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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 Kansas. At Drug Rehab Kansas we know that each individual is unique and are treated as such. Deciding upon a treatment option in Kansas, 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 Kansas. 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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Book explores Kansas meth industryKansas' burgeoning methamphetamine industry provides a backdrop of danger and rural intrigue for a new Kansas-based novel whose release today follows fresh concerns about the impact of meth on children and young people.
"The Skinning Tree" by Garnett newspaper publisher and author G. Dane Hicks tracks two bored teenage girls in a mythical small Kansas town through a subplot of their introduction to the drug and the subsequent destruction of one of their lives because of it. It's a theme that plays out in real life, according to Dave Hutchings, a Pittsburg-based Kansas Bureau of Investigation special agent.
"We see females starting (to use meth) younger than males," Hutchings said, with the age of male users generally running between 16 and 45. "Usually older males will use the drug for a connection to the females, and the females will then associate with the older males for a connection to the drug."
While use of the drug among younger teens is its own concern, a significant portion of the newest efforts to combat the drug's impact on the state of Kansas are centered on younger children who are exposed to the drug and its lifestyle in homes where their parents are users and producers.
At the Kansas Methamphetamine Prevention Project's state conference in September, the focus on protection for the children impacted by meth took on a central focus.
"I think law enforcement has been aware of it for a long time," said Cristi Cain, coordinator of the Kansas Methamphetamine Prevention Project. She said documentation of children connected to meth is problematic due to inconsistent record keeping among local law enforcement agencies, "but we've received lots of anecdotal information from law enforcement and other agencies about what happens to children because of their mothers using meth."
Cain said 80 children in Kansas were known to have been discovered in meth lab environments in 2002, compared to 36 so far in 2003. That's probably far beneath the real numbers, she said, but all local Kansas police and sheriff's departments in Kansas don't use the El Paso Intelligence Center system for documenting child care situations and other specifics of meth production or abuse incidents, which has been adopted by the KBI and federal Drug Enforcement Agency. The impact on those kids is usually the result of neglect by addict-parents consumed by the quest for the drug, Hutchings said, but the proximity of children to the caustic and sometimes volatile chemical environment of a home meth lab is often dangerous and disturbing.
"I've worked a lab where a woman spilled a lye solution on her 2-year-old boy and burned him," Hutchings said. Incidents have also been reported of toddlers ingesting methamphetamine from simple hand-to-mouth contact with furniture and other items in their homes, according to Cain.
In "The Skinning Tree," the character "Pammy" has already lost her children due to intervention from Kansas social services and her history of drug arrests, but she's drawn back into the degenerative lifestyle from fear of her ex-husband, a brutal distributor and "cooker" of the drug.
The fictional version develops into a mystery as a small town editor investigates the seemingly unrelated stories of a serial murderer and the curious and violent disappearance of the area's meth producers. In real-life Kansas, the presence of meth and the people involved in it is anything but vanishing.
Cain's statistics showed Kansas ranks fifth in the nation in number of meth labs seized, but ranked first in seizures per capita. Eighth-graders in rural areas are 104 percent more likely to use meth than those in urban areas, and the purity levels of meth produced in the state have been found to be generally higher than that of imported meth.
The statistics also show a preponderance of meth in economically challenged southeast Kansas, the home to the mythical town of Henrysville in "The Skinning Tree." While 23 of Kansas' 105 counties had no lab seizures from January through the end of August this year, Crawford and Cherokee counties combined for 59 separate lab busts - nearly double that of any other grouping of contiguous counties in the state.
Crawford and Cherokee counties have worked to counter that distinction by setting up Drug Endangered Children programs, a consortium of law enforcement, judicial and social service agencies that seek medical help for children who've been in contact with meth environments while pursuing child endangerment and criminal charges against their parents. The programs and the state meth prevention project supports legislation that would change child endangerment under Kansas statutes from a Class A misdemeanor to a Level 9 felony.
"Basically what we're looking at is adding time onto the sentence of someone who's endangering their child while they're manufacturing (meth)," Cain said.
Meanwhile, Kansas logged 728 lab seizures in 2002, down from 846 in 2001, though some question the data because of reporting inconsistencies. The Kansas numbers pale in comparison to Missouri, which saw 2,139 busts last year. While the efforts of law enforcement and service agencies continue to combat the meth in rural America and novels like "The Skinning Tree" prompt the issue into popular discourse, the problem proves to be anything but fiction.
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