Drug Rehab Texas

The great state of Texas is increasingly seeing a rise in drug addiction. This steady increase is in turn creating a need for more quality Texas drug rehab programs. Across the country and in Texas there are many different choices for drug treatment and the process of choosing which type of treatment is appropriate can be a daunting task. Drug treatment methods available in Texas include inpatient, outpatient, long term treatment, short term treatment the list goes on from there.

Choosing the right type of drug rehab in Texas can be simplified by speaking with a supportive drug rehab staff member. The foremost treatment goal of a Texas drug rehab should always be the same; to help the addict come to a place where they can willingly choose sobriety over an active drug addiction. Getting to that goal can be accomplished in many different ways depending on the drug treatment methods that are utilized in treating the drug addiction. Each person is different and successful drug treatment facilities will include various components that specifically address the personal needs of the individual.

Due to the nature of drug addiction often by the time the drug addict is ready to accept help their addiction has taken away their physical and financial strength. It also negatively affects the addict's friends and family as well as society as a whole. The costs that are directly related to drug addiction in Texas can include the costs to the state for additional law enforcement, drug rehab treatment costs, and most importantly the cost in terms of human lives. A significant percentage of the fatal automobile accidents in Texas are linked directly to drug and alcohol abuse. Another negative effect of a drug addiction is the risk of a deadly drug overdose, which occurs more often than many realize.

Generally, a drug addicted person is unable to overcome their addiction problems without the help of a drug rehab facility. With the assistance of a Texas drug rehab center, an individual has a much greater chance at success in overcoming drug addiction. For the best possible long term recovery outcome, an individual should choose a Texas drug rehab center that has an excellent rate of long term success in treating drug addictions. Additionally, it is important to ask questions in regard to the credentials of the Texas drug rehab center.

For many who need drug rehabilitation, the cost of care is one of the primary factors in choosing which program they attend. This is an important factor but keep in mind that cost alone should by no means be the determining factor in choosing a treatment option that will work best for you. A counselor at a drug rehab will help to take the guesswork out of choosing the best possible drug treatment selection, to help you or your loved one to have the best chance of being completely free from drug addiction.

Texas drug rehab counselors are experienced in all areas of drug addiction and alcoholism. They are trained at helping you by answering any substance abuse questions that you may have regarding the Texas treatment center you are considering. The counselors can offer assistance in developing a life saving treatment plan that can effectively treat your drug addiction. Spending a period of time gathering information about the treatment options can help you to choose the best Texas drug rehab center for you or your love one.

