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>> in the last few weeks, tom and lori have taken a new kid under their wing, 17-year-old al from brooklyn, new york. >> when i came here to hollywood, like, i was on the street and i didn't know [ bleep ] about hollywood. tom showed me everything. showed me squats, showed me who to trust, who not to. >> and whether intentional or not, tom also introduced al to heroin, a drug al had never tried before he came to hollywood just two weeks ago. >> he said to me one, oh, i want to try it so he [ bleep ] trying it once. he said i'm just going to do it once. >> is that what you said? >> he did it on...

Sunday may be a day of rest for some, but the boulevard is alive with its usual buzz. the street performers and the walking billboards, the shopkeepers and the ticket takers, the newcomers and the old timers, they are all here. >> how are you doing today? >> and in front of the mcdonald's on the corner of hollywood and highland, the kids have taken up their usual spots. brittany and jason are here, ready for business. and so is tom, spanging in his own haphazard way. and though he's still in hollywood, tom has split with al, just as he vowed, and is now squatting with a different group of frie...

Really pisses me off that i'm stupid enough to go back into it. but at the same time it's too tempting while i'm out here. >> black tar heroin flows so abundantly across the border from mexico, it seems impossible for this 21-year-old from denver, known as junkie tom, to avoid. >> i had heard the consequences but i didn't believe that anything was that bad. i thought that i would be able to quit any time i want because i thought human will is the strongest thing there is, but i learned a lot about my will. i thought my will was a lot stronger than it is now. >> since his arrival in hollywood f...

>> and 21-year-old allison knows how bad it can get. >> sometimes you've got to do [ bleep ] you don't want to do to survive. you don't like it but you got to do it anyway. >> tom, a drifter from denver, came here by chance. >> some crackhead sold me his bus ticket to l.a. for 5 bucks. >> 17-year-old al isn't innocent to these streets. >> i never did heroin or speed until i came here. >> these are the faces of america's invisible generation. >> i've been running this since i was 11. everyone knows me as spider. it's my tatoo. >> theirs is a hollywood few ever experience. >> can you guys spare ...

Months in denver until i came out here. really pisses me off that i'm stupid enough to go back into it. but at the same time it's too tempting while i'm out here. >> black tar heroin flows so abundantly across the border from mexico, it seems impossible for this 21-year-old from denver, known as junkie tom, to avoid. >> i had heard the consequences but i didn't believe that anything was that bad. i thought that i would be able to quit any time i want because i thought human will is the strongest thing there is, but i learned a lot about my will. i thought my will was a lot stronger than it is ...