Fighting meth in 2008

Government Technology, a publication that analyzes solutions for governments in the information age, praises Arkansas for deploying electronic logbooks to keep better tabs on who is buying precursors to meth and in what quantities. These logbooks electronically link pharmacies in order to halt purchasing of small amounts of precursors from several retailers.

The electronic logbook program was created by Act 508 of 2007, which required ACIC to create a real-time statewide electronic logbook for all pharmacies to reduce and ultimately eliminate meth manufacturing. The DEA reports that law enforcement seizures of meth labs diminished in Arkansas from 714 in 2004 to 240 in 2007.