MAPP-SD, a project of Prairie View Prevention Services, Inc., is a comprehensive Methamphetamine awareness and prevention project. 
MAPP-SD is dedicated to:
u   Increase awareness of Meth and the problems associated with its use, manufacture and distribution;
u Provide, at no cost, professional Meth awareness and prevention education to groups and organizations on a community, regional and statewide level;
u Be a no-cost, ongoing resource for South Dakota citizens to deal with issues rising from the manufacture, use and distribution of Meth.

A bill that proposes to limit the purchase of drugs used to make methamphetamine across the nation passed the U.S. Senate on September 15. Such a nationwide law would discourage people from traveling over state lines to buy ingredients to make methamphetamine.


The Combat Meth Act would restrict the sale of pseudoephedrine products nationwide by requiring retailers to keep the drugs behind pharmacy counters. If passed by the House of Representatives, it would also restrict the sale of pseudoephedrine to 7.5 grams per month, about 250 30-milligram tablets.

The act is part of the Commerce Justice Science appropriations bill and must be approved by the House before it can be signed into law by the president.  The act also provides at least $18-million for child services, law enforcement and addiction treatment.  $13-million would be allocated for methamphetamine treatment and the creation of a national methamphetamine treatment center that would research effective treatments.  An additional $5 million would be designated for Drug Endangered Children.

A summary of the Combat Meth Act includes:
 
Combat Meth Act of 2005 - Authorizes funds to provide training to State and local prosecutors and law enforcement agents for investigation and prosecution of methamphetamine offenses, including a set-aside for prosecutors and law enforcement agents for rural communities.

Amends: (1) the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the public safety and community policing grant program to authorize the use of grant funds to hire personnel and purchase equipment to assist in enforcing and prosecuting methamphetamine offenses and in cleaning up methamphetamine-affected areas; (2) the Controlled Substances Act to add pseudoephedrine to schedule V; and (3) the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants for the development of drug endangered children rapid response teams and grants to local governments, Indian tribes, and nonprofit private entities to provide treatment for methamphetamine abuse.

Directs the Attorney General to allocate funds for the hiring and training of special assistant U.S. attorneys. Authorizes the Attorney General, acting through the Bureau of Justice Assistance, to award grants to States to establish methamphetamine precursor monitoring programs.

Read the entire bill at THOMAS, a Library of Congress site.

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