A new state bill aims to help snuff out the problem of Methamphetamine.

But some say it's not doing enough to stop the real root of the problem.

Wednesday, the state Senate passed a bill, blocking some drug offenders from purchasing cold medications used to make meth for five years.

However, the bill isn't getting a "thumbs-up" from many folks in drug task force agencies.

In January of 2009, 41 meth labs were found in Kentucky.

Fast forward to this past January, that number "jumped" by 30 to 71.

Tommy Loving of the Bowling Green-Warren County Drug Task Force points to these numbers as a prime reason that "Senate Bill 211" likely won't be very effective in the "war on meth" in Kentucky.

"We're actually, basically opposed to that bill. We refer to it as the "industry bill"," says Loving.

Under the bill passed by the Senate, certain drug offenders would be blocked for five years from purchasing cold medicines commonly used in making meth.

Those medicines contain ephedrine or pseudo-ephedrine, which are an essential ingredient in making the illicit drug.

But Tommy Loving says the bill won't put a crimp in how meth manufacturers get "Sudafed".

"Because when you get out of jail, just as meth cooks and meth dealers are doing right now to get the "Sudafed", they'll pay individuals $50 and $70 to go in and buy the "Sudafed' for them.

"Recently we had somebody that had been approached by somebody from their past who was asking them to buy pseudo-ephedrine for them and they would pay them to get it for them," says Joni Furlong, Executive Director of Phoenix House.

The transitional living space for recovering female drug addicts director says the focus should be more on rehabilitating these offenders than blocking access to "Sudafed".

Loving has his own ideas as well.

By making "Sudafed", pseudo-ephedrine products a prescription drug.

He says rather than providing a bill which caters to the pharmaceutical companies, the bill the Kentucky Narcotics Officer's Association supports will stop the problem at its root like it did in Oregon.

Several years ago, Oregon implemented a similar law making "Sudafed" only available with a prescription and saw its meth lab numbers drop to as low as 10 in 2009.

Loving says lawmakers need to stop looking at what best for pharmaceutical companies and start seeing how to stop a growing problem.

"We feel like its a profit-driven thing for them and a public safety issue for us," notes Loving.

The House also passed a similar bill today that will cut the amount of cold medicines containing ephedrine and pseudo-ephedrine, you can get monthly from 9 grams to 7 1/2 grams.