What is Black Tar heroin?

Black tar heroin is mainly produced in Mexico. Black tar heroin may be sticky like roofing tar or hard like coal. Color can vary from dark brown to black. The color and consistency of black tar heroin result from the crude processing methods used in the illicit manufacture of heroin in Mexico. Black tar heroin is often sold on the street in the tar-like state in purity from 20 to 80 percent. Usually, the black tar heroin sold in small foil or cellophane packets or in small toy balloons. For the development of customers quickly, traders can specifically target methadone clinic. These clinics, where heroin drug addicts receiving methadone, which blocks their need for heroin. These individuals become easy prey for the seller and often become regular clients. The potency of street heroin is rarely known and overdose often results.

Black tar heroin is usually dissolved, diluted and then injected. Black tar heroin addicts place small amounts of black tar heroin in a spoon. Spoon, using them is bent, so sit level without spilling when placed in the table. Then they add a little water and is heated over a flame. When black tar heroin has melted it is drawn up into the syringe and injected. This method of administration poses special difficulties because of the transfer HIV and other diseases that may arise from sharing needles or other injection equipment. Paraphernalia for injecting black tar heroin include hypodermic needles, small cotton balls (for the strain of drug), water and spoons or bottle ceiling used to"cook"or liquefying the heroin. High tar usually lasts from four to six hours.
Southern California, especially Los Angeles, is a major transport and distribution hub for Mexican black tar heroin and brown powder heroin. Black tar is intended for drug markets in California and across the U.S.. Almost all of the heroin produced in Mexico are destined for distribution in the U.S.. Mexico-based heroin continues to dominate the market, in the western United States. Evidence suggests that trafficking organizations from Mexico, have tried to produce higher purity heroin. Mexican heroin distribution networks in the United States are managed almost entirely by criminal organizations operating from Mexico and Mexican-American criminal gangs who are responsible for street level distribution of heroin. In the past, couriers typically smuggled only small quantities of heroin across the US-Mexico border. Now heroin is smuggled in large quantities, as marked by the seizure of larger shipments.