On tonight's ABC news 20/20 episode, David Muir reports on the epidemic sweeping the country by storm: heroin and opiate addiction. Heroin overdoses are happening everyday to people of all ages and race. Drugs discriminate against no one. One man could not even wait to get home before shooting up heroin in his car in New Hampshire. 129 people in America die everyday in the United States from overdoses, most from prescription pain pills and opiates. Families everywhere are struggling with their … [Read more...] about Breaking Point: Heroin In America
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LIFE WITH A DRUG ADDICT: GETTING OUT ALIVE – part one
I fell hard when I met Keith. The more I got to know him, the more I realized he was everything I had ever wanted in a man. He was up front about his past: he was a heroin addict at the age of 13, living on the streets and running drugs for the motorcycle gangs in his hometown. His whole life had been about drugs and motorcycles. Some of the stories he told about the extra-curricular activities he participated in would make my stomach churn. At eighteen, he was arrested and the judge gave him … [Read more...] about LIFE WITH A DRUG ADDICT: GETTING OUT ALIVE – part one