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Rhode Island Drug Alcohol Addiction Recovery and Treatment Programs and Centers
In Rhode Island, cocaine is the main drug of choice. The purity levels of cocaine accessible in Rhode Island typically fall between 50 percent and 90 percent, depending on the amount bought. Cocaine smugglers in Rhode Island also service clients in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Throughout New England, smugglers use Rhode Island as a transshipment point.
Rhode Island has encountered a decline in the accessibility of cocaine, thereby making it more costly. In Providence, kilogram amounts of cocaine are sold for as high as $34,000. The cocaine is shipped from South America through Southwest Border states through commercial airlines and automobiles with enhanced concealed hydraulic compartments. Cocaine is also transported to New England from the Mexican border, concealed within transportations of legitimate goods being shipped by tractor-trailer. Columbian and Dominican smugglers are the main distributors of cocaine. Domestic suppliers who go to New York and return to distribute the product transport most of the cocaine purchased in Rhode Island.
Heroin is easily accessible in Rhode Island and can be bought in almost every town and city. Heroin apprehended in Rhode Island had purity levels ranging from 12 percent to 70 percent, depending on the amount. Couriers ship pure, pre-packaged heroin to Providence by train, airplane, body carriers and land vehicles. When the heroin reaches its Rhode Island destination, local smuggling groups will adulterate and re-package it to sell on a retail level.
Colombian and Puerto Rican smugglers are still dominating the heroin smuggling market in Rhode Island. The Dominican smugglers network includes different ethnic groups and they dominate heroin’s street level distribution. The Providence RO frequently encounters heroin packaged in cut off plastic bags in different quantities. Domestic police departments are still seeing heroin packaged in glassine packets with around 1/10th of a gram of heroin. The ½ gram bags are priced at $45. Kilogram amounts of heroin are accessible in Rhode Island.
Methamphetamine is hardly encountered in Rhode Island. The meth that is found in Rhode Island is crystal meth and is generally detected in the gay communities. Rhode Island is still seeing club drugs, including Ecstasy and GHB. Ecstasy is encountered in different nightclubs situated in Providence, and at raves throughout Rhode Island. Most of the Ecstasy encountered in Rhode Island derives from Canada, New York, and Boston, MA.
The trend in Rhode Island indicates a widespread and easily accessible market of fairly huge quantities of marijuana. Costs of marijuana will vary seasonally as the supply shifts up and down. The marijuana accessible in Rhode Island is mainly Mexican, but it is supplemented by small quantities of other foreign based and local marijuana. Most of the marijuana is imported from the southwest border through parcel carriers and couriers on commercial airlines. Hydroponically grown marijuana is also accessible in Rhode Island. Most of the “hydro” marijuana is shipped into Rhode Island through tractor-trailers and is sold for $3500 to $5000 per pound. Canada is the main supply source for this kind of marijuana in Rhode Island.
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