• Under the supervision of the Department of State Health Services, the Partnership for a Drug-Free Texas generates millions of dollars in advertising and media exposure to encourage Texas youths to make wise choices about alcohol and other drugs.
• During 2007, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) made 2,812 drug arrests in Texas.
• There were 144,953 total drug related arrests in Texas during 2008.
• Cocaine continues to be readily available in Texas. Statewide price ranges for powder cocaine based on data from select sites from July-December 2008 were $50-$100/gram, $400-$1,000/ounce, and $11,000-$28,000/kilogram. Statewide price ranges for crack cocaine were $10-$50/rock (with $10-$20 being the most common price), $350-$1,000/ounce, and $14,000-$26,000/kilogram.
• The predominant form of heroin in Texas is black tar, which has a dark, gummy, oily texture that can be diluted with water and injected. The price black tar heroin has decreased over the years. Depending on the location, black tar heroin sold on the street for $5-$20/paper, balloon, or capsule, $100-$300/gram, $800-$4,000/ounce, and $25,000-$62,000/kilogram.
• Methamphetamine indicators have changed since 2005, with supplies down, prices increasing, and purity decreasing. Statewide, the purity of methamphetamine dropped from 56% in 2004 to 33% in 2008 because it is being cut with methylsulfonylmethane (MSM). Pure methamphetamine from Mexico, which typically sold for $18,000-$20,000/pound, sold for $18,500/pound when "cut" with MSM.
• Marijuana remains readily available and is considered the most widely used illegal drug throughout Texas. Hydroponic marijuana sold for $2,500-$6,000/pound, commercial grade marijuana sold for $85-800/pound, and Sinsemilla sold for $300-$1,200/pound.
• Club drugs remain readily available in North Texas. The most frequently abused club drug is ecstasy (MDMA). Ecstasy is often used in combination with other drugs, and the increase in use and abuse of the drug is demonstrated in the increases in the numbers of clients seeking treatment.
• The diversion of prescription drugs continues to be a significant enforcement issue in Texas. Hydrocodone, alprazolam, and benzodiazepene products continue to comprise the majority of prescription controlled drugs abused in North Texas. Additionally, OxyContin abuse is on the increase, with most illegal prescriptions being written by pain management doctors. Mexican border town pharmacies remain an important source of illegal pharmaceuticals seized in the Houston Field Division.
• According to 2006-2007 data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), approximately 1.2 million (7%) Texas citizens (ages 12 or older) reported past month use of an illicit drug.
• More than 8 million (43.90%) Texas citizens reported that using marijuana occasionally (once a month) was a "great risk".
• Additional 2006-2007 NSDUH results indicate that 514,000 (2.74%) Texas citizens reported illicit drug dependence or abuse within the past year. Approximately 355,000 (1.89%) reported past year illicit drug dependence.
• Approximately 5% of Texas high school seniors surveyed in 2008 reported lifetime methamphetamine use.
• Additional Texas student survey data indicate that approximately 17% of high school seniors surveyed in 2008 reported use of an illicit drug during the past month.
• According to 2006-2007 NSDUH data, approximately 189,000 (9%) Texas 12-17 year olds reported past month use of an illicit drug.
• As of October 31, 2008, there were 87,216 full-time law enforcement employees in Texas (52,589 officers and 34,627 civilians).
• The volume of illicit drugs transported through Texas by land, sea and air is immense. Most drugs are transported through Texas on their way to the major consumer markets of the Midwest and the eastern United States. Drug-related proceeds are then transported back through Texas in bulk quantities to Mexico and points beyond.
• Bulk currency smuggling is the most popular and effective means employed in transporting drug related proceeds to criminal organizations based in northern Mexico. It is not unusual for state and local police officers to make seizures of hundreds of thousands or millions of "narco" dollars headed southbound through Texas.
• Marijuana loads seized from private vehicles and semi-tractor trailers range from 230 to 3,636 kilograms. Multi-pound and multi-ton marijuana seizures occur at all transportation terminals, U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection checkpoints, and local courier service locations.
• Interdiction efforts indicate that prescription drug smuggling from Mexico, where these drugs can be sold over the counter, contributes to the illegal distribution of prescription medications.
• Texas state and local law enforcement agencies seized more than 575,000 pounds of marijuana during 2008.
• There were 112 methamphetamine laboratory incidents in Texas reported by the DEA and state and local authorities during 2008.
• During 2008, Federal agencies seized more than 500,000 kilograms of marijuana in Texas.

For help with a drug or alcohol problem please contact a Texas drug rehab facility today to speak with a Texas drug addiction specialist. Recovery from drug and alcohol addiction is truly only a phone call away.

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Texas Drug Information and Drug Trafficking

Drug trafficking sources in Texas share that the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area serves primarily as a drug distribution and transshipment area. Drug smuggling and transportation are dominated by major Mexican trafficking organizations. These groups are poly-drug organizations smuggling methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana to the Dallas/Fort Worth area for distribution in the Eastern, Southeastern, and Midwestern United States.

The Division's central location, and its physical and cultural proximity to the Mexican Border, provide a natural advantage for drug distribution/transshipment throughout the United States. Due to its geographical location and extensive transportation infrastructure, the Houston Field Division continues to be a primary transshipment area for the bulk importation of most major categories of drugs to include marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine. Drug smuggling and illicit transportation are primarily dominated by Mexican, Colombian and Dominican poly-drug trafficking organizations.

Drug information from Texas shows that EL Paso is also considered a hub for significant amounts of drug proceeds being laundered through small businesses. The Alpine, Texas Resident Office covers 22,609 miles, 315 of which are directly on the Southwest Border. This area is largely rural and sparsely populated, encompassing Big Bend Corridor, a transshipment route for drugs entering the U.S. from Northeast Mexico.

These shipments travel en route to Midland/Odessa and other cities in the U.S. Criminal organizations based in Chihuahua, Mexico maintain command and control elements in the Midland/Odessa area to the north and in the border towns of Presidio and Redford to the south. Higher echelon members of the criminal organizations are often extended family members, making penetration of those organizations extremely difficult.

It is estimated that as much as 30% of the truck traffic will be diverted from California and El Paso POEs to Presidio. This highway begins at a deep-water Pacific Ocean port that is over 500 miles closer and much less congested than the Port of Los Angeles. This completed route will save up to four shipping days for goods moving between the Pacific Rim countries and Texas. Additionally, the South Orient Railroad (purchased by the State of Texas in 2001), was leased for 40 years to Nuevo Grupo, Mexico, and is expected to provide not only daily passenger train service but also freight service between Mexico and the U.S.

