The Illicit Drug Industry

(See: Drugs in American Society, 6th and 7th editions, Erich Goode, McGraw-Hill, 2005/2005/2008. Chapter 13 and The Sociology of American Drug Use, Faupel, Horowitz, and Weaver, 2004/2010, chapter 9)

I. Myths surrounding the drug industry

II. Where do drugs come from?

Drug trafficking Models

Importation to USA:

Retail Distribution (see Faupel, et al, 2004, page 289-291)

Heroin

Cocaine

Marijuana

Methamphetamine

Ecstasy:

LSD

III. Street seller to user Transactions

IV. Factors that facilitate drug trade

Education and Intervention

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