A Deadly trail

Despite the efforts of law enforcement agencies around the globe, heroin and deadly synthetic opioids like fentanyl and
carfentanyl continue to flow into the United States and eventually the SouthCoast. With seemingly countless entry points, Street distribution ME.
drug enforcement agencies are struggling to stem the deadly tide. This map offers just one of the myriad ways opioids
wind up on our streets.
VT.
Fentanyl 87
93
95
Opium flower Opium fields in Mexico
ALASKA
N.H.

87
91
Atlantic Ocean

CANADA 90
MASS.
N.Y. Boston
90

Springfield 95

Providence
195
Hartford New
U.S.A. CONN.
NORTH KOREA 87 R.I. Bedford
Tucson
New York
SOUTH KOREA JAPAN
95
91
San Diego
CHINA 95
Tijuana
Atlantic Ocean
Nogales Gulf of Mexico
Nuevo Laredo New York City
Sinaloa MEXICO 495
Pacific Ocean HAWAII

20 miles

Drug tunnel Drug tunnel Drugs for transport Drugs for transport Street distribution

AUSTRALIA

1 2 3 4 5
Production | China Manufacturing | Mexico Distribution | U.S.A. Distribution | New York – Distribution | Boston –
Synthetic opioids are produced in Once in Mexico, synthetic opioids such as Drugs that cross into the United States usually go to secret warehouses Massachusetts street level dealers
fentanyl are mixed with heroin and filler or or storage centers in large U.S. border cities like Tucson, Ariz., or San From Boston, local distributors move the
clandestine labs in China and market- Opioids, like many other drugs, are shipped from New York
cutting agents at secret drug factories and Diego, Calif. “Domestic cartels” comprised of Mexican and Dominican drugs up the coast by boat, car or truck to
ed on the global black market and City, N.Y. up Interstate 95, with drug drop offs along the way.
shipped across the U.S.- Mexican border drug distributors move the heroin out of warehouses and throughout Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. The
“black web.” Opioids are shipped via Domestic distributors make deliveries to smaller cities like
at busy border crossings such as Nogales, the country, primarily using cars and trucks along America’s Interstate local distributors then sell their product
Hartford, Conn. Providence, R.I., and Springfield and New
air and sea to the state of Sinaloa on Tijuana, and Nuevo Laredo. Highway System. The fentanyl-laced heroin goes to large cities first, to street-level dealers.
Bedford in Massachusetts before hitting Boston.
Mexico’s west coast. where intermediaries distribute it to street dealers.

Source: maps4news.com/©HERE ZAK DENNIS/GATEHOUSE MEDIA