(KLZA)-- Following a morning program to present information to Falls City Middle school students and staff on Tuesday, a recently formed coalition met at the Richardson County Law Enforcement Center to discuss how the coalition could help the local fight against drugs and how local authorities could help the coalition.

Emily Murray with the Drug Enforcement Administration told MSC News that in January, representatives from the DEA, U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Nebraska, the Nebraska State Patrol, the FBI and the Nebraska Attorney General's Office got together to form a coalition which is the first of its kind in Nebraska to push back against the drug problem and the spread of methamphetamine use in the state.

The groups are working together with local law enforcement to share information and work together on investigations.

Murray says that no area, including rural America is insulated from the current drug problems. In 2021 nearly 768 pound of meth was recovered by law enforcement agencies in Nebraska. One user amount is considered to be 1/16th of a gram.

An example of how much that is, if you divided the meth recovered in last year, for the 90 thousand seats at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, that amount of meth would mean there would be 65 doses for each seat. That amounts to 5,850,000 doses.

The coalition is spending two weeks going across Nebraska visiting with local law enforcement to share information and ideas and see how to pool resources to push back against the drug threat..

Murray said that major highways such as Interstate 29, I-80, and Highway 75 are some of the main routes used to transport drugs in the U.S.