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Youre the parent of a drug addict, youre lied to so frequently. but claire does seem really determined. i mean, shes ready to go. this is big. so how are you feeling? >> excited and scared but ready. >> this is claires moment of truth. >> thats the doors you go in over there. im ready to live my life. im sick of being a slave to powder in a bag. i just -- im ready to get this over with. >> lets go. >> lets go. >> while claire starts on the long road to possibly recovery, sam and mark work hard t...

>> a lot of us may get incarcerated or locked up and aint got the money to bond out or bail out. they do. they will have a lawyer or something that can fight for them to get out of there and get them in a program. >> for now, sam and mark are clean, scraping by to support their family and doing their best to stay out of jail. >> i went and got a trade. im certified in buildings maintenance. we currently start our own self-employment. >> one more arrest, and they could be doing serious time. >> i...

>> uh-huh. there he go right there. there he go. >> white people from outside the city are clearly playing a part in fueling this market, but the vast majority of drug-related arrests happen in places like this and affect generations of poor black families caught up in the trade. sam and mark are two brothers from the west side whove been selling and using heroin and paying the price for it their whole lives. when was the first time you both got locked up. how old were you? >> i was 15. >> what ...

On the streets selling heroin as early as 14 years old. >> my mama had five kids so i thought i was helping, you know, making ends meet by paying bills and things like that. >> are you saying that you started to sell drugs to help your mom pay bills initially? >> yeah. yeah. but then doing that it became a lifestyle. >> selling and using went hand in hand. it led both sam and mark to jail numerous times. now that you have felonies on your record, how hard is it to become productive members of so...

>> as long as i can remember. i grew up around it, which is probably one of the reasons why i got involved in it in the first place. >> and me? same way. aint like it didnt exist when i was born and aint like it didnt exist when my mama was born. >> sam and mark tell me their mother overdosed three times, once right in front of them. and sam, just 13 years old, called 911. >> if i didnt think in the blink of a second, if i didnt pay attention, i wouldnt have been able to save my mother. she woul...

>> do the top. >> the hope is to keep their kids from being the next generation destroyed by this drug. >> i dont want my kids going through what i went through or experiencing the things that i experienced growing up in life. the years they needed me i wasnt there. the example im trying to set is plain as day. i cant say what tomorrow holds but definitely my plan is to not fail. thats the plan, not to fail. >> thank you, father god. we magnify you. as we sit down and eat -- >> sam and mark are ...

On his bike. is that a white guy? >> uh-huh. >> making a purchase? >> uh-huh. there he go right there. there he go. >> white people from outside the city are clearly playing a part in fueling this market, but the vast majority of drug-related arrests happen in places like this and affect generations of poor black families caught up in the trade. sam and mark are two brothers from the west side whove been selling and using heroin and paying the price for it their whole lives. when was the first t...

Wasnt there. the example im trying to set is plain as day. i dont know what tomorrow holds but definitely my plan is to not fail. thats the plan, not to fail. >> thank you, father god. we magnify you. as we sit down and eat -- >> sam and mark are determined to stay clean, but heroin relapse is all too common and nearly 80% of drug offenders are eventually reincarcerated. no matter who you are, black or white, selling or using, once heroin takes hold, its hard to break free. and chicago is strugg...

>> as long as i can remember. i grew up around it, which is probably one of the reasons why i got involved in it in the first place. >> and me? same way. aint like it didnt exist when i was born and aint like it didnt exist when my mama was born. >> sam and mark tell me their mother overdosed three times, once right in front of them. and sam, just 13 years old, called 911. >> if i didnt think in the blink of a second, if i didnt pay attention, i wouldnt have been able to save my mother. she woul...