60 Minutes
Heroin in the Heartland | Smart Guns | The Slave Ship
Season 48, Episode 6 · Aired 2015-11-01
Synopsis
Federal and local authorities all over the country say it's the biggest drug epidemic today. Not methamphetamines or cocaine, but heroin. You might think of heroin as primarily an inner-city problem. But dealers, connected to Mexican drug cartels, are making huge profits by expanding to new, lucrative markets: suburbs all across the country. It's basic economics. The dealers are going where the money is and they're cultivating a new set of consumers: high school students, college athletes, teachers and professionals. Heroin is showing up everywhere -- in places like Columbus, Ohio . The area has long been viewed as so typically Middle American that, for years, many companies have gone there to test new products. We went to the Columbus suburbs to see how heroin is taking hold in the heartland.
In the series
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Key cast
- Mike Wallace as Correspondent
- Morley Safer as Correspondent
- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
Also in season 48
- S48E01 Vladimir Putin | Donald Trump | The Greatest Escape
- S48E02 Hands off the Wheel | Patrick Kennedy | The Hidden Holocaust
- S48E03 President Obama | 30 Years on Death Row
- S48E04 Seeking Asylum | Make-A-Wish | Revis Island
- S48E05 Vice President Biden | The New Burma | Inside the Air War
- S48E07 Into Dangerous Hands | The Collider | Hamilton