When the Dallas tactical team entered
this Pleasant Grove home, they were not
looking for cocaine, they were after
heroin. It's a raid and a drug
that are more and more common in Dallas
these days.
The way this drug agent tells it, heroin
is back in a big way.
We're starting to see everybody use
it's it's No.
One certain race.
It's a lot of white
people, a lot of Latinos.
Blacks know certain
particular area of town.
The whole area of Dallas is
being affected.
Now, investigators say heroin users
are injecting the drug in Dallas, smoking
it in Los Angeles and using it with
cocaine in cities across America.
And the pushers are selling it because of
enormous profits.
Take a look.
A kilo of cocaine sells for 16
to twenty two thousand dollars.
A kilo of heroin sells for ninety
to one hundred and twenty thousand
dollars. Drug agents say heroin
dealers make fifty thousand dollars
profit for every ounce they sell.
And whenever there is profit, there are
buyers willing to buy.
A user that pays 30 dollars for his
first fix can end up with a fifteen
hundred dollar a day cocaine
heroin habit.
You have to steal or be a millionaire
to pay for the habit.
You might as well get that in your head
that once you start using it, it
isn't long before you're gone.
You're either going to have to prostitute,
steal, rob
or be fabulously wealthy
and very few of them are going to be like
that.
For those who are convinced heroin is a
high too good to pass up, this drug
agent has a message. You know, I've never
seen anybody, whether they use it or sell
it, it's happy.
They're always unhappy with a millionaire
dealer or kid that's a junkie
or an old junkie, whatever.
We're unhappy. We've got to get that
across to the kids.
Somebody does that.
It's a losing deal.