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DRUG AVAILABILITY

Table 33. Average Price and Purity of Cocaine and Heroin in the United States, 1981–2000

Year	Cocaine				Heroin
	Purchases of 1 gram or less¹		Purchases of 10–100 pure grams²		Purchases of 0.1 gram or less¹		Purchases of 1–10 pure grams²
	Price per pure gram ($)	Purity (%)	Price per pure gram ($)	Purity (%)	Price per pure gram ($)	Purity (%)	Price per pure gram ($)	Purity (%)
1981	423	36	201	44	3,295	4	1,207	19
1982	433	36	184	46	3,285	5	1,159	32
1983	399	39	178	50	3,652	6	1,310	29
1984	378	44	153	55	3,485	8	1,293	36
1985	328	40	145	52	3,146	8	1,183	43
1986	315	51	127	64	3,502	9	1,153	37
1987	292	64	104	71	3,306	11	1,164	36
1988	238	75	80	73	3,123	17	960	40
1989	226	78	68	71	2,597	19	790	44
1990	267	69	77	59	2,924	16	878	32
1991	227	78	69	70	3,022	17	872	32
1992	224	76	65	74	2,863	21	687	39
1993	199	74	63	71	2,635	25	536	50
1994	187	73	57	74	2,721	25	433	47
1995	196	67	56	69	2,652	24	384	51
1996	175	72	51	70	2,424	23	378	45
1997	195	65	52	66	2,373	28	336	45
1998	183	68	47	68	2,087	25	331	49
1999	184	64	49	63	1,929	27	304	45
2000³	212	61	51	58	2,088	25	269	47

¹Quantities purchased at the "retail" level.
²Quantities purchased at the "dealer" level.
³2000 data are preliminary, based on first two quarters of data.

Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy, The Price of Illicit Drugs, 1981-2000 (in press).

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