NMPI Advisory Board Position Paper, January 21, 2011
The NMPI was founded on the premise that the availability of methamphetamine is directly related to the availability of the essential precursors to manufacture the drug. Those precursors being utilized by illicit methamphetamine lab operators in the United States are pseudoephedrine (PSE) and ephedrine (EPH).
History has shown that methamphetamine manufacturing can be affected immediately if the source of the precursor is found and eliminated. Methamphetamine cannot be made without a chemical precursor. PSE or EPH are currently essential in the modern manufacturing process.
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6-Month-Old Law to Combat Methamphetamine Production Lauded, January 4, 2011
After just six months, a new law requiring a prescription for cold and sinus medicine containing pseudoephedrine has proved to be an effective deterrent to methamphetamine production in Mississippi.
"We averaged three or four labs a month in the three years I have served as sheriff. Since July 1, 2010, we have only had five labs," said Jones County Sheriff Alex Hodge. "We are grateful to the Legislature for passing this."
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Media Release, February 26, 2010
For Immediate Release:
The Kentucky Narcotic Officers’ Association (KNOA) thanks and applaud Representatives Linda Belcher, Martha Jane King and Jody Richards for filing House Bill 497. This legislation confronts a serious public health and safety threat to our state. It will have a major impact toward the reduction of "meth labs" in Kentucky. This legislation would make pseudoephedrine a prescription drug which has had outstanding results in Oregon in reducing meth labs since similar legislation passed there in 2006.
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Kentucky Narcotics Officers’ Association (KNOA) Statement
January 14, 2010
On December 7, 2009, the Kentucky Narcotics Officers Association (KNOA), representing over 300 narcotics officers throughout Kentucky, voted unanimously to approve and support the designation of pseudoephedrine as a scheduled (prescription) drug. The membership believes this action is the most effective means to combat increasing clandestine methamphetamine laboratories (meth labs).
During 2009 in Kentucky, 716 methamphetamine labs were discovered and eliminated.146 of these labs were discovered and eliminated in Jefferson County by the Louisville Metro Police. Louisville Metro has had one meth lab related death in 2009 as well as one the previous year. A 22 month-old child also died during 2009 after drinking acid in a meth lab in Southeastern Kentucky.