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We design personalized treatment programs to provide each abuser with the greatest chance of a successful recovery outcome. Our comprehensive networking system works hand in hand with all of the drug treatment centers in Wisconsin. At Drug Rehab Wisconsin we know that each individual is unique and are treated as such. Deciding upon a treatment option in Wisconsin, or anywhere can be a daunting task for any individual or family, we will guide you through each step of a comprehensive treatment plan for you or your loved one. We are determined in our mission, that every drug and/or alcohol abuser in Wisconsin. that has a desire to change their life will be given a chance to recover from their addiction and we are dedicated to ensuring that they are given the opportunity to do so.
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Wisconsin: Danger on the doorstepForget about Mexico and Colombia. Peddlers of a dangerous drug are on Price County's doorstep. And in the backyard. And next door, on both sides.
Wisconsin law enforcement officials say methamphetamine labs have been discovered in several neighboring counties - and it may only be a matter of time before the deadly trade spreads its dark roots under our borders.
A passion for poison
Methamphetamine is a powerful stimulant some people call ‘poor man's cocaine.' It is a strange broth of toxic chemicals - most of which are available over-the-counter at local stores.
Submitted Photo
Photos of a meth user (not Kelly) over a 10 year period.
Most folks squirm at the mere thought of ingesting meth - particularly after they learn what goes into it.
Drain opener, paint thinner, brake cleaner and methyl alcohol are among the ingredients and chemical agents so-called "cookers" use to make meth - which police say can be liquid, powder or crystal.
Users then smoke, inject, snort or eat it - and many of them lie, cheat and steal to get more of it.
"It has such strong addictive properties, people start stealing from their friends and families" in order to support their habits, Barron County Sheriff's Department Det. Jason Hagen said.
Effects on the body
"They stink," Hagen said of meth addicts. "Their skin turns yellow, teeth fall out. They let everything go."
But those are not the most dangerous side-effects of meth.
Federal anti-drug literature says meth users' body temperatures can rise to as high as 108 degrees.
Temperatures that high will either kill the user or cause severe damage to internal organs.
There are dozens of other maladies associated with using meth, and those don't include casualties associated with making the drug.
Barron County medical officials report treating burn victims who they suspect were injured on the job - at meth labs.
Phosphine, hydrogen chloride and other toxic gases have also stricken cookers and bystanders in the vicinities of their labs.
Meth in Price County, Wisconsin
Although there haven't been any meth lab busts in this county, there have been charges filed for possession of the drug.
Price County, Wisconsin Sheriff's Department Investigator Chris Jarosinski said there have been "approximately five" possession busts in the county this year. He suspects there may be far more meth activity going on under the radar screen.
One well publicized meth-related case involves Daniel Bacholl of Prentice, who is currently in a mental institution after allegedly shooting at a state trooper. He is charged with attempted first-degree reckless homicide, methamphetamine possession, and several other counts.
Chemical insanity
"I can spot them," Hagen said, "because they are so jittery. If someone drank four cups of coffee in four minutes, (the effect of meth) would be ten times more."
"Tweakers," as meth users are called, are likely to experience paranoia, hallucinations, dramatic mood swings, violent impulses and extreme sleep deprivation. The direct effects last as many as two weeks.
And the trouble may not stop there.
"With meth, severe mood disturbance and bizarre thoughts and behavior often last beyond the binge," a federal pamphlet warns. "These effects can last days, sometimes weeks, causing you to lose a grip on reality."
One doesn't have to travel far to find people who have gone toe-to-toe with the drug's demons.
At the Counseling and Development Center in downtown Phillips, counselor Mike Fuersten says he sees mostly alcohol and cocaine addictions. But he does see clients with meth histories - and he says it's a burgeoning problem.
"So far as we know it all comes in from the outside," he said. "From the west - that's where it's coming from. I'm surprised we haven't had a (lab)bust."
Rusk County, Wisconsin officials say they have found the remnants of two meth labs within their borders this year.
But further investigation reveals there is no one direction to point.
A newspaper in Taylor County reported Sept. 25 that a resident was convicted for his role in operating a meth lab in the Town of Maplehurst, just west of Medford.
Why here?
THE-BEE contacted law enforcement officials and drug councilors from all over northern Wisconsin.
They viewed the problem from somewhat different perspectives. But they all agreed on one key point - it is only a matter of time before meth production is found in Price County.
They say Price County, Wisconsin is fertile ground for a meth lab. The remoteness is perfect - cookers don't like neighbors who might report the acrid chemical stench.
Grab a clothespin
Meth is full of odiferous chemicals. But one of the main ingredients that gives meth labs a signature scent is anhydrous ammonia, a chemical farmers use as a fertilizer.
Anhydrous ammonia is another reason meth production has blossomed in rural states such as Wisconsin - it sits in tanks at farm supply stores throughout the Midwest.
All a cooker has to do is find an insecure anhydrous ammonia tank, and half the battle is won.
And even if anhydrous ammonia is unavailable, cookers can substitute with red phosphorous - by scraping the striking chalk off of matchbook covers.
