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Mentally but also on my arms and everything about me physically. thats pretty drastic, you know. >> pretty big assets you got. >> you could have lost your arm. >> yeah. i know you guys were staring at my arms like this girls crazy. >> i didnt think you were crazy. honestly, im glad that mine -- >> dont look like this? >> yeah. >> i shot all my arms, you can see here. i was shooting over here straight into the -- i could go to the vein there. i was shooting right there for a while. i was shooting...

Michelle. then in july, 2005, about five months after dan had first reported michelle missing, he got a call from a detective who had only recently been assigned michelles case. a detective named ida lopez. >> i thought ida being a police officer was awfully small. shes a short lady. but other than that, it had seemed that she was on the up and up and that she was doing what she could in her power and the time that she had to go out and -- out to the streets. >> it would become a close working r...

Stay with her. dont let her get any further into her addiction and try to control it now before it gets out of hand like i did. >> like she said about the scars and stuff, i think about that all the time. when i go in the bathroom i look at my track marks. im like, wow. you know what i mean? were too pretty for that. we dont need to have all these marks and scars on our body. all the things i lost getting high. you know what i mean? its crazy. but you have to get clean for yourself. you cant do ...

I know they look horrible, but shes got to be thinking that could happen to her. i could save her from getting these scars. i have them. but the thing is, im alive, and i can still try to help her. stay with her. dont let her get any further into her addiction and try to control it now before it gets out of hand like i did. >> like she said about the scars and stuff, i think about that all the time. when i go in the bathroom i look at my track marks. im like, wow. you know what i mean? were too ...

Dont let her get any further into her addiction and try to control it now before it gets out of hand like i did. >> like she said about the scars and stuff, i think about that all the time. when i go in the bathroom i look at my track marks. im like, wow. you know what i mean? were too pretty for that. we dont need to have all these marks and scars on our body. all the things i lost getting high. you know what i mean? its crazy. but you have to get clean for yourself. you cant do it for other pe...

>> like she said about the scars and stuff, i think about that all the time. when i go in the bathroom i look at my track marks. im like, wow. you know what i mean? were too pretty for that. we dont need to have all these marks and scars on our body. all the things i lost getting high. you know what i mean? its crazy. but you have to get clean for yourself. you cant do it for other people. >> daniel espinoza has also paid a price for drug addiction. high when he was arrested for shoplifting, he ...

To the son and youll hear the comment, id much rather give him the money to buy heroin so he dont have to go on the streets and steal and rob for it. sometimes ive heard cases in here where the mother actually drives them to the spot where they pick up their heroin. thats why its a mamas boy drug for me. >> at 22 years old michael still have boyish looks but said he mother didnt pay for heroin and said she didnt realize he was regularly shooting the drug into his arms. >> hit the same spot about...

Into her addiction, try to control it now before it gets out of hand like i did. >> like she said, the scars and stuff, i think about that all the time when i go in the bathroom. i look at my track marks. im like, wow, you know what i mean? i just -- [ bleep ] we dont need to have all these marks and scars on our body and just like all the thing i lost, getting high, you know what i mean? this is crazy. you have to get clean for yourself. you cant do it for other people. >> daniel espinosa has a...

He forwarded my call. >> 19-year-old claire has five numbers on her phone she calls more than any others. these are her dealers who feed a daily heroin habit that has cost her just about everything. she lives in a mostly empty house and has pawned off all of her valuables to support her addiction. what kinds of things have you sold? >> all of my old cell phones, all of my game systems, ipod, pretty much everything worth value. i even sold my microwave. >> how do you pay your rent? >> well, i did...

Dont let her get any further into her addiction and try to control it now before it gets out of hand like i did. >> like she said about the scars and stuff, i think about that all the time. when i go in the bathroom i look at my track marks. im like, wow. you know what i mean? were too pretty for that. we dont need to have all these marks and scars on our body. all the things i lost getting high. you know what i mean? its crazy. but you have to get clean for yourself. you cant do it for other pe...