NCJ Number
221513
Date Published
December 2007
Length
52 pages
Annotation
Drawing upon the national Drug Threat Assessment 2008, this report is a national-level strategic assessment of methamphetamine trafficking in the United States and provides trends in methamphetamine production, transportation, distribution, and abuse.
Abstract
Highlights of strategic findings include: (1) Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) are circumventing chemical sale and import restrictions in Mexico in order to maintain large-scale methamphetamine production; (2) methamphetamine production in Canada has risen in recent years; (3) ice methamphetamine prices have increased significantly in some drug markets in California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, and South Carolina; (4) law enforcement pressure and chemical controls in the United States and Mexico appear to be contributing to intermittent methamphetamine shortages in some western drug markets; (5) methamphetamine abusers and distributors are increasingly engaging in identity theft to fund drug purchases and distribution operations; and (6) methamphetamine use appears to be stable, however, treatment for methamphetamine abuse has more than doubled since 2000. The National Methamphetamine Threat Assessment 2008 is a national-level strategic assessment of methamphetamine trafficking in the United States. These assessment findings address significant trends in methamphetamine production, transportation, distribution, and abuse. In addition, regional summaries provide strategic overviews of the methamphetamine situation in each of the nine Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force regions. Figures, appendix A-C