I have made them a fortune from heroin here, and what do I get?

Ness has been sober and clean from heroin since 1985.

What income he has comes from heroin, extortion and other people's thieving.

He approached a man with an abscess in his arm from shooting heroin.

Over all, the therapy frees three of every four patients from heroin, giving them a chance at productive, stable lives.

They've run everything from heroin to human beings, I'm told, and now arms.

More than 80 percent of addicts who manage to withdraw from heroin eventually go back to it.

And even when an addict withdraws from heroin, a cocaine habit often remains.

While some might continue to abuse other drugs, their escape from heroin still would be a step forward.

In July 2007, deaths from heroin and cocaine were reported from the prison.