As South Dakota officials attract national attention for their anti-meth campaign, the drug is a growing problem in Iowa as well. Dale Woolery of the Iowa Governor’s Office on Drug Control Policy says More than 10-thousand Iowans were in a substance abuse treatment program, trying to kick an addiction to meth, in the last state fiscal year. That’s an all-time high. One meth-related trend has subsided, however, as there are few “meth lab” busts in Iowa these days. But Woolery says larger quantities of more potent meth are being smuggled into Iowa.

Mexico is the number one point of origin for the meth that’s being sold illegally in Iowa today, according to Woolery.