60 Minutes

Season 48, Episode 6

Episode Title: Heroin In The Heartland, Smart Guns, The Slave Ship

Air Date: 2015-11-01

Overview:

The faces of heroin include the young, middle-to-upper class and suburban. What was once thought of as an inner-city problem is now a national epidemic. Smart-gun technology is not new, yet these guns are not mass-produced or sold in the U.S., partly due to fears they are a backdoor to greater gun control. Scott Pelley reports on the Smithsonian and the Slave Wrecks Project's journey to recover the first artifacts known to be preserved from a slave ship.