I live in the NW suburbs of chicago and I haven't seen ANY dope at all nor have I heard about people my age using. Also haven't heard of anyone ODing. All of the people I know out here in the NW burbs (cook & lake county) smoke pot, eat Ecstasy/do molly or snort cocaine (powder). Of course tons of xanax. Or nothing at all (perhaps some booze). And that stuff is pretty easy to find. I can make one phone call and all of the above would all be here within 20 minutes.
That said-
The other day I read an article in the Daily Herald (suburban daily paper) that was kind of shocking - like a two page feature about all sorts of kids getting addicted and parents were having a rally somewhere about awareness. Strangely, one of the "things to check if your child is using dope" is: check their tollway IPASS account and see how often they're going into the city.
If they have no reason to go downtown (what suburbanites call the entire city of chicago, not just "the loop" or the real "downtown"), they're going downtown to cop. Based on this info, I reason that there's not alot of actual "cop spots" in the NW burbs, just alot of people doing it in the NW burbs. Mainly kids.
Here it is:
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120623/news/706239876/
Me? I'm an old lady. I grew up in the North suburbs, have many friends who still live in all suburbs, and I just moved to NW suburbs in March (I lived in the city since I was 19 or so). So far, I haven't met ANY dopeheads out here at all. Not that I necessarily want to meet any. Have a feeling an NA meeting may be the only place...