City Incidence Who's Using in Users Method Other Drugs Emerging Who's Selling
Drugs
Bridgeport, increasing inner city youth; younger snorting; crack PCP varies in
CN some middle class (late teens injecting p-dope mescaline different areas
(Geter) suburban users and early of the city;
20s) some gang
involvement
San Antonio/ increasing traditional older more young injecting; adolescents
El Paso, TX user; new young users inhaling as working for
(Ramos) users nose drops Mexican mafia;
gangs
Los Angeles, increasing primarily male, none injecting cocaine in methamphetamine Mexican
CA (slightly) older users (over speedball Americans;
(Annon) 35 years old) sellers
primarily sell
heroin alone
New York, NY increasing traditional users; more young snorting; cocaine in LSD young males (in
(Goldsmith) some new young male users injecting speedball their 20s) who
male users are established
dealers;
multi-racial
street sellers
Atlanta, GA increasing over 35 year old more injecting; crack amphetamine older male
(Sterk-Elifon) males both African snorting snorting alcohol dealers sell
American and heroin only;
white; some young younger dealers
users sell both heroin
and cocaine
Denver, CO increasing older users (over more users injecting LSD Mexican
(Anderson) 30); some new under 21 almost methamphetamin nationals
younger users years old exclusively e
Miami, FL increasing older users; some some shifts injecting crack MDMA "get off" houses
(Page) younger users; all from cocaine alcohol appearing in
ethnicities injection to Rohypnol African-American
heroin use areas
Chicago, IL increasing traditional users new users injecting cocaine in gang-organized
(Weibel) and new younger are younger speedball entrepreneurs;
users (teens to some heroin
early 20s) sellers also
sell cocaine
Trenton/Newar increasing older users; young more young snorting; alcohol MDMA heroin sold
k, NJ inner city youth users injecting methamphetamin primarily alone
(French) e
New York, NY stable at traditional older some younger injecting; cocaine in PCP
(Galea) high levels users; some new users; more snorting speedball
younger users upper income
users
Austin, TX stable older users (over old users injecting Doriden Ritalin Mexican sellers
(Maxwell) 30 years old); switching Tylenol 4 MDMA who are part of
some increased from cocaine syndicate
among whites
Newark, DE increasing young users, white more young snorting; alcohol MDMA young sellers;
(Pazzaglini) middle class users injecting cocaine in LSD supplies coming
users; some speedball amphetamine from
African-Americans; Philadelphia,
also inner city New York,
white users Boston, Richmond
Table 1 (cont'd)
Ethnographers - Heroin
City Purchase Amount Purity Other/Comments
Bridgeport, CN $10/bag high Housing projects remain high traffic areas; brisk sales
(Geter) to suburban customers.
San Antonio/ $10/balloon Users are dropping heroin solutions into nasal passages
El Paso, TX from syringes in process called "shabanging"; very
(Ramos) popular among young, partying crowd; shooting galleries
have also appeared in Juarez in response to border
shutdown.
Los Angeles, CA $80/gram Black tar 70-80% pure;
(Annon) Mexican brown 40% pure
New York, NY $10/bag variable Continued bustling activity and steady market; AIDS has
(Goldsmith) influenced the reluctance to inject, but only delayed
that phase of use for most users.
Atlanta, GA $25-40/bag high
(Sterk-Elifon)
Denver, CO $40-50/½ gram variable; though Supplies from N.Y. arrive with original brand names and
(Anderson) supplies from N.Y. are packaging via Federal Express or courier; purity of
high purity these supplies are considerably higher than local black
tar variety and they are more likely used by white,
employed users.
Miami, FL $10/bag low in general with Speedballing may consist of injecting heroin and smoking
(Page) $100/gram some pockets of higher crack. Also sees "get off" houses where heroin is
purity injected and crack may be available.
Chicago, IL $10 and $20/bags high, though varies by Some young snorters who said they'd never inject are now
(Weibel) area starting to report considering the risk "to see what it
feels like."
Trenton/Newark, $15/bag high Wider variety of users; continuing to see young users;
NJ increased number of white suburban buyers coming into
(French) the city.
New York, NY $5, $10, $20/bag Some appearance of PCP (sold as "crazy eddie") at
(Galea) $10/unit
Austin, TX $14, Still primarily injection users of Mexican heroin; only
(Maxwell) 500-$20,000/kilo snorting among Yuppies who can access white heroin
(which is still rare in Texas)
Newark, DE $10/bag generally high, but Large number of white adolescents involved in heavy
(Pazzaglini) varies (daily) heroin use, both snorting and injecting. Also
finds these users drinking heavily when heroin is not
available.
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