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>> i want to make a really important point. these are fda-approved doctor-prescribed pills. this is heroin. they both virtually have the same effect on the brain. the most typical course that someone starts with pills like this, they get cut off. they turn to heroin, which is an illegal drug but works fast. it gets you high and it is very, very cheap. we now know that 80% of heroin users started off with pills like these. >> the question always arises with these sorts of programs, does it enable people to keep doing heroin? >> no. >> they think i'm not going to be criminalized. i've got a safe...

That prescription for vicodin when you hurt your ankle before you were taking heroin? >> 18 months. >> 18 months. >> give or talk a month or two. less than two years. >> i want to make a really important point. these are fda-approved doctor-prescribed pills. this is heroin. they both virtually have the same effect on the brain. the most typical course that someone starts with pills like this, they get cut off. they turn to heroin, which is an illegal drug but works fast. it gets you high and it is very, very cheap. we now know that 80% of heroin users started off with pills like these. >> the ...

Rehabilitation center opened in 1995. it was the first of its kind inside a corrections facility in the state of new jersey. >> inspection for lockers. >> though nearing retirement officer lopez has been a fixture in the center for the past eight years supervising the hundreds of men who pass through it. >> i don't want no mice in here. i don't like mice. i have to live in here too. i could have been a damn good drug dealer. i could have been a damn good drug user. but for some reason, i chose the right road. >> recently, the center has seen heroin make a comeback as the drug of choice among m...

>> i'm not going to lie. a tear came to my eye. i kind of got choked up a little bit. because she figured out the same way i figured it was me. we're on the same wavelength. i don't know who would have picked up on that kind of thing, but we did. >> coming up -- >> you'll see that most heroin users are really close to their moms. >> an insight into a unique aspect of bergen county's heroin problem. >> that's why i call it a mama's boy drug. >> one inmate in the rehab center thrives while another is forced to drop out. >> he's a guy i can't have back here. to me, what he did was that serious. u...

Users are really close to their moms. so that's why i call it mama's boy drug. they'll actually give the money to the son and you'll hear the comment, i'd much rather give him the money to buy heroin so he don't have to go on the streets and steal and rob for it. sometimes i've heard cases in here where the mother actually drives them to the spot where they pick up their heroin. that's why it's a mama's boy drug for me. >> at 22 years old michael still have boyish looks but said he his mother didn't pay for his heroin and said she didn't realize he was shooting. >> hit the same spot about a hu...