Methamphetamine is out of control in Indiana’s, Wabash Valley. Despite efforts of Indiana lawmakers, the devastating effects continue to exhaust and bring harm to the Wabash Valley community. As a result, lawmakers are proposing new 2015 state laws. One law would restrict previous methamphetamine offenders from purchasing medicines containing pseudoephedrine the main ingredient used to make methamphetamine from pharmacies. Unless, they have a prescription from a doctor. Pharmacies use a system that requires identification to purchase medicines containing pseudoephedrine. In addition, the system also limits and tracks the amounts purchased. This law would only prevent previous offenders from purchasing pseudoephedrine. It would not stop the groups of individuals called smurfs that are doing the purchasing for methamphetamine offenders. Another approach to the issue is to make over-the-counter medicines containing pseudoephedrine a prescription-only drug for all of Indiana. This approach would help to control the purchasing of pseudoephedrine by methamphetamine offenders and the groups called smurfs who are contributing to an already enormous amount of problems. Now, there are smurfs contributing to the problem that need consideration when making changes to the laws for methamphetamine. MiddelKamp, B. (2015, February 19). “State Senator Randy Head said cooks hire multiple people to go into stores to buy the legal limits that way, the system can’t restrict purchases if they’re made by different people”. These groups are not assisting in the making of methamphetamine, but they are just as responsible. As a result, they need held accountable for their hand in the horrors of Indiana’s methamphetamine problems. By only restricting previous offenders these groups, calling themselves smurfs will continue to do the buying of pseudoephedrine for methamphetamine cooks. In other words, helping continue the problems of methamphetamine in Indiana’s Wabash Valley. No child should be born into this world screaming in pain from an addiction to methamphetamine. This drug is so addictive that even a pregnant mother will feed it to an unborn child. Then the child is born with the mother’s addiction to methamphetamine, and sometimes no one even knows. The mother’s still continue abusing their babies by not speaking up, and they cannot speak for themselves. As a result, the babies can go untreated for days in pain from an addiction to this drug. Brittany, Earl (February 23, 2015). “At Union Hospital, one to two babies a month are born with methamphetamine in their systems”. This may not sound like a big number to some, but one is too much. Something needs done to help control the problems of methamphetamine in the Wabash Valley. Stricter laws such as a prescription-only law to keep the main ingredient pseudoephedrine out of the hands that make, and contribute to the methamphetamine problems in Indiana, would be worth the trouble of getting a prescription. Although, the law proposed to make pseudoephedrine a prescription-only medicine for previous methamphetamine offenders would prevent issues for those that really need these types of over-the-counter medicines for their allergies. Meanwhile, it will not stop previous offenders from finding others willing to earn about fifty dollars per box to buy it for them. They target people who live on the streets. Due to their circumstances, they are an easy target for methamphetamine offenders. Furthermore, they will even bring their loved ones into the vicious circle. The people participating in this activity will sacrifice everything even what they love. For example, forgetting about their children leaving them neglected and abused. Even with addictions of their own, or severe illness in some instances. When law enforcements encounter meth labs, many times there are children involved. It is unspeakable the possible dangers that these children could face when they our helplessly exposed to the careless, and selfish indulgence into the use or making of methamphetamine by their parents. For instance, Governor’s Office of Criminal Justice Planning, n. d., Multi-Agency Partnerships: Linking Drugs with Child Endangerment, Sacramento, CA, p. 9. (June 2003). “The children had needle marks on their feet, legs, hands, and arms from accidental contact with syringes”. “A hospital exam revealed that all the children were infected with hepatitis C”. This is just one of the many emotionally heartbreaking realities caused by this drug. Another serious issue is the explosive fires that can result from cooking methamphetamine. If they are not careful, some of the chemicals used in cooking methamphetamine are easily ignitable. It would only take a tiny spark from an ignition source like a lighter to set off an unnecessary tragedy. A tragedy that more than likely could end in death. Not just of the ones involved, but also the community members that might live in the area, and the teams that respond to help and clean-up afterwards. There are no good outcomes when it comes to methamphetamine. No, matter how you look at it there are only problems that need answers. Things are at the point where drastic measures will be necessary if lawmakers and law enforcements plan to gain more control over this drug. All the tragic happenings of methamphetamine are signs that it is time for another way to deal with the problem. Innocent children and people should not have to suffer at the hands of these types of offenders who have no concern for their own lives. Much less the consequences of their actions. They are only concerned about their addiction to this drug. In concluding, despite previous laws enforced to try to control the methamphetamine problems in Indiana’s Wabash Valley the effects caused by the use and production of methamphetamine are not slowing down. Until, lawmakers secure the main ingredient pseudoephedrine. The law to prevent previous offenders from buying pseudoephedrine will not stop the groups called smurfs from supplying meth cooks with pseudoephedrine. The law like a prescription-only law would make it more difficult for cooks, and groups called smurfs to obtain the medicines containing pseudoephedrine. Therefore, although the prescription-only law did not get the vote this year there is still hope. The law is going in along with the law that passed requiring previous methamphetamine offenders to have a prescription before they purchase medicines containing pseudoephedrine. The law states that if there has not been a decrease for meth labs seized by the year 2019. Then the prescription-only law for all of Indiana will take effect in the year 2020. Making pseudoephedrine a prescription-only drug. Which is the hope, and the best way for Indiana’s Wabash Valley to gain control of the methamphetamine problems