Meth on Main Street
Heroin comes from poppy fields in Afghanistan. And cocaine starts its life on remote South American mountainsides. But the ingredients of meth are sitting on shelves in every town in America.
Including Phillips.
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, a BEE reporter went shopping in a half-dozen downtown shops. In 45 minutes, he had most of the raw materials and hardware necessary for meth production.
And that shopping list is long - a National Drug Intelligence Center release lists 32 products - mostly easy-to-come-by, household items - that meth's mad professors must obtain.
THE-BEE is withholding that list at the request of Price County officials, but law enforcers caution that the recipe is easy to obtain.
Retailers not informed
Many Phillips retailers, meanwhile, were not aware of the scourge - in spite of sheriff's department claims that "proactive measures" are being taken.
Jana Kozak of Johnson's Hardware said if someone had come in and purchased items consistent with meth production, she wouldn't have thought twice because she "wouldn't even have known what to look for."
Kozak was not alone. Clerks in four other Phillips stores had similar reactions when presented with a meth ingredient list.
"This is a small town," Joel Bushman of Dollar Discount said. "We sell a lot of those things."
And that is what people in the meth trade count on - small communities that don't suspect a thing.
The drug war comes home
There is a disturbing tone in Rusk County Sheriff Dean Meyer's voice when he talks about methamphetamine.
There is urgency in his voice. There is conviction, too. But above all, there is an authentic sense that something truly evil is threatening a way of life.
"Rural America has changed," he said recently from his office in Ladysmith. "That's for sure."
Meyer's job is to keep peace in this quiet, remote county. It is a job he says is getting more difficult every year - as methamphetamine spreads its tentacles further and further into heartland communities.
He said people in the meth underworld are uniquely fiendish - even when compared with people in other drug trades.
"Meth is such a mind-altering drug," he said, "that they look at their own friends differently - their wives, even their own children. One minute they're jolly and the next minute they think everybody's trying to steal their drugs."
He said more than any other drug, he sees meth as a catalyst for spouse and child abuse, theft and general mayhem.
And he said the problem is getting worse.
"(Meth use and related crime) are increasing," he said. "There's no doubt about that."
Part of the trouble is the clandestine nature of meth production.
Meyer said suspects in two meth cases his office is working on are being prosecuted in other jurisdictions - on possession charges. The meth in those cases was traced back to a basement and a shed at separate locations in Rusk County, where "materials recovered were consistent with meth production."
But production charges were not levied in the cases, he said, because the link is hard to prosecute.
"That's the kicker with methamphetamine," he said. "It's so easy to produce, to prove where it was made is difficult."
He said "cookers" can easily disassemble a lab and load the materials into a cooler or the trunk of a car and set up elsewhere on the same day.
The availability of those materials is the other problem.
"The only thing you have to steal is the anhydrous ammonia - everything else you can buy legally," he said.
Meyer does not want to see meth "overwhelm" his department, as he said is happening in counties west of Rusk County.
He said utilities workers are being trained to recognize signs of meth production in the field - so they can protect themselves and better inform law enforcement of possible meth-trade activities.
He also said school administrators have been advised of the problem, and that flyers were released to Rusk County retailers who sell materials that are used in meth production.
"People need to be active participants," he said, if they want to stem the tide of this menace.
The lions' den
In Rusk County, Wisconsin the tide comes from the west.
Barron County - which is less than an hour's drive from Price County - has recorded 12 meth lab busts this year, Det. Hagen said.
"Normally the places are run-down, because all they're concerned about is the drug," he said. "I've seen garbage in the yards, lawns not mowed, chemical jugs lying around."
But those things are just material. The real tragedy, he said, is when cookers turn their backs on their families.
He said he has seen hungry, dirty children. And he said in one case, a cooker set up in his elderly mother's basement.
The mother never knew about the danger brewing there, because she was too frail to go down the steps.
He said landlords should keep close tabs on what goes on at their properties, because they may be responsible for clean-up costs and a hazardous materials stamp may be placed on the property title.
And while Barron County keeps one eye on the supply side of the meth equation, the other focuses on users.
Hagen said the number of meth seizures has topped marijuana seizures so far this year. And he said there are direct links between meth use and other crimes - especially theft.
"I would say 80 percent of our burglaries are meth-related," he said.
Tweakers target antiques, power tools, guns and four-wheelers because they can move them quickly, he said, "for pennies on the dollar."
Little towns, huge problem
All the social problems associated with meth add up to big trouble for small-town America.
Part of the hurdle, Hagen said, is that federal drug enforcement agencies primarily target "urban drugs" such as cocaine and heroin.
And when small-town and country folks think about narcotics cops, they may picture Miami Vice, N.Y.P.D. Blue and other made-up warriors in far-away concrete jungles.
But Hagen is up to his neck in the fight against hard drugs, and his office is in Barron, Wisconsin - population 1,014.
He said America needs to wake up and smell the anhydrous ammonia. The problems are real, and they're more widespread than people might think.
"Meth is a rural drug," he said. "And because it's a rural problem, I don't think it gets the attention it deserves."
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