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Vermont Drug Alcohol Addiction Recovery and Treatment Programs and Centers
In Vermont, domestic and imported marijuana is the most widely accessible drug. Further, high-purity grade heroin is accessible throughout Vermont. Cocaine is also a substantial issue throughout Vermont, especially in urban regions. Diverted pharmaceuticals, mainly OxyContin, are a substantial issue in Vermont. Law enforcement officials cite limited accessibility of methamphetamine. Vermont’s two interstate highways—I-89 and I-91—end at the American/Canadian border, allowing drug smugglers easy access to metropolitan regions in Canada and America.
Cocaine is easily accessible throughout Vermont and is commonly abused by illegal drug users. The drug is accessible in all amounts from fractional ounces to kilogram amounts. Cocaine smugglers in Vermont, most often Caucasians, attain the drug from source regions in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and the Southwestern U.S. The cocaine is transported into Vermont via the use of passenger vehicles. Thereafter, it is regularly distributed in bars. Crack cocaine regularly is accessible in Vermont, especially in the regions of Burlington, Rutland and Barre. The price is usually two to three times the price of cocaine attained in source regions. African-American offenders who attain the drug in New York and Massachusetts are mainly responsible for distributing crack.
There is accessibility of heroin in Vermont in street/user level amounts. A general heroin distributor in Vermont is a heroin user who sells the drug with the goal of supporting his/her heroin addiction. Individuals who go to source areas in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York are responsible for obtaining the heroin. The most frequent manner of transport of heroin between Vermont and source regions is the utilization of automobiles.
Methamphetamine is not frequently accessible throughout Vermont. Notably, three clandestine meth labs were apprehended, specifically, one in October 2007, September 2005 and another in June 2004. Before the apprehension in 2004, the final apprehension of a clandestine meth lab in Vermont happened in 1990. No clandestine meth labs were apprehended in 2008.
Ecstasy is intermittently accessible in Vermont. Up until June 2001, Ecstasy possession was not considered a crime under Vermont state laws. There have not been any reports of widespread accessibility of other club drug, including GHB and ketamine. But, in Burlington, there have been intermittent reports of the accessibility of LSD, LSA, PCP and psilocybin mushrooms. Ecstasy regularly transits the American/Canadian border destined for other American states. In November 2008, 200,000 dosage units of Ecstasy were apprehended in Highgate Springs, VT, making it the biggest land border apprehension of the drug in Vermont.
Marijuana is easily accessible in all regions of Vermont, and it is the drug of choice for illegal drug users. Marijuana is transited into Vermont from Southwest America via the utilization of automobiles, campers, and tractor-trailers. Another substantial source area for marijuana in Vermont is Canada. Canadian-based drug smuggling organizations traffic high quality hydroponically produced marijuana from Canada across the American/Canadian border for distribution in Vermont.
The marijuana is regularly transported in backpacks across remote regions between the ports of entry. Tractor-trailers carrying marijuana loads also ship the drug across the American/Canadian border. Along with marijuana being shipped to Vermont, marijuana is still being grown within Vermont.
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