Pseudoephedrine laws all but stopped meth labs in state

In 2010, there were 936,759 retail pseudoephedrine transactions in Arkansas. In 2011, a law called Act 588 imposed tighter restrictions on pseudoephedrine and by 2012, transactions dropped to 191,926. The drug is a key ingredient in the manufacturing of methamphetamine, and 5 years after the regulations were put in place, meth labs have all but disappeared in conjunction with the pseudoephedrine sales decline. DEA officials say the regulations were the correct move. In fact, DEA agents do not even track meth lab seizure reports anymore.