CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA (AP) --
Iowa officials say restricting access to ingredients used to make methamphetamine has worked in recent years, but more work remains as makers of the drug finds ways around the limits.
Iowa began restricting access to pseudoephedrine, a key meth ingredient, in 2005. That has slowed down the industry in Iowa.
Meth lab seizures peaked in the state with 1,500 in 2004. They dropped to 178 in 2007 and after two years of increases, only 72
meth labs have been seized so far in 2011.
Sheriff's Sgt. Dale Snyder, project director of the Dubuque County Drug Task Force, says labs have gotten smaller. He says meth producers have adapted to purchase limits on certain medicine, sometimes eliminating restricted drugs altogether.
Information from: The Gazette, http://www.gazetteonline.com/
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