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Drug Trends Idaho

Club Drugs
Club Drugs, particularly MDMA (methylene-dioxy-methamphetamine) (also known as Ecstasy), LSD, and ketamine are popular among young adults and are sold at local rave parties. Synthetic drugs, uncommon in other areas of the division, to include 2C-B, DET (a drug that imitates a psychotic state for psychological/medical experiments), SMeo DIPT, a.k.a. "Foxy" and "Foxy Methoxy" have appeared in the Boise rave scene.

Cocaine
Cocaine is readily available throughout the state, but is largely limited to affluent users. Because of its lower price and higher purity, methamphetamine has replaced cocaine as the drug of choice.

Heroin
Mexican black tar and brown heroin is readily available in Idaho. It is commonly smuggled into the state in hidden compartments in vehicles.

Marijuana
Marijuana cultivation, both indoor and outdoor, is widespread. Mexican marijuana is also available, but is not preferred.

Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine is one of the most widely abused drugs in the state. Methamphetamine impacts across all elements of society. Most methamphetamine is manufactured elsewhere, primarily in Mexico, California, and other Southwest Border States. When large quantities of methamphetamine are seized in northern Idaho, the source is usually from the Yakima Valley, WA, area. There is significant clandestine laboratory activity in Idaho, and the number of Mexican Superlabs (producing over ten pounds of methamphetamine per cook) has increased.

Idaho Drug and Alcohol News

Sherriff's office: Franklin County, Idaho drug use decreasing

PRESTON, IDAHO- Following last month's methamphetamine overdose of a 21-month old Preston, Idaho girl, city police and the county sheriff's department say they are working harder to curb area drug use.

While drug use in Franklin County, Idaho is decreasing there is still cause for concern, said Franklin County Sheriff's Capt. David Fryar.

"It's harder for people to find dope here. For our community, though, it's still a big problem," he said.

The Idaho Franklin County Sheriff's Department responds to about 25 drug-related incidents per year, Fryar said. The main drugs involved are marijuana and methamphetamine.

Drugs are typically found during traffic stops, drug buys, search warrants, or as a cause of death, Fryar said.

"It seems like an everyday thing," said Chief Scott Shaw of the Idaho Preston Police Department, regarding drug-related crime.

However, a decrease in the number of meth labs is being seen, as well as less importation of drugs, he said.

"We'll never completely eradicate it," Shaw said, "but we can keep it to a trickle."

"We are very aggressive in how we respond," he added.

Preston, Idaho has a zero tolerance policy towards drug use.

"If we see a marijuana butt in your ashtray, or find residue, you're going in," he said.

Shaw said there is not a big drug problem in area schools. The average age of offenders in Franklin County is between 25 and 35, he said.

"Right now, it would be difficult for a high school kid to get meth," he said. "There might be an occasional joint, though."

In the case of the 21-month old girl, Preston resident Genaro Murillo Silva, 26, has been charged with felony injury to a child.

According to court papers, Silva allegedly allowed the girl "to be placed in a circumstance where her health was endangered, where methamphetamine was present to ingest and which said child did ingest."

He is being held in the Franklin County, Idaho Jail on $25,000 bail. Silva was bound over to district court Thursday. He has pleaded not guilty.

The girl was treated at Primary Children's Hospital. She was released into protective custody after treatment. Her 4-year old sister was also put into protective custody and taken from the home.