This is the first entry of a new regular column in the NDEWS Weekly Briefing.
We will be speaking to Sentinel Site Directors and NDEWS collaborators, and we will also be soliciting submissions and comments from readers. We are seeking information from the field regarding new and emerging trends in drug use, availability, and associated consequences in your area.
An email submission from Painesville, Ohio, informed NDEWS that “there is an unending and cheap supply of "ice" via cartel manufacturing techniques and virtually no homemade methamphetamine.” The informant shared that there are no longer “smurfs” (pseudophedrine purchasers) in their area.
Dr. Jane Maxwell, NDEWS collaborator, shared this quote from one of her best street sources: “Not sure how much you have kept up with fentanyl showing up in methamphetamine, cocaine, and MDMA, but there is some interesting (and somewhat confusing) info on dos/don’ts of testing meth and MDMA. Are you hearing of fentanyl showing up in lots of meth or coke?”
Share with us here! We need your input.