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All the time. what are the primary demographics of this community? we are i want to say 85% white. so overall it s a pretty white pretty dominant white community, yes. in the years since the rolling meadows program began, two other large suburban areas have also opened their precinct doors offering treatment over incarceration. but the reality is both regions are affluent and mostly white. in the poverty-stricken inner city, trying to get treatment through the local police department isn t an option. and if users get caught with heroin, nine times out of ten they end up here in the cook county jail. anything in your pockets? nope. turn around. put your arms up, please. i m headed inside to the men s division. okay. thank you. thank you. one out of six male inmates in the cook county jail have used heroin in the days leading up to their arrest. ....
Is sell drugs all day long, you know. now, over here, see where the maroon car is, all them boys right there? yep. that s where they sell from, right there. and over the years, have you noticed a lot more heroin being sold on the streets? yeah, quite a lot. it s really flowing now. who do they primarily sell to? the majority is black but they don t spend the money the whites do. whites come from the suburbs and spend more. they come to spend 300, 400 at one time. so they look for the white customers more than they do any customer. we stop at a hot spot where a group of dealers are hanging out by a car. right away a man approaches them on his bike. is that a white guy? uh-huh. making a purchase? ....
You re the parent of a drug addict, you re lied to so frequently. but claire does seem really determined. i mean, she s ready to go. this is big. so how are you feeling? excited and scared but ready. this is claire s moment of truth. that s the doors you go in over there. i m ready to live my life. i m sick of being a slave to powder in a bag. i just i m ready to get this over with. let s go. let s go. while claire starts on the long road to possibly recovery, sam and mark work hard to stay off the streets and away from heroin. ....
Is? i m homeless, i ve lost most of my friends and family. i m hooked on heroin. i mean, what else could there be besides jail? i mean, i m lucky that i haven t gone to jail yet. who knows? in his three years of using, aidan has never been arrested. somehow, flying under the radar of officers like 50-year-old conrad. for the past decade, conrad has worked narcotics, focusing his efforts on chicago s toughest neighborhoods. i ve arrested a lot of users. i know where this goes. it leads to a horrific life, death, or the penitentiary. it s a life conrad never imaged for his only daughter, who like aidan, is also a heroin addict. i always thought she wouldn t do that. she would tell me that she ....
uh-huh. there he go right there. there he go. white people from outside the city are clearly playing a part in fueling this market, but the vast majority of drug-related arrests happen in places like this and affect generations of poor black families caught up in the trade. sam and mark are two brothers from the west side who ve been selling and using heroin and paying the price for it their whole lives. when was the first time you both got locked up. how old were you? i was 15. what did you get locked up for? possession. my first time i was 12 not 12 but 13. and what was it for? possession with attempt to deliver. how widespread has drug use been in your family? ....