The New West Network published a series in March-April 2005 about the impact of crystal meth on the small town of Kalispell, MT. A cycle of drugs, prositution, and criminal activities ensued allegedly centered around a prominent Kalispell businessman.

Yet the [...] story isn’t ultimately about prostitution, or at least not the simple sex-for-money transaction that people associate with the word. Rather it’s about the hunger of addiction - the meth user shooting up more often, with larger doses, trying dope made with different precursor chemicals, always hoping to duplicate that first wonderful rush. Or the businessman run off the rails by a raging obsession, by a need for power, or sex, or a combination of both [...]

• Part 1: Inside the World of the 'Dasen Girls'
• Part 2: A Mother's Worst Nightmare
• Part 3: A Pillar of the Community
• Part 4: 'Our Give-A-Shitters Were Broken'
• Part 5: The Scourge of Rural America
• Part 6: Crime and Punishment