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Michigan Drug Alcohol Addiction Recovery and Treatment Programs and Centers
In Michigan, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and MDMA are the main drugs of concern. Mexican DTOs, with direct connections to the Southwest Border and ties to major Colombian cocaine cartels, control the lion share of the cocaine distributed in the state of Michigan. Cocaine is resold to local distributors or transformed into crack cocaine for distribution on the street. The accessibility of South American heroin continues to be consistent in Michigan, with Mexican Brown heroin and Mexican black tar heroin still being accessible.
Southwest Asian heroin is easily accessible in the Detroit metropolitan region with New York being the main point of origin for the stream of Southwest Asian heroin. Importation of Canadian marijuana (also known as BC Bud) and MDMA, by Asian organized crime groups at Michigan’s Northern Border ports of entry is found with rising regularity. Detroit, Port Huron, and Sault Ste. Marie are rapidly becoming transshipment points to the rest of America. Cocaine from the Southwest Border is trafficked into the north Canada region at these same entry ports.
Cocaine and crack smuggling and abuse continue to stay at high levels within Michigan. Wholesale distribution units operating in Michigan’s major cities are directed by Mexican drug smuggling organizations that have direct connections to Colombian cartels. Local crack distribution units control inner city smuggling activities. These organizations are often involved in violence associated with their illegal activities. The purity levels for cocaine range from 40 percent to 90 percent and amounts can be bought in quantities ranging from grams to several kilograms.
In the Detroit metropolitan region and in the densely populated regions of Michigan, heroin is easily accessible. Significant amounts of heroin are imported from South America, Mexico and Africa. Southeast and Southwest Asian heroin is accessible in the metropolitan Detroit region, but South American heroin is the most plentiful. The large heroin smuggling organizations in Michigan are Hispanic; however, Nigerian drug smuggling organizations continue to ship substantial amounts of heroin into Michigan. The city of Detroit is a transshipment point to other Michigan and Ohio communities; it is also a consumption city. Western Michigan has encountered an increase in heroin abuse in the young middle-class suburban population. Suburban OxyContin abuse has shifted to heroin as local economies fail and heroin becomes more cost-effective. In 2008, Michigan authorities saw a considerable rise in lab, chemical or equipment meth apprehensions. Still, small “Mom and Pop” and “One Pot” operators are controlling meth manufacturing in small one to two ounce amounts for personal use and for local level distribution. The main producers of meth are Caucasian and Hispanic men.
The Northern Border in Detroit is as a transshipment area for multi-thousand dosage unit amounts of predatory and club drugs, including MDMA and GHB. Middle Eastern and Caucasian criminal groups, Asian groups, independent inner-city groups, and area college students ship MDMA mainly from Toronto, Canada into America. Thereafter, MDMA and other club drugs are shipped to other areas of America.
The Northern Border is increasingly used to ship Canadian indoor-grown marijuana, also known as B.C. Bud, into America at Michigan ports of entry. B.C. Bud has a greater THC content than domestically grown or Mexcian produced marijuana. Consequently, the demand for B.C. Bud is greatly growing in Michigan.
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