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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. they have them all over. >> the ...

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

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, like, basically putting a bandage over it, taking...

She told our cameras this was not the life she had planned. >> 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 wasn't just good, she was exceptional. >> i was always a bright child, very athletic. anything i picked up i excelled at very quickly. >> looking back now, dana says the punishing physical grind and pressure to succeed as a star athlete led her to abuse alcohol. >> you train rigorously. you're playing sp...

It was a wrap. i don't know how to describe it. any pain, 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 men and women who have sold themselves for drugs. >> heroin addiction or opiate addiction is a physical as well as a mental -- 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 ...