A 20-YEAR TALKS ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCES WITH HEROIN

Jeff Copeland, 20, is one of the few who was able to use heroin
sparingly. When he started snorting, he could go a few days between
$10 bags. Drinking sustained his downer cravings. But three weeks
before his arrest last February, the Portage man started shooting
heroin. The high from the needle was much more intense and snared him
right away.

The night he was arrested, cops tested his dope and found it was
laced with the deadly pain killer fentanyl. Luckily, Copeland had
only shot half the bag.

"I could have died that night," he said.

Copeland escaped alive, but he's by no means safe. Life after jail,
with no car and no place to live, is a frightening unknown.

"I guess I'll have to save a lot of money, get an apartment. I can't
go back to the same life," he said. "I just come here or die."