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South Dakota Drug Alcohol Addiction Recovery and Treatment Programs and Centers
In South Dakota, methamphetamine use still affects all areas of the state. Consumption of and demand for meth is still growing over the last year. Meth has been brought to the public’s attention through a growing aware media, concerned media, and informed public officials from the domestic to national level. Public efforts are in progress by law enforcement, politicians, social service agencies and the media to teach the public about the perils of meth consumption and abuse. Further, marijuana is easily accessible in all regions of South Dakota. It remains the most abused of the illegal drugs.
Cocaine is easily accessible throughout South Dakota and has been growing in accessibility during the last couple of years. Kilogram amount cocaine transactions are infrequent in South Dakota. Still, intelligence showed that established groups had purchased kilogram amounts of HCl to Sioux Falls, which was then transformed into crack cocaine. Cocaine is attained from individuals or organizations in Chicago, Illinois; Denver, Colorado; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Sioux City, Iowa. An issue of concern is the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation situated in southwestern South Dakota. Even with the proliferation of meth in the region, cocaine continues to be the drug of choice in many regions on this reservation and is easily accessible.
Heroin is generally accessible strictly in personal use amounts in South Dakota.
Most of the meth accessible in the Sioux Falls region seems to be distributed by long-time Caucasian residents and Mexican drug smugglers that are trying to hide themselves from law enforcement detection within the region’s rising Hispanic communities. Hispanic immigrants are moving to cities within the area, looking for jobs in meat and poultry packing companies in rural communities in South Dakota. Mexican smugglers avoid being under heightened law enforcement radar by fusing with these rising Hispanic communities.
Mexican smugglers often use these meatpacking towns as transshipment centers and secondary markets for the distribution of drugs. In the past, amounts of meth have also reached Sioux Falls from the Minneapolis, Minnesota region. Meth is still a drug of choice in the Rapid City area and is growingly accessible. Meth smugglers in the Rapid City region are primarily supplied from sources in bigger cities, including Denver, Colorado, and southwestern America. Nearly all meth apprehended domestically is now "ice" meth, but purity levels often drop below 90 percent and generally range from 50 to 80 percent.
The accessibility of Ecstasy is small in South Dakota, but seems to be rising, as small quantities are detected with other apprehended drugs.
Marijuana is easily accessible in South Dakota. Multi-hundred pound amounts are shipped into South Dakota from the southwest border, Colorado, California, and Washington. Smaller amounts are also transported through express mail services or bought from Hispanic males in the Sioux City region and transported back to Sioux Falls. Marijuana of higher purity is produced in indoor grow operations in the Sioux Falls region, which generally have fewer than 100 plants. Larger indoor operations are encountered in residences every now and then but generally the amount is less than 100 plants.
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