeah. she is the mother of my child of course i love her >> kirk: do you still have feelings for her? >> i don't want to be with her or nothing like that >> kirk: what do you think? do you think he still sneaks over there? >> no, i know he texts her and calls her. >> kirk: we will find out in a minute. the dna results show that jimmy you are the father of

he used the silk road as a black market bazaar, to sell everything from heroin to pot. all of the transactions were paid with bitcoins, an electronic currency designed to be anonymous of cash. >> this guy was able to hide what he was doing and make it hard for the authorities to find him. and bitcoin allows you to hide what you're doing. unlike a credit card, it's untraceable. >> the fbi says he ran silk road from an apartment on hickory street and from an internet cafe not far from his home. the department of justice seized the site as well as up to $4 million in bit coins. >>> a san francisco man accused of killing a college student on a muni train pleaded not guilty. the plea shows him carrying out that deadly shooting. prosecutors say the alleged gun gunman was determined to kill someone that night. and he was out hunting for victims. he pointed a gun near university but didn't open fire. he also whipped a weapon at patrons inside a restaurant. >>> the man who was caught running naked through a b.a.r.t. station might be released from jail. his attorney will ask a ju

about a third of the price of heroin. it is relatively easy to make.are paint thinner and gasoline. >> one of the issues, it is more addictive than morphine. it is almost ten time more potent. >> according to the hospital in illinois, the patients said they thought they were buying heroin. >> i think this is the tip of the iceberg. i think it will get a lot worse before it gets better. if it stays on the market long enough, you will have people that are desperate addicts that can't support their own heroin drug but they can utilize this druk. they will get the same drug for a third of the price. >> the hope is that these images are preventive enough from using the drug. cnn, chicago. >> horrible. >>> still to come, a shocking story of rabbis. and the post office set to destroy a series of unsafe stamps. man: [ laughs ] those look like baby steps now. but they were some pretty good moves. and the best move of all? having the right partner at my side. it's so much better that way. [ male announcer ] have the right partner at your side. consider an aarp m

heroin and cocaine along with guns were available on an online marketplace known as the silk road. 29-year-old ross ulbricht is behind the billion dollar operation. >> silk road was set up to be completely anonymous. >> here in maryland ulbricht is

and she is a heroine. ted cruz filibustered on the floor of the senate against obamacare and he is a bomb. >> not to us he isn't. [applause] absolutely. and what is -- and what did the senator filibuster about? her cause on the floor of the legislature of texas was to insist that in every and any month of the pregnancy that the women of texas have the right to destroy unborn children heard there are a lot of people that consider themselves pro-life and they will say in the first trimester i can understand maybe the baby isn't really viable or whatever. there are some splits about that. you ask the american people if they think you can be allowed to have an abortion in the seventh or eighth month of pregnancy and they will look at you in horror. that is what the senator wanted to guarantee would be the law in texas. not only that, she wanted to make sure those abortions in the late months of pregnancy to place in dirty abortion clinics that did not have to follow normal health standards. this woman, i am to

-- heroin for the first time.new what he was doing. >> you mentioned you were in your father's office. you were one of the first people i had heard of who got emancipated at 15. >> same guy. that guy got me my lawyer. >> the guy who was one of the guys who -- >> the guy. the guy who was my assistant, worked for my dad, he was -- >> did your father know anything about this? >> he said he didn't. >> do you think your father knew? >> i don't think so. i mean, i don't really like have a tremendous amount of like respect for my father because we don't see eye to eye and i think he took advantage and manipulated me. he definitely didn't know about that activity. >> what about your mom, there's got to be something wrong in denmark -- >> i left my mom to be with my dad. my mom was very abusive because she was mentally unstable. by dadas more stable and manipulative and cunning and nted to use my money. you had the joker's wild on one side and there was no safe place to go. but at least with my father, i felt i'm not going

-- hooked him on heroin and you see he doesn't want to do it. but pure sadism is not something walt -- oddly enough, with all the evil things he did he was not purely sadistic very often. at that time that was the most sadistic, i think, telling jesse that he watched. >> stephen: why-- again, spoiler alert. why kill walt off at the end? i mean, why not keep him going at least in "the walking dead"? (laughter) you know, just move him over to the next project. (laughter) he'll get even smarter from eating all those brains! (laughter) >> that is a good thought. >> stephen: why did you decide he had to go? >> it seemed like the implicit promise in the show from the first episode. the first episode he is told he has two years to live thereabouts. and it seems like we should -- we should adhere to our promise we impolicedly made the audience -- maybe not implicitly, explicitly. >> stephen: he's got cancer at the beginning. >> yeah, yeah. >> stephen: does he become a cancer? (laughter) >> i think he actually does. i think that's an excellent point. >>

sometimes we get lucky and find something. >> when you do it through mail, you have to get heroin onet of paper and you smash it down so it's smooth. you put another sheet on top of it, and seal it all the way around. >> most likely heroin, it was recovered from the mailroom in a greeting card. >> the greeting card was peeled back, the narcotics were pressed between two pieces of wax paper. they laid it in there and sealed it. >> also stamps. if it's someone that just wants to get high for the day, instead of licking the stamp, you can wet it with acid. >> this guy had so much talent for tactics and strategy and going around the authorities and dealing with all the different other inmates. i mean, here's a guy carrying one of the most precious commodities to inmates in prison which is drugs. he survives for years. this is what gets he about some of these guys, they're ingenious survivors about. >>> coming up on "lockup raw." >> i'm a critic of the blacks. >> whites are the minority in here. >> one prison's minority race seeks an idsty. vietnam in 1972. [ all ] fort benning, georgia i

. >> are you using heroin everyday? >> yes. i've been through a lot and never got help for it. >> can "the test" help this family in heroin hell? >> we'll turn you in for dealin we'll do whatever it takes to get you better. >> that is monday on "the test." [applaus >> kirk: welcome back to "the test." up next sean wants to know if his wife nicole has another man. he is clawing mad after discovering scratch marks on his lady's back and he told her no more nooky until she takes a lie detector test. >> my wife come home smelling like a man with scratches on her back. and she is tling me she ain't cheating. she is cheating 100%. >> my back was itchy but i never cheated >> kirk: let's welcome sean first and hear what he has to say about the evidence that has him convinced nicole is cheating. [applause] so scratches on her back? >> yes, not only that she came home smelling like a man twice. and i -- >> kirk: what does a man smell like? i do not smell. what does a man smell like. >> you know, i box and wrestle and she smell like a man