The Evolution Of America's Heroin Epidemic

From poppy field to street corner

This course has been developed as a comprehensive look into the international and domestic heroin trade which has hit epidemic portions in the United States. The course details heroin trafficking from the international sourcing of the drug to its street level distribution. This course covers the transportation, set-up, day to day operations, organizational management, heroin “mill” operations, distribution and financial rewards associated with this very lucrative illicit narcotic.
Our law enforcement Subject Matter Expert is an active narcotics investigator with over twenty years of narcotics, street gang, and criminal suppression experience. The course is presented with the use of power point, lecture, and case studies coupled with the real-life accounts of criminal enforcement targeting international and domestic Heroin Trafficking Organizations.
The second portion of the course is presented by a health care professional who currently is the director of a community-based outpatient facility providing opioid dependency, substance abuse, mental health treatment and counseling. This portion of the course provides a unique

COURSE CONTENT:

  • Heroin’s organic beginnings
  • History of Heroin in America
  • Cultivation and production from poppy to heroin
  • Production and distribution by Narco-Terrorist Groups
  • Global consumption statistics
  • Heroin grades
  • Pricing (wholesale to street level)
  • Methods of use
  • Transitioning from prescription drugs to heroin abuse
  • Heroin mills /Cutting agents
  • International smuggling and concealment methods

MARIJUANA GROWS

PGI has developed a Marijuana Grow Course covering all steps of an indoor grow from set-up to cultivation. Detailed is the operation of clandestine marijuana grows and the overt indicators associated with these grows. Highlighted are the biological and fire hazards associated with these grows and the manufacture of Butane Hash Oil.