Ashley is embarrassed and exhausted
by Mike's drug habit
which he tries to hide from his daughter,
yet Mike appears very proud of his addiction
because this was a selfie video
he made just a few days ago,
take a look at this.
(groaning)
So I just did my last shot
of heroin.
Fortunately my wife was mad at me
'cause I needed to go get another fix again
and so I went
and she thought I was gettin' pills
but I was gettin' heroin.
Ashley says she doesn't know
what it will take to get through to Mike
but she says today is his last chance.
And my question is, what will it take
to get through to her?
How did it get this bad for Mike?
Take a look.
Mike's addiction has gotten so bad,
to the point where I feel like he's going to die.
My tolerance is so high
I'm gonna end up overdosing.
Mike injects prescription medication
and heroin and cocaine.
I enlisted in the Marines in 2010
during the second phase of boot camp
is when I fell and hurt my back.
Subsequent L5 fractures,
treated with a regimen of opioids
and muscle relaxers.
Because of the amount of drugs
that they were giving me,
I became extremely addicted.
I feel the rush from heroin
but it's nothin' like doin' Dilaudid.
I'm havin' to do three, four pills in one shot
multiple times a day.
So switchin' to the heroin,
I could've stretched it out
to about maybe a day or two,
but now it's only lastin' me for like, a day.
And when I wake up the next day with nothing
I'm a monster.
He fiends and he sees red.
(groaning)
Yesterday, I was pretty desperate for drugs.
I asked Ashley if she would give me the money
and she told me no so I went out
and sat behind the car so she couldn't leave.
I said, "I can go and break every window
in the house," and then she'd send the money.
Mike has stolen my iPad, TVs, computer,
multiple times, he's stolen money.
A few years back I robbed someone at gunpoint
in the middle of McDonald's drive through.
Mike has been arrested three times.
Jail definitely doesn't scare me.
I damn sure haven't learned my lesson.
What are you doin'?
Callin' my heroin dealer.
This isn't the life that I want to live.
(intense music)
So let me ask you, when was your last fix?
Yesterday, I actually left the hotel
and took the metro line down to Skid Row
so that I could score some heroin on Skid Row.
Right, what time?
4:30.
And, you just got enough for one?
To get me through,
through yesterday, last night
and then I haven't had anything today.
Okay, you gettin' jittery?
Not yet.
When are you gonna tell her the truth?
You have no intentions of stopping.
I do have intentions, I need to stop.
Come on.
You can wool her around and blow smoke at her
but you can't blow smoke at me.
You're stealin' from her,
when you steal from her
you're stealin' from your daughter.
Stealin' from my family.
And I watched this video you made.
So, this is fun and games, right?
It's not fun and games.
Well let's play the video.
(groaning)
So I just did my last shot
of heroin.
(sighing)
Fortunately,
my wife was mad at me
'cause I needed to go get another fix again
and so I went and she thought I was gettin' pills
but I was gettin' heroin.
I'm so disappointed.
But you say you don't want to know, right?
You said, you don't realize,
when he steals from you
you don't know about the street drugs,
where he goes when he leaves.
You didn't know
about the overdosing.
You say you don't really want to know.
It's not that I don't really want to know,
it's that he keeps it from me.
He will tell me that he is going to work
and he's gone for eight hours a day,
10 hours a day, comes back.
I do do a very good job of hiding it.
He does a very good job of hiding it.
On purpose.
Only if you don't want to see the truth, come on.
