Is the "poor, white man's crack" poised for a comeback?

When a new law took effect in 2006 restricting sales of pseudoephedrine, the common cold medicine used to make methamphetamine, meth lab seizures declined in North Carolina by about 40 percent. Those statistics haven't changed much since.

"We are holding steady at this point," said state Attorney General Roy Cooper, who described the methamphetamine problem as an "epidemic" in early 2004. "Obviously North Carolina continues to grow in population, and any lab is one meth lab too many."

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