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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Drug Policy. 2013 Oct 19;25(2):257–266. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.10.004

Table 1.

US Price and Purity of Heroin, 2000–2008

Price Per Gram retailed (USD) Price Per Gram Pure (USD) Heroin Purity as % by volume
San Francisco Philadelphia San Francisco Philadelphia San Francisco Philadelphia
2000 114.91 294.62 603.02 399.61 19.05 73
2005 87.05 269.37 755.41 503.04 11.58 53.55
2008 89.82 261.03 1058.12 435.41 8.49 59.95

Source: Drug Enforcement Administration System to Retrieve Information from Drug Evidence (STRIDE)