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Afford prescription drugs. in the cold quiet of her jail cell, struggling without heroin and facing charges, dana realizes she has hit rock bottom. i had scholarship offers from, i mean, i can't even count how many universities. i mean, i could have basically played sports anywhere that i wanted to. [ laughs ] jamie. right. make a bad bundle joke, a buck goes in the jar. i guess that's just how the cookie bundles. now, you're gonna have two bundles of joy! i'm not pregnant. i'm gonna go. [ tapping, cash register dings ] there you go. [ buzzing ] bundle bee coming! it was worth it! saving you...

There is nothing more shocking than understanding that this young woman, who we will call dana, was a highly recruited college athlete just a few short years ago. at dana's request, we refrain from mentioning specifics. >> i had scholarship offers from i mean, i can't even count how many universities. i mean, i could have basically played sports anywhere that i wanted to. and that's why i'm doing this. i have a drug problem. >> okay. >> we met dana at what she now admits was the lowest part of her life, strung out on heroin and selling her body for cash. >> find the heroin? >> yep. >> dana was...

Heroin. >> you know, i tried heroin one time and that was it. it was a wrap. i don't even know how to describe it. you know, it felt like any pain, any hurt in my life, anything negative when i did it, it was just gone. >> these are kids that grow up in great households, stable households. >> dana's story isn't shocking to scott macy, who says he counsels many high-achieving young women and men who have sold themselves for drugs. >> heroin addiction or opiate addiction is a physical as well as a mental, you know, and it's what we consider a brain disease. >> a former addict, scott macy knows f...

You know, my habit, it grew so out of control. >> with a $300-a-day habit, it's a battle she's losing. >> heroin, especially, especially heroin, i mean, it just changes your brain, you know, how you think. i mean, when you don't have it, you feel like you're dying almost. like your body tricks itself. it's like you have to have it or else 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 ...

Enslave women. >> drugs cause physical addiction. your body goes through withdrawals. so even if the pimp is nowhere near them, the physical need for the drug overwhelms any urge to leave or to report that pimp, to go home, any of that, because they have this physical addiction. and it's not like they can go up to cvs and say, "may i please have some heroin?" >> once i saw, you know, how much money, the drugs i had made from it, it was, that hushed any concern or any negative feelings i had towards it, you know, because there was no other way that i could get that amount of drugs for, you know...