NCJ Number
145561
Date Published
1993
Length
66 pages
Annotation
This report presents January-March 1993 statistics from the Drug Enforcement Administration's Domestic Monitor Program (DMP), which is a retail-level heroin purchase program designed to provide Federal, State, and local authorities with intelligence on heroin purity, price, availability, adulterants, diluents, and geographic source areas (Signature analysis).
Abstract
The DMP collected samples in 20 metropolitan areas. During the quarter, 180 exhibits were purchased, 168 of which contained heroin. Of these 168 exhibits, 5 were not used because they were classified as "outliers," which are those samples with a purity of less than 0.5 percent or a price greater than $16.00 per milligram pure. The purity of the exhibits averaged 35.2 percent, with a low of 1.7 percent in Atlanta and a high of 98.3 percent in Boston. Twenty-six exhibits originated in Southeast Asia, with an average purity of 34.2 percent. Twenty-five exhibits originated in Southwest Asia, with an average purity of 56.8 percent. Fifty exhibits came from Mexico, with an average purity of 24.9 percent. Sixty-two exhibits were of unclassifiable origin, with an average purity of 35.3 percent. Tables provide city summary data, average heroin purity by source area and city, heroin dominance by source area, heroin prices, average heroin cost by source area, average heroin prices and purities by city, adulterants by source area, diluents by source area, and brand names and logos by city. Appended individual city sampling, exhibit data by city, and definitions