Drug information from North Texas notes that the state is a distribution and transshipment area for cocaine that is distributed via passenger vehicles and tractor-trailers to destinations in the Midwestern, Northern, and Eastern U.S. Intelligence indicates that organizations operating on the East Coast are interested in setting up an operation in the greater Dallas area in order to obtain reliable supplies of cocaine at a lower price than what they pay on the East Coast.

The Houston Division is a major transshipment, distribution, and consumption center for Colombian cocaine. The narcotics are either shipped directly to Texas or transshipped through Mexico. Illicit transporters favor the exploitation of the commercial trucking industry to move bulk (multi-hundred kilogram) quantities of Colombian cocaine through the Houston Division. Smaller loads are routinely seized from privately owned vehicles or from couriers utilizing busses or the airlines.

Drug trafficking sources report that the El Paso/Juarez corridor serves as a transshipment point for cocaine to various locations in the U.S. Seized loads range from 50-800 pounds. Cocaine is the drug of choice among users in New Mexico and the availability is high. The El Paso/Juarez corridor is the route primarily used to transport cocaine to Albuquerque and is distributed to other parts of the State from there.

Cocaine is transported through New Mexico by MDTOs at an increasing rate. Multiple kilogram quantities are routinely seized from commercial trucks, public transportation and private vehicles. The most common seizures occur when couriers are interdicted on public transportation with two to three kilograms of cocaine carried on their body.

Throughout the metropolitan areas of Dallas and Fort Worth, crack cocaine remains popular and easily attainable. Drug information sources share that the Dallas metropolitan area serves as the primary distribution point for crack to outlying areas in North Texas as well as the states of Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi.

Crack is readily available throughout the Houston Division. It is produced locally. Crack is trafficked by local organizations along the I-10 corridor in east Texas to western Louisiana. There is ample availability of "crack" cocaine in El Paso, where its use is considered low to moderate. In Midland, Texas, crack cocaine use and distribution is at a level that is considered dangerous to the quality of life. The crack cocaine abuse is a primary concern to both local and federal law enforcement agencies in the Midland/Odessa area. Crack poses the greatest threat to school children, as street level distributors can be found in all social and economic layers of the community. Of special concern is the high level of violence associated with crack cocaine traffickers.

Drug information from Texas shows that Mexican black tar (MBT) heroin remains the primary heroin threat in north Texas and is readily available. Based on intelligence, the greater Dallas Fort Worth area is a distribution point for MBT heroin shipped to the Eastern, Southeastern, and Midwestern United States.

Intelligence indicates an increase in the availability of Colombian and Southwest Asian (SWA) heroin in the greater Dallas area. Mexican black tar and brown heroin are routinely seized in south Texas. In recent years, the Houston Field Division has been identified as a transshipment point for kilogram quantities of Colombian heroin destined for the east coast.

Small quantities of Asian heroin are sporadically encountered in south Texas, smuggled in via courier or seized from the mail. Within the last year, there has been a noticeable increase in the availability and purity of Mexican heroin in south Texas. Mexican black tar and brown heroin are routinely seized at the POEs in El Paso County. Black tar heroin has long been available in this region from sources in the Mexican States of Durango and Chihuahua.

Texas drug trafficking information notes that heroin is most commonly smuggled in secret compartments in private vehicles and concealed on persons. The heroin is usually carried across the border by couriers; however there is a developing trend of heroin distributors crossing the border with their supply. Heroin availability has shown a steady increase over the past five years as evidenced by the increase in kilogram seizures and a steady decrease in price. Enforcement operations have significantly disrupted the availability of street level quantities of heroin in the area and briefly reduced the number of overdoses and overdose deaths. However, in part because heroin use is socially and culturally accepted in the area, the heroin issue consistently reappears.

Availability of methamphetamine remains high in north Texas, and the pace of enforcement activities surrounding methamphetamine continues to escalate. Mexican manufactured methamphetamine is transported to the region through traditional means, such as passenger and commercial vehicles. Additionally, small clandestine labs that produce small amounts of extremely high quality methamphetamine are encountered in both rural and urban areas.

Recent intelligence and seizure analysis indicates an increased availability of high purity methamphetamine in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex area. Because of the increased demand, greater availability, and expanding market, the high purity methamphetamine threat will probably increase. The availability of both Mexican methamphetamine and locally produced methamphetamine in the Houston Division is increasing.

