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Caught in a vicious cycle he can't seem to put an end to. >> i want to be able to stop permanently, you know. i was clean for like five months in denver until i came out here. when i go back to denver, i plan to like stay away from it again. >> one thing he can control is his association with al. >> what's up? >> their relationship, like so many on the boulevard, has quickly disintegrated. >> he wants to do heroin today and if he's been doing that, he's usually doing it with someone else because i don't want to contribute to that anymore. i mean he chooses me as a role model he might become li...

Again and now i just do whatever. >> anybody going to eat this? >> 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 day, oh, i want to try it so she [ bleep ] tried it once. he said i'm...

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...

These people up? these people aren't prostituting to themselves. these people are prostituting to the husbands and the fathers of this country. >> it's been just a few days since tom's near fatal overdose and though he considers the episode itself no big deal, he's tired of the general path he's treading. >> i grew up in a good family, but i think it's just dumb choices that i made that i regret making. >> he stops in at the los angeles youth network, a hollywood agency which has seen more than 600 kids like tom each year since it opened in 1986. a hot meal at layn is a daily part of tom's rou...

>> scott's working nights as a caregiver while studying for a psychology degree. tom has taken a job as a satellite tv technician. >> i thought going from a small town to a bigger town would help find acceptance and understanding of our family, but we haven't really found that much acceptance here. >> no hitting in the head, gregory. >> i was just getting you off of me. >> do you think it's more difficult for a family like yours to leave house and fit into a new place? >> oh, yeah. i mean, most of our neighbors think scott and i are brothers. absolutely 110%, and neither of us have set them st...