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To heroin after a devastating sports injury. she said this was not the life she planned. >> i was a really happy go lucky kid, 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, she says the punishing physical grind and pressure to succeed led to her because alcohol. >> you're playing sports six or seven days a week. that...

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 drug. >> heroin addiction or opiate addiction is physical and a mental, you know, we consider it a brain addiction. >> 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...

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 mace see who says he counsels many high achieving young women and men who have sold themselves for drugs. >> heroin addiction or opiate addiction is a brain disease. >> a former addict, scott macy knows firsthand the devastating result of chasing the dragon. >> addiction, you know, just takes over any type of thought process, any type of -- if just takes over their life and it's just an obsession of the mind. >> dana says her $20 a day fix quickly escalated t...

Of heroin and three syringes. it's just enough of a fix to get the young woman through the night. >> what's so wrong with you that you're getting addicted to it? you don't appear to be a girl that needs to be on that stuff. >> i know. that's why i'm doing this because i'm addicted to it, you know. >> how long have you been out here? >> what do you mean? >> involved in prostitution. >> almost a year, since last january. >> and that's how you're feeding the addiction? she's been a prostitute for about a year and has an addiction problem with heroin and feeds that addiction through prostitution. ...

Withdraws. so even though the pimp is nowhere near, the physical need for the drug exceeds any need 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 have go up to cvs and say, please, may i have some heroin. >> once i saw the money that i made from it, that hushed any concern or any negative concerns that i had towards it because there was no other way that i could get that amount of drugs for, you know, doing anything else. >> you're aware of all of the parties going on? >> yeah, they have them all over. >> the night s...