Although some meth makers tried “smurfing,” sending emissaries to several stores to make purchases, meth cases plummeted.īut meth, it turns out, was only on hiatus. In 2005 Congress passed the Combat Methamphetamine Act, which put pseudoephedrine behind the counter, limited sales to 7.5 grams per customer in a 30-day period and required pharmacies to track sales. Everything would come to a screeching halt.”
“Patrol would roll up on a domestic violence call, and there’d be a lab in the kitchen. “We rolled from meth lab to meth lab,” said Sgt. In 2004, the Portland police responded to 114 meth houses. Narcotics squads became glorified hazmat teams, spending entire shifts on cleanup. In the early 2000s, meth made from pseudoephedrine, the decongestant in drugstore products like Sudafed, poured out of domestic labs like those in the early seasons of the hit television show “Breaking Bad.” But also, two: There is more meth on the streets today, more people are using it, and more of them are dying.ĭrugs go through cycles - in the 1980s and early ’90s, the use of crack cocaine surged. One: The number of domestic meth labs has declined precipitously, and along with it the number of children harmed and police officers sickened by exposure to dangerous chemicals. The decades-long effort to fight methamphetamine is a tale with two takeaways. “But where there is a void,” he added, “someone fills it.”
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