City Incidence Who's Using in Users Method Other Emerging Who's Selling
Drugs Drugs
New York, NY stable traditional older none snorting; same street
P.D. user injecting sellers; no new
Special marketing apparent
Projects
Narcotics
Yakima, WA stable older users; all none injecting cocaine in Mexican nationals
P.D. ethnicities; lower speedball are source; street
income dealer could be
anyone
Maryland increasing traditional older moving into younger users cocaine in LSD seller matches
State Police users; some younger suburban snort; older speedball PCP demographics of
suburban and rural areas users inject community
users
Washington, stable adults none snorting; crack; PCP sold with cocaine
D.C. injecting cocaine LSD in "one plus one"
P.D. bags; southeast
Asian variety most
common
Dover, DE increasing black males, late more young snorting; cocaine young black and
P.D. teens and early 20s users some Hispanic sellers
injecting out of North
Philadelphia area;
Colombian sources
Los Angeles, stable young white users none injecting methamphetamin Mexican nationals
CA (20-30 years old) e
P.D.
Boston, MA increasing users in early 20s more white snorting; none used to be
P.D. and 30s; all users injecting available only in
nationalities 2 or 3
neighborhoods; now
found in 15-20
neighborhoods
Miami, FL stable traditional older, none injecting Rohypnol more white
P.D. low income users Colombian heroin
seized at airport
Table 2 (cont'd.)
Police - Heroin
City Purchase Amount Purity Other/Comments
New York, NY $10/bag 40% and higher
P.D.
Special
Projects
Narcotics
Yakima, WA $75-80/gram Methamphetamine price and quality is
P.D. dropping. Several users hospitalized
from poorly made doses.
Maryland $10/bag variable by whether Increased appearance of ketamine, LSD,
State Police $60-70/gram for it is to be injected PCP especially in rural areas
heroin prepared or inhaled
injecting
$150/gram for
heroin prepared
for snorting
Washington, $100,000-200,000/k 15-47% Reports of increased use among former
D.C. ilo crack users; Competition among
P.D. Nigerian and African-American
traffickers as Nigerians move to add
street level markets to their
inventory; evidence of Chinese and
Colombian cooperation.
Dover, DE $10/units sold in 90% pure, almost Local users go to Philadelphia for
P.D. wax paper with uncut larger, cheaper supplies. Sellers are
brand names selling both heroin and cocaine.
Miami, FL $150,000/kilo low; higher quality
P.D. (Colombian) seized in
$10, $20/bag transshipment to NY
Boston, MA $10/bag varies from 14% to use is highest he has ever seen in
P.D. 60% Boston - "doubled" in the last few
months
Los Angeles, CA $5-10/balloon 29% pure Sold in balloons; primarily Mexican
P.D. brown variety; increased
methamphetamine problem among young
white users.
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