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Delaware Drug Alcohol Addiction Recovery and Treatment Programs and Centers
In Delaware, heroin, powder cocaine, crack cocaine, and marijuana are the four most accessible, popular, and shipped illicit drugs. Clandestinely manufactured drugs, such as methamphetamine and club drugs, such as Ecstasy are also easily accessible to users of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. While OxyContin seems to be less accessible, other diverted pharmaceutical drugs continue to be accessible to users in Delaware.
Wilmington is Delaware’s largest city. It is located on the Interstate 95 corridor, the East Coast’s most regularly traveled highway that runs from Boston, through New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, to Miami. Because of its location and closeness to Philadelphia and New York, Wilmington has become a lower-level source city that is available to smuggling organizations looking to move their activities from major cities, to distributors from within Delaware, and from areas surrounding southeastern Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Philadelphia’s street corner distribution networks are typically considered the major supply for drugs sold to Delaware’s users; however, intelligence cites that local distribution networks are also supplied by New York-based smuggling organizations.
Heroin smuggling and distribution are high priorities to the DEA Philadelphia Division’s top enforcement. Investigations show that smuggling organizations looking for new customers, higher profits, and less law enforcement, are moving from the inner city areas of Pennsylvania and New York into Delaware. This has caused a substantial concern to Delaware and local law enforcement, community, and treatment officials.
Delaware law enforcement officials are also concerned with the accessibility of different drugs to teenagers and young adults during the summertime at Rehoboth Beach. Recent investigations revealed that the abundance of visitors to Rehoboth Beach during this time of the year causes an increased accessibility of methamphetamine, Ecstasy, and GHB to individuals who attend nightclubs or rave parties there.
In Delaware, cocaine in powder and crack forms continue to be increasingly accessible and popular. Both types are accessible in different amounts to users located in the inner city areas of Wilmington and in smaller cities and towns across Delaware. Quantities of powder cocaine are also accessible to local distributors who “cook” the powder cocaine into crack. Due to its wide accessibility and relative manner of use (smoking), the popularity and use of crack cocaine remains on the rise in Delaware.
Philadelphia and New York City continue to be the main source areas of cocaine distributed in the state of Delaware. While some distributors still travel to Philadelphia to buy cocaine and crack cocaine, distributors also go to New York to buy large amounts of powder cocaine for distribution to local users or to convert and sell as crack. As with heroin, more recent reports reflect that traffickers and distributors from source areas are traveling into Wilmington to distribute large amounts of cocaine.
Heroin is accessible mainly in northern Delaware. This is because distributors move from source cities such as Philadelphia and New York to Wilmington to escape the attention of law enforcement, lure new clients, and sell to existing customers from surrounding areas, such as southeastern Pennsylvania and Maryland.
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