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U.S. Department of Justice
National Drug Intelligence Center
South Florida HIDTA Drug Market Analysis 2010
May 2010
NDIC analysts expect Colombian and Mexican DTOs to remain the principal wholesale drug traffickers in the South Florida HIDTA region. Other multiethnic traffickers will also continue to have a significant role in drug distribution, as will street gangs. The region is expected to remain a source area for CPDs in the near term, until statewide legislation aimed at curbing diversion from pain management clinics is successfully implemented. NDIC analysts expect that if actions to curb diversion from pain management clinics in South Florida are successful, and the supply of prescription opioid pain relievers is disrupted, many prescription opioid users will switch to heroin. Cocaine availability in the South Florida HIDTA region is expected to remain at levels sufficient to support market demand. Local cannabis cultivators will continue to move more of their indoor grow sites away from urban areas to suburban and rural areas in order to better shield themselves from law enforcement interdiction. Small-scale methamphetamine production is expected to emerge in the South Florida HIDTA region, with the one-pot production method becoming the production method of choice.
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