Carterville, Ill. - Hours after launching an anti-methamphetamine advertising campaign Tuesday in St. Louis, federal drug czar Gil Kerlikowske joined Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and other officials for a meth roundtable at John A. Logan College.

The $9 million media blitz will target the states with the worst meth problems - Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky and Nebraska in the Midwest. Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico also will be targeted.

"When meth first reared its head across the nation, Washington D.C. didn't listen to the problem," Kerlikowske said. "Meth is still lower than other drugs, but if you're in a small town devastated by meth, you don't give a darn about the national numbers."

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