Narcotics investigators say Tennessee is flooded with cheap, potent meth smuggled from Mexican super labs resulting in an escalation of the already alarming death toll due to drugs in Tennessee.  Cocaine deaths, mostly concentrated in Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville, have increased by at least 20 percent annually, reaching 306 last year. Deaths involving meth and other stimulants, which are spread widely throughout the state, increased by at least 50 percent annually, peaking at 319.  In addition to the rising potency and availability of cartel drugs, the deaths caused by meth and cocaine are deeply intertwined with Tennessee’s ongoing opioid crisis, which killed at least 1,268 people in the state in 2017. FULL STORY HERE