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>> heroin is one of the most addictive drugs known. its cheap. its easy to get. once a user is hooked, it can be for life. for the drug traffickers who deal in it, its a hugely profitable business. heroin use is a major problem in the northeastern u.s. and the federal drug enforcement agency is working hard to do something about it. we rode along with the dea in new jersey as undercover agents hit the streets in search of heroin. it didnt take long. >> the surveillance team is all set up. the un...

Purchasing this heroin thats high purity and either smoking it or snorting it. its become chic. >> its been called the perfect storm in all the wrong directions. very pure heroin thats easy to get for less than the price of a six-pack of beer is flooding the suburbs of the northeast and its no longer coming from southeast asia or afghanistan. mexico actually supplies most of the heroin west of the mississippi but the biggest supplier in the northeast is a country that made its reputation selling...

>> theres actually a brand? they make a brand out of this? >> its a label that they use, a marketing tool that this is my product. call of duty. so you know where to come back to. literally ten bucks a hit. >> $8 to $10. >> is it safe to say a lot of times when we read about these big drug busts, big, international drug busts, that they started at a street level? >> absolutely. this is where it starts. eventually itll bring us right back to colombia where the heroin probably came from. and thats...

>> heroin is one of the most addictive drugs known. its cheap. its easy to get. once a user is hooked, it can be for life. for the drug traffickers who deal in it, its a hugely profitable business. heroin use is a major problem in the northeastern u.s. and the federal drug enforcement agency is working hard to do something about it. we rode along with the dea in new jersey as undercover agents hit the streets in search of heroin. it didnt take long. >> the surveillance team is all set up. the un...

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Well, we just found the drugs. >> theres actually a brand? they make a brand out of this? >> its a label that they use, a marketing tool that this is my product. call of duty. so you know where to come back to. literally ten bucks a hit. >> $8 to $10. >> is it safe to say a lot of times when we read about these big drug busts, big, international drug busts, that they started at a street level? >> absolutely. this is where it starts. eventually itll bring us right back to colombia where the heroi...