A new study shows meth is still the drug of choice in rural Minnesota. Marnie Werner with the Center for Rural Policy and Development says
over the last decade meth has gone from being produced locally in an abandoned farm building to be mass produced in Mexico and smuggled in:

In 2016 alone nearly eight-thousand people in outstate Minnesota sought treatment for meth addiction, a 25-percent increase over the year before and almost twice as many as in the Twin Cities.