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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. your body tricks itself. it's like you have to have it, like you're dying. >> unusually articulate, educated, and self aware, officers are surprised to learn her 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, you know, keep playing but i was, ...

Of heroin and three syringes. it's just enough of a fix to get the young woman through the night. >> take the photo real quick, and we'll go from there. what's going on with you that you're getting so addicted to it? that's our main concern. you don't appear to be the girl that needs to be on that stuff. >> i know. that's why i'm doing this because i'm addicted to it and, you know -- >> how long have you been out here? >> what do you mean? >> involved in prostitution? >> almost a year. since last january. >> that's where you're feeding the addiction? she's been involved in prostitution for abo...

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 a cvs and say please may i 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 toward it, you know, because there was no other way that i could get that amount of drugs for, you know, doing anything else. >> you are aware of all the parties that are going on? >> yeah. t...

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. it's what we consider a brain disease. >> a former addict, scott macy knows firsthand the devastating impact of what is known as chasing the dragon. like dana, he lived a double life going back and forth from his white-collar job to detroit's east side to feed...

Ride. count the money. 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 those keys? you didn't throw them. you have them crotched or something? do you have the keys on you hidden? >> no. >> she's saying they're right up here. i didn't see her throw them. >> through the conversation with her, she concealed the keys from us and concealed her phone which made us believe there's something in the vehicle she doesn't wan...