Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/USA Today Network: Seeing Wisconsin's rural drug addiction crisis through the eyes of a childhood friend in our hometown
It was bone cold, and fog had settled across much of Sauk County. The sheriff’s department SUV wound its way deeper into the winter night. Every now and then an oncoming vehicle passed, a hazy glow emerging from the fog, then disappearing again.
I sat there in the darkness, talking with my childhood friend about drugs.
“Every area has a problem house,” Sauk County Sheriff’s Deputy Kyle Mueller said at one point as we drove through the night, surrounded by rolling fields and dark woods and the occasional house tucked in against the snow. “There’s no area that’s exempt.”