Mexican methamphetamine is the primary type found in the Division. It is transported in multi-pound quantities directly from Mexico or from Mexico via California. From Houston, methamphetamine is also distributed to the midwest and the east coast. In Houston, crystallized Methamphetamine (ICE) is being sold in local clubs and is also being offered by Mexican traffickers.

Domestically produced methamphetamine continues to be manufactured by motorcycle gangs and independent producers in small batches using pseudoephedrine, anhydrous ammonia, red phosphorous, iodine, lithium batteries, or muriatic acid. There are numerous labs operating in East Texas, Corpus Christi, and Austin. Most of these labs are small, mobile pseudoephedrine labs that produce small amounts for distribution in the local area.

Methamphetamine poses a multi-pronged threat in this region. It is available in multiple kilogram quantities. The majority of methamphetamine seized originates in Mexico, but arrives in New Mexico from distributors in Los Angeles, CA and Phoenix, AZ. Methamphetamine investigations are especially prevalent in the area known as the Four Corners Region where the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet to form a common border and along the eastern New Mexico/Texas border.

Texas drug information revels that small, clandestine laboratories are popular in the area, especially in remote, rural locations in New Mexico. In Southern New Mexico, closer to Las Cruces and El Paso, the current preferred process is the "Birch method", that uses chemicals, such as anhydrous ammonia, to process methamphetamine. Use of the "Birch method" is believed to be an attempt by small laboratory operators to acquire non-controlled chemicals for production, in order to subvert law enforcement scrutiny.

Recent intelligence analysis indicates increased seizures of more "Mom and Pop" methamphetamine labs in the El Paso Division. It is cheaper to produce methamphetamine for your own use versus buying it on the street.

Club drugs remain readily available in North Texas. The most frequently abused of club drugs is "Ecstasy" (MDMA). Intelligence indicates the increased abuse of Ecstasy among 18 to 24 year old African Americans, specifically in the greater Dallas area. Asians continue to be involved in the sale and distribution of MDMA. Intelligence further indicates increased interest among Mexican traffickers to distribute and sell Ecstasy in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

The Dallas FD is currently ranked 2nd nationally for GHB and Rohypnol emergency room visits and above national average in its emergency room visits for MDMA, Ketamine, LSD, and PCP. The majority of the MDMA available in the Houston Division continues to originate in Europe, specifically from Belgium and the Netherlands. MDMA is most commonly transported via courier through airlines.

Recent reporting from Monterrey, Mexico shows northern Mexico to be an emerging source for MDMA production. The availability and popularity of MDMA is increasing in the area covered by the Division. Raves are a primary venue for MDMA distribution, in addition to clubs and gyms. The number and frequency of raves throughout the area has increased. Other dangerous drugs readily available and transported through Houston include Rohypnol, Ketamine, GHB, LSD, and PCP.

Several drugs in this category are more available, due, in part, to El Paso's close proximity to Juarez, Mexico, where purchases can be made over the counter from unscrupulous pharmacists. Ecstasy, Rohypnol, and other pharmaceuticals are being used at Rave parties in El Paso County. The use of these types of drugs has not skyrocketed, as in other metropolitan areas in the U.S. These same drugs are available in New Mexico.

Drug information from Texas shows that the most common methods of diversion of pharmaceutical controlled substances continue to be illegal and indiscriminate prescribing and "doctor shopping." Hydrocodone, alprazolam, and benzodiazepene products continue to comprise the majority of prescription controlled drugs abused in North Texas. OxyContin has surpassed hydrocodone as the drug of choice for abusers seeking pharmaceuticals in the Tyler area.

The most commonly abused pharmaceutical drugs in Houston continue to be Hydrocodone, Promethazine with Codeine and other Codeine cough syrups, and Benzodiazepines (mostly Alprazolam). OxyContin abuse is on the increase, with most illegal prescriptions being written by pain management doctors. In addition to the aforementioned, commonly abused pharmaceutical drugs in San Antonio include Morphine, Dilaudid, Diazepam, Xanax, Tussionex, Lortab, Vicodin, and Ketamine.

The major avenues for diversion continue to be illegal and indiscriminate prescribing and dispensing, pharmacy theft, employee pilferage, and forged prescriptions. The diversion of prescription drugs continues to be a significant enforcement issue. Illegal or improper prescription practices are the primary source for illegally obtained prescription drugs, primarily in the oxycodone/hydrocodone families.

Interdiction efforts also indicate that prescription drug smuggling from Mexico, where these drugs can be sold over the counter, contributes to the illegal distribution of prescription medications. Compounding this issue, is the state's severe shortage of qualified medical personnel which forces state authorities to grant prescriptive authority to practitioners not licensed in other states.