WAYNE: There's two ways that I've found to stay clean.

One is in the Maryland penitentiary on the fifth tier on deadbolt.

I can't use, and I can't get it, and nobody's bringing it to me.

And in Narcotics Anonymous.

CINDY: I was the kind of addict that you know, um, would jump in and out of cars and do things that I didn't want to do, just to get one more.

I was the addict that became homeless and shot dope using gutter water.

BUNNY: I tried crack because I wanted to stop heroin.

So basically, what I did was just switch seats on the Titanic.

LATONIA: At the time, that was when the crack wave came in the eighties and hit DC really hard.

It hit my whole family.

At the end of the road, I saw my face on the news as a missing person, JEN: But I was trafficked for those nine months, and I was stuck in a house with these other women and this guy that would beat the crap out of us and treat us worse than you would treat a dog.

TRAVIS: See, recovery has been good to me, though.

You know, the miracle isn't that I didn't shoot dope today.

The miracle is that not one time did I think it would be a good idea.

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