Fighting the insidious scourge of methamphetamine
Easy to make, cheap to buy, and difficult to detect, the meth epidemic has spread indiscriminately across the heartland of America, claiming the lives of thousands, the livelihoods of millions, and imposing clean-up and environmental costs on small and rural communities that run in the billions.
Working with lawmakers from Oregon to Maine, from Minnesota to New Mexico, Congressman Blunt authored the “Exile Meth Act” in the 109th Congress, which made available new funding to states to help prosecute meth cooks and distributors to the fullest extent of the law. He was also a key sponsor of the landmark “Combat Meth Act of 2006,” which severely limited the amount and type of chemicals meth cooks could obtain to produce their illicit products.