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Exhibit 3. How difficult is it to buy heroin?
A graphic illustrating the difficulty undercover police and users have in buying heroin in specific Pulse Check sites. The graphic places Sites on a scale of 0 to 10, 0 being not difficult at all and 10 being extremely difficult.
Law enforcement respondents in Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia (Wholesale), St. Louis, Washington, DC said that it was not difficult at all (rank of 0) for undercover police to buy heroin. Boston, Chicago and Miami were ranked as a 1. Detroit, El Paso and Memphis were ranked as a 2. Baltimore, Colombia, SC, Honolulu and Seattle were ranked as a 4. Portland, ME was ranked as 6. New Orleans as a 7. Billings and Philadelphia (Retail) as a 9 and Sioux Falls as a 10. Epidemiologic/ethnographic respondents in Baltimore, New Orleans, New York and Washington, DC. reported that it was not difficult at all (rank of 0) for users to buy heroin. Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle were ranked as a 1. Denver, El Paso, Los Angeles and Miami as a 2. Boston, Memphis Portland, ME, and St. Louis as a 3. Detroit and Honolulu as a 5. Columbia, SC as a 7; Sioux Falls as an 8; and Billings as a 10.



