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Arizona Drug Facts and Statistics

Arizona is a northern neighboor to Sonora, a Mexican state which is known to be hub for drug trafficking. While most of the 370 mile border is largely comprised of desert sand and rugged mountainous terrain, it is scarcely monitored by law enforcements and has become a breeding ground for drug smugglers.

Due to the conflicts between cartels over control some of the key smuggling routes in the United States, Arizona is seeing an escalation of drug and trafficking related violence, all of which are spilling over in surrounding communities now vulnerable to the violent repercussions of these conflicts.

Arizona serves primarily as a drug smuggling and transportation hub which is controlled primarily by Mexican trafficking groups. These organizations are smuggling cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin and precursor chemicals.

Phoenix, being the largest city in Arizona, has the highest condensation of the drug related crime and and offences then anywhere else in the state. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health results for 2005-2006 indicated that approximately 2.81% (137,000) Arizona citizens reported illicit drug dependence or abuse within the past year. Approximately 1.89% (92,000) reported past year illicit drug dependence.

A 2006 survery conducted indicates that over 11% of high school students in Arizona have used cocaine at least once in their lifetime.

Cocaine is a powerfully addictive stimulant that directly causes a lot of damage to various parts of the body, particularly the brain. Thus, an individual may have difficulty predicting or controlling the extent to which he or she will continue to want or use the drug. When snorted, it tends to be harmful to the nasal cavities, often because the cocaine is mixed with other chemicals, included but not limited to very dangerous element such as tiny shards of glass. The mucous membrane is often affected, which induces swelling and often bleeding may occur.

Cocaine is readily available throughout Arizona while crack is readily available in Arizona’s inner cities and in some smaller communities. It is often smuggled in the state in small quantities (an average of 20 to 30 kilograms) so that drug traffickers don't lose too much in the event that local authorites seize the illegal drugs being smuggled.

Heroin is available throughout the state of Arizona, but it is predominant in the Phoenix region. The most widely abused heroin is definitely the Mexican black tar heroin. A new heroin form has been discovered in Phoenix, it’s called “cheese” and is aimed at younger people.

Although heroin is the least abused of all drugs in Arizona, its availability continues to increase while the demand and distribution networks throughout the United States increase as well.

Heroin is a highly addictive, synthetic drug derived from opiate. Much like morphine, it acts as a depressant that affects the body's nervous system, dampening or numbing the individual's ability to perceive pain. As soon as an individual inhales or injects the heroin, the drug goes to the brain, through the blood, creating a surge of euphoria (“rush”)

This might seem all pleasant for its user, but the effects of heroin are very dangerous, affecting the user's ability to perceive thing around him, speed of his reflexes and ability to make coherent decisions.

Methamphetamine abuse is a very big problem in the state of Arizona, particularly in Phoenix, where it appears to be the drug of choice. Although the number of meth lab incidents have decreased, the amount of actual methamphetamine seizures by authorities seems to be growig in number by the year.

The abuse at teen level is of concern as well. A comparative report indicates a +1% increase in high school student users between 2004 and 2006. Additionally, the Phoenix Police Department reported that of the 115 individuals involved in murder in the first six months of 2005, nearly 30% of those individuals were tested positive for meth. This statistic was in increase from the previous year - a clear indicator of the destructiveness of this drug.

Due to the nature of it's attractive "high", meth users find themselves very easily trapped by the vicious circle of meth addiction, and within a short amount of time and repeated use, the effects of methamphetamine exert devastating effects on the the mind and body of its user, damaging their physical health and cognitive abilities, decreasing their libido, ruinning their looks and their ability to experience pleasure.

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