DRUG

Reducing Drug Trafficking in the United States



Reducing Drug Trafficking in the United States

As time progresses, the battle on drugs continues. In order to be truly effective, we have to get to the root of the problem, where do these drugs come from? The illegal drug market in the United States is one of the most profitable markets in the World today. Within this profitable drug market there is a highly diversified variety of drugs coming into the United States. People are using all means available to smuggle this variety of drugs into our Country, some ways we would never even think of or dream possible. There are some highly educated groups of people within certain drug countermeasure organizations that constantly try to stay one step ahead of the smugglers that are smothering our country with the many illegal substances. These organizations have very important roles in fighting the war on drugs and often go above and beyond their duties. As you can see and probably already know, the war on drugs continues. But with the help from the many professionals we have attached to these awesome anti-drug organizations, we should be able to limit the many kinds of drugs that are illegally imported by several means of courier into our country today.

While the use of powder cocaine has stabilized, cocaine trafficking and abuse continue to threaten the health and safety of American Citizens. The U.S/Mexico border is the

primary point of entry for cocaine shipments being smuggled into the United States. (http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/intel/01020/). According to a recent interagency intelligence assessment, approximately 65 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States crosses the Southwest border, making cocaine very readily available in nearly all-major cities in the Unites States. (http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/intel/01020/). Traffickers operating from Mexico control wholesale cocaine distribution throughout the Western and Mid-western areas of the United States. The Role of Mexico base trafficking organizations is continually changing. Recent DEA reports suggest that some major international criminals in Colombia are separating themselves from day-to-day wholesale cocaine distribution in the United States by turning this task over to the organizations operating from Mexico which supply multi-ton quantities of cocaine to cities such as Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Diego in San Francisco. (http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/intel/01020/).

Another form of cocaine that is increasingly threatening the United States today, and that is a bit more severe than powdered cocaine is crack. Crack is the inexpensive, smokable form of cocaine. It continues to be distributed and used in many major cities. While crack use in the United States has declined over the past 10 years, the rate of crack use in recent years has leveled out, but at high levels. (http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/in-te l/01020/). While crack is usually cooked from the powder form of cocaine, it is sometimes shipped precooked in ways that are identical to the shipping procedures of cocaine. (http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/intel/01020/).

Heroine is another seriously addicting drug that is readily available in many U.S. cities and comes from a variety of places in the ...