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TexasTowelie

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Tue Oct 22, 2019, 05:16 AM Oct 2019

While millions are spent to fight the opioid epidemic, meth crisis quietly grows in Wisconsin [View all]

Jess Przybylski had never really dealt with loss. Then the father of her children was killed in a car crash. In 2011, her friends offered her methamphetamine to distract from the grief.

Soon after, Przybylski lost her job. Her two children were taken from her once, then once more when she was caught faking a drug test. A growing rap sheet eclipsed her college degree as she lost cars, relationships — and nearly her life.

“It was a one-time thing, and that was it,” Przybylski, who lives in Chippewa Falls in northwest Wisconsin, says of her meth addiction.

“It started out slow, but it was a pretty hard downward spiral for about five years … It gets to be where it just takes over your life and it's not fun anymore. It’s all you think about.”

Read more: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2019/10/21/millions-spent-fighting-opioid-epidemic-wisconsin-meth-crisis-grows/3986667002/

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