Drug Dealers Cut Cost and Gain Customers!

Demand for cocaine remains steady. Even though Columbia's cocoa fields are being destroyed, the drugs street price in the U.S. continues to fall.

As with any business having good cost management is key to remaining competitive.

Just as a company like Dell Computers will employ cost cutting measures, so do the smugglers and dealers.

The drug business is no different.

Drug smugglers and dealers have gotten more efficient in their operations in order to keep their prices low and increase their business volume.

For example, in the early 1980's the price of one gram of cocaine was about $600.00.

By the late 1990s the price had fallen to about $200.00 per gram.

According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the street price of a gram of cocaine in 2005 was $20 - $25 in New York, $30-100 in Los Angeles and $100-125 in Denver.

Some of the price decrease has come from more efficient distribution networks.

Labor costs have also decreased as well.

Street vendors are now taking a smaller cut of the drug's proceeds.

A lot of drug dealers who got arrested during the 1990s are now leaving prison.

Their convictions and limited job experience leave very little alternative for them to get work so they are willing to take a pay cut and hit the streets again.

Another major contributing factor to lowered costs is a result of lowered risk in handling the drug.

Since 2001 federal drug prosecutions have fallen 25% as agents get diverted to the hunt for terrorists.

Again, drugs are a business and it is all about cost of goods, labor costs, distribution costs and of course the ultimate driving factor -- demand for the product.

So what impact do these factors have on us directly?

Consider that during 2005-2006 there was just over a 10% increase in cocaine use among 12th graders.

This shows that the drug smugglers and dealers cost cutting efforts are starting to pay off.

It also shows that we all need to step up our efforts to educate our youth before they fall prey to the drug smugglers and dealers of the world.

We need to get our kids into the correct mind set about drugs!

While Friends of Narconon managed to reach over 1.6 million kids last year with our Truth About Drugs program, thereby changing a lot of minds, it is clear by the above information that we must work harder to reach more kids, faster.

The Narconon Drug Education program is very effective in teaching kids the truth about drugs in a way they can relate to.

The fact that we can now reach millions of kids using our video program simply underscores the order of magnitude needed to reach out to our youth.

Many of you reading this briefing have a business or work in one.

Every day you face challenges in your business and personal lives.

Just ask yourself these questions:
* How does the drug problem effect my business or job?
* How do I become directly effected by the drug problem in my neighborhood?
* More importantly, with my busy schedules at work, hectic life at home and time limited schedule, how can I possibly do anything about this
drug problem myself?

I have a simple solution for you; "Get a Partner". If you follow news you will see that today is becoming a world of global partnerships.

This is for good reason.

Having the right partnership can extend your potential to reach your goals and achieve a better life.

Why try to do it all yourself, when there are willing people ready to help you?

Let Friends of Narconon be your partner in reducing the drug problem in your area.

We have the track record and statistics to prove that we can get results.

The program is simple. You sponsor as many schools as you can, we in turn will get our video program implemented into schools in your area.

We contact teachers, get them to use the program, have them report results back to us, we do follow up with the schools, we send them certificates of participation and so on.

In short, Friends of Narconon is your one-stop-shop to handling the drug problem in your neighborhood.

Consider this parting thought.

What will happen if you don't do anything about this problem?

Contact Donna Miller at Friends of Narconon today! 1-800-882-6862

Sincerely,

Robert Hernandez, CCDC*
President, Friends of Narconon, Intl.
*Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor
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