Meth Flourishes Nationally Despite Medication Tracking Laws

Published January 11, 2011

Meth flourishes nationally despite medication tracking laws
ST. LOUIS — Electronic systems that track sales of the cold medicine used to make methamphetamine have failed to curb the drug trade and instead created a vast, highly lucrative market for profiteers to buy over-the-counter pills and sell them to meth producers at a huge markup. An Associated Press review of federal data shows that the lure of such easy money has drawn thousands of new people …
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AP IMPACT: Meth flourishes despite tracking laws
ST. LOUIS – At the height of the methamphetamine epidemic, several states turned to a new weapon to disrupt the drug trade: electronic systems that could track sales of the cold medicine used to ma…
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Meth Flourishes Despite Tracking Laws
Posted: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:05 pm | Updated: 12:05 pm, Mon Jan 10, 2011. Tracking sales by computer allowed pharmacies to check instantly whether a buyer had already purchased the legal limit of pseudoephedrine — a step that was supposed to make it harder to obtain raw ingredients for meth.
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