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Having been through it myself, going to a meeting of addicts. they had something to say to me, and i had something to say to them. >> there was a vulnerability to him and as cool as he was there was a vulnerability to him that he would -- he would expose. >> i'll tell you something really shameful about myself. the first time i shot up i looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. >> something was missing in me, whether it was a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw. i had a stable family in the suburbs and i had a lot of advantages and there was a dark genie inside me that...

Something to say to them. >> there was a vulnerability as cool as he was there is a vulnerability that he would expose. >> i'll tell you something really shameful about myself. the first time i shot up i looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. you know, something was missing in me whether a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw, i came up in a stable family, the suburbs. i had a lot of advantages. there was some dark genie inside me that i hesitate to call a disease that led me to dope. i didn't have anyone else who talked me out of what i was doing. an intervention wou...

Him and as cool as he was there was a vulnerability to him that he would -- he would expose. >> i'll tell you something really shameful about myself. the first time i shot up i looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. >> something was missing in me, whether it was a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw. i had a stable family in the suburbs and i had a lot of advantages and there was a dark genie inside me that i hesitate to call a disease that led me to dope. i didn't have anyone else who could have talked me out of what i was doing, but intervention wouldn't have worke...

That's where it all began for me. >> man: what are the odds you're going to own a house? what's the odds you're going to have a nice car? any car? a place to live, all that stuff? seems less and less likely all the time. contrast that with what happens when you stick a spike in your arm. and why wouldn't you? >> woman: so i had this picture in my head when i got the phone call that my daughter's father had been in the accident and i had just had a c-section and they come in with this needle to give me ativan i think. and all i really needed was a hug. i just needed someone to come up to me and...

Looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. you know, something was missing in me, whether it was a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw. that stable family in the suburbs, i had a lot of advantages. there was some dark jennie inside me that led me to dope, i didn't have anyone else who could have talked me out of what i was doing. intervention wouldn't have worked. i didn't have a child. i have a 7-year-old daughter now, who i never would have had, i never would have thought. i looked in the mirror, i saw somebody worth saving, or that i wanted to at least try real hard a...