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>> you know, i was just a really happy go lucky kid, you know, outgoing, had a lot of friends, played a lot of sports, was really active. >> raised in rural michigan, dana personified the all-american girl. studious and athletic, dana was not just good, she was exceptional. >> i was always a bright child, very athletic. anything i picked up i excelled at quickly. >> looking back now, dana says the punishing grind of the pressure to succeed led her to abuse alcohol. >> you train rigorously. you're playing sports seven days, six days a week, you know, and that's hours long practices and tourname...

>> especially -- especially heroin. it changes your brain. when you don't have it, you feel like you're dying almost. your body tricks itself. it's like you have to have it or you're not going to live anymore. like you're dying. >> unusually articulate, educated, and self-aware, officers are surprised to learn dana's downward spiral from honor student to addict to prostitute began with a sports injury. >> i had a really bad rotator cuff and i was at the point where i could keep playing but i was like basically putting a bandage over it with taking like painkillers that were prescribed to me an...

Chose to stay close to home. >> by the time i got to college, i was just like, i just want to hang out and have fun with my friends. it felt like a job almost. the enjoyment was gone. the fun in it was gone. it was so serious. at that point, it's all about paying for your school. >> after a shoulder injury and her scholarship on the line, dana started self-medicating to play through the pain. >> my body started to hurt, my knees were hurting, my back was hurting. i'd start taking ibuprofen all the time and that sort of escalated into vicodin and stuff like that. >> after a year of prescription...

Good deal. good deal. >> the woman selling herself is a 20-something college student we'll call dana. upon arrest, she tries in vain to thwart investigators from looking inside her car by hiding her keys in her pants. >> where are the keys? >>. >> i didn't see her throw them. >> the through the conversation with her, she concealed the keys from us and concealed her phone which made us believe that there's something in the vehicle that she doesn't want us to see. >> so what's your deal? what's going on? what are your concerns? talk to me. >> i have a drug problem. >> so you've got a little bit ...

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