Monthly Archives: March 2011

It's a drug fueling crime and killing kids, the addiction so powerful people will do anything to feed their habit.

"It's a long, dark, dark road."

At only 17 years old Amy is a recovering Heroin addict.

She says, "Eventually I was just like the gross junkies that I thought I would never be."

At 13-years-old the drinking and drugs started. The first time she did Oxycontin was at 16 on a school lunch break.

That led to heroin, a path an increasing number of Madison area teens are taking.

Amy says, "Just about anybody that I know from my old high school that is smoking weed and drinking, if you go up to them and ask if they have a connection to opiates they'd say yes and make a phone call."

One of the most dangerous opiates, heroin, has become a big problem for police.