CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield December 22, 2015 17:56:00
>> oxycontin went off like a bomb in new england. >> reporter: it started with oxy, ox is si contin, and what people don't realize is that these pills and heroin have at lot in common, and they are so k chemistry similar that the for an addict or abuser, there is no difference, so no surprise that 80% of heroin addicts started off using pills. how did that happen for you? >> well, somebody in the hotel had offered us heroin. i almost looked at it like a science experiment. that is how my brain justified going through the whole process of using heroin. i sniffed it. and it had an effect, but it...