Back from the brink of death: Shot saves lives of heroin users

January 29, 2015 at 11:06 p.m. UTC

ATLANTA — Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Mark Winne got exclusive video inside a drug house in the Bluff, southwest Atlanta's most notorious heroin highway. In the video, a woman seated in a chair overdosed on heroin. A group of people stood around her, slapping her, shaking her and trying to keep her alive.

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