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St. Louis Company May Have Answer To Ending Meth Labs

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Not many of us are chemists.

Yet by removing one oxygen atom, average people in Missouri regularly are turning common decongestants like Sudafed and Claritin-D into the illicit drug methamphetamine. Nationwide those explosive mom and pop meth labs cost taxpayers more than $23 billion a year in health care costs, child endangerment and clean-up. 

But a St. Louis pharmaceutical company may have the answer.

Learn more here.

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