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That the possibility of a relapse was always waiting there for him in the wings. >> i managed to stay clean for a year and a half. and i was on -- amazing my life changed. i was performing on broadway. couldn't believe it, you know. heroin addict and here i am performing on broadway. >> reporter: but it was another visit to the dentist, another prescription, this time for vicoden. and then -- >> i took it as prescribed. within four hours i was shooting hero heroin. >> four hours. >> yeah. on broadway. >> you were clean for a year and half, performing on broadway. you get an fda-approved medica...

Would have to go to abstinence. sit an effective treatment, it does save lives. >> before we go. i want to introduce you to a woman, a former heroin user named tracy. here's how she described the continued craving for heroin, even though she's been clean for 15 years. >> i think the cravings set in, something happens. there's a stimulus in your life and cravings set in and you feel like you're trapped and there's no other way, there's no other solution. when i think about heroin, it's that instant sense of relief. you may not think about the consequences in that moment, you think about having ...

See someone like phillip seymour hoffman dying from overdose. >> not at all. new york city has about 900 overdose deaths per year, three times as many homicides practically. >> in the city of new york alone? >> yes. >> and the kind of heroin people are using now, what should we know about it? >> it varies in its poe te s po is cut with very many different thinks. >> when somebody overdoses, is it because they misjudge the caliber of the potency or they got out of control when they were cooking and misjudged what they were taking? >> they misjudge the potency usually. >> it was the same kind of...

You know, it was reported that i think he was in a room with double locked doors or something, right? so people are looking for places where they can hide and do it, but they tend to be very unsan sar. >> that's where a lot of the medical problems happen, it's the administration of what goes in with the iv that causes -- >> what do you mean? >> opiates, we could finally relieve pain without hurting the patient. >> long-term, it doesn't really have -- >> the administration does, which is using, how you're using it. >> the other thing is, of course in new york, and pretty much everywhere, you're...

They're cutting it with sugars and things like that, and other ingredients. for example, xanax, even tylenols or things like that. they put quinine in it to cause an itchy, scratchy feeling, which there is a mythology is if you have an itchy, scratchy feeling from the haeroiheroin, good heroin. you know, the dealers were adding quinine to the heroin back then. >> in terms of treatment, what kind of treatment is it, is it effective? >> the treatment is controversial. you're a harm avoidance advocate. i would say if you or i or an airline pilot were addicted, you