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Son's reliance on meth has Illinois mother scrambling to remain a part of his lifeThe smell of coffee drifted from the kitchen in the house where Charie Stone lives now.
A little more than a year ago, making coffee was a chore for the 41-year-old single mother. She would wake up in the morning and rummage through her cabinets looking for her coffee filters, but they were gone. Pretty soon the light bulbs began disappearing. She would flip the switch on her back porch - nothing. She would stumble down to the basement to do laundry, flip the switch - nothing.
It wasn't until later she realized her then 14-year-old son was a tweaker.
Coffee filters are commonly used in the production of crystal methamphetamine. A light bulb is paraphernalia; all you have to do is break around the metal ring, remove the filament and voila, you've got a meth, crack or heroin pipe.
Her next clue was the smell. Illinois police said a major indication that meth is being cooked is the smell of the mixed chemicals. In the 15 years she has worked as a nurse, Stone has never smelled anything so foul.
"I've smelled death, I've smelled cancer, and it's worse than that," Stone said.
Stone doesn't know why her son started using methamphetamine or where he learned how to do it, but what she does know is he became a completely changed person.
"His personality changed," she said. "He was irritable, lying and going into his bedroom and hiding stuff and hanging out with older people."
She walked from the coffee maker and sat at the small, two-seat kitchen table. There she had placed two pictures of her son in his younger, nonaddicted years. As she looked at them, she started to cry.
She isn't perfect - she'll admit that. As a single mother, she spent a lot of time away from home, working at a Peoria, Illinois nursing home trying to make ends meet. As a child of the '60s, Stone said she smoked her share of marijuana, but this is something different. It's something she thinks is much more dangerous.
"I feel like he's dead, I just haven't buried him, and at 15, I think it's sad."
She said he swore he wasn't making meth in her former house at 5603 Hi Vue Lane in Bellevue, Illinois but the scent of anhydrous ammonia mixed with a hodge-podge of dangerous ingredients was everywhere - in the garage, in the sink and in the air.
Once, as he was coming down from a high, Stone's son punched a hole in the wall of their home.
The drug problems became too difficult for Stone to handle. She gave up legal custody to his 88-year-old great-grandmother in Peoria, Illinois in September 2002. But he still spent time with his mother.
Tweakers, a nickname for meth users, become very irritable when they aren't stoned. Users are characterized by their ability to stay awake for extremely long periods of time, weight loss and open sores on their bodies, according to Pekin, Illinois Deputy Police Chief Ted Miller.
This was her bright young boy, putting his fist through walls. This was her son who won a first-place prize for designing a poster in Norwood Elementary School's Drug Abuse Resistance Education program. This was her child, 15 years old and tweaking.
The snowball effect
Meth wasn't an Illinois problem until the late '90s. Its simple production made the proliferation of the drug easy.
"You have an individual or a couple of individuals who learn the skill out of state," Miller said. "Those cooks taught other cooks."
In 1999, three labs were seized by the Multi-County Narcotics Enforcement Group, which covers Knox, Illinois; Peoria, Illinois; Tazewell, Illinois; Stark, Illinois and Marshall, Illinois counties. From that year on, the numbers steadily increased. In 2002, 76 labs were seized.
"We're seeing a lot of this being made for consumption by whoever the cooker is and their friends," said MEG Director Larry Hawkins. "With crack you have to start out with a narcotic. This, you're just making the dope from scratch."
Mike Spokely, chief of the juvenile division in the Peoria County, Illinois State's Attorney's Office, said there just hasn't been an excessive meth boom in juveniles.
"We've maybe charged one or two total for possession," Spokely said. "I don't want to say that we don't have a problem. I believe there is probably a problem, but nothing to the extent that Tazewell has."
Tazewell County, Illinois State's Attorney Stewart Umholtz said, "We don't see any trends toward younger offenders, but one young offender is too many."
Meth is usually a problem "in an area that has a lot of agriculture, the same type of diverse population we have here," since anhydrous ammonia is a main ingredient for the drug, Umholtz said.
The arrest
Stone told her son if she ever caught him with it, she would have him arrested. She followed through on her threat.
On May 15, Stone called the Peoria County, Illinois Sheriff's Department after a spat with her son. She shooed him away from the house, but he left a backpack containing coffee filters, a light bulb and 42 grams of meth. It's what Illinois police later described as a "portion of a meth lab."
The Peoria, Illinois Police Department was contacted to detain Stone's son at his great-grandmother's house in Peoria, Illinois. There, Illinois police discovered a small piece of paper containing an orange substance. A field test revealed it was meth.
Her son was arrested and booked on charges of manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and domestic battery for throwing a garbage can at his mother.
Stone had faced an excruciating dilemma: She could either do nothing and enable his habit, or call the cops. She chose the latter, but it wasn't easy.
"Grandma thinks (he) could do no wrong," she said. "I was seen as the enemy."
His great-grandmother refused to be interviewed.
For a fed-up Stone, getting her son away from old friends at Bellevue, Illinois and into a different high school had seemed like a good remedy for him last year, so she didn't contest her grandmother's request for custody of her son.
But since then, he's dropped out of high school, and Stone said he occasionally takes the bus to Bellevue, Illinois. Sometimes he would call looking for a ride there, but Stone would refuse.
She gave up all she had - her son, and her Bellevue home with that horrible smell. She moved to get away from the drugs.
She sees her son and the potential he has wasted. She thought it would be a miracle if he got clean. She fears he's lost all hope.
"I asked him what he thought he was going to do, and he said, 'What's the purpose?'"
He was sentenced to probation through the Peoria County, Illinois juvenile system, Spokely said. Conditions of his probation included a mandatory drug test that Stone said he hasn't been doing.
"I know that he hasn't been to his drops (drug test), and they're supposed to be picking him up," she said.
Spokely said no official violation of probation has been filed, but if the teenager really is ignoring the terms of his probation, then it's only a matter of time before he's picked up.
Stone moved to a friend and co-worker's house in Peoria Heights, Illinois in August to get away from Bellevue, Illinois her problems and her bad memories.
Her roommate, a longtime friend, recalled the way Stone would throw birthday parties for her son and the kids in her Bellevue, Illinois neighborhood. Some of those kids fell into the same trouble as Stone's son.
"She was a good mom to (him), and it's sad to see these kids now," her roommate said.
A missing child
Stone whipped her compact red station wagon into her front yard. She stormed out of the car. She was furious.
It was Oct. 21. For almost a week her son has been missing. Stone spent the first half of the day at her grandmother's house cleaning out the basement. Apparently her son's welcome at Grandma's house was slowly being worn out.
"She hadn't seen him in a couple of days," Stone said. "I think she's realized what's going on now because he's packed his stuff and left."
She suspected he had moved to a friend's house in Bellevue, Illinois.
He turned up about a week later.
A sad reality for Stone was that she was getting good at knowing where meth has been. She thought Grandma's basement was a cooking spot.
In the basement Stone found a hot plate, a canister of kerosene, various chemicals, a fan for ventilation and some light-bulb paraphernalia.
"I want to try to keep it away from her," Stone said. "I just want him to get in trouble. I want him to go down."
Stone said she thought she was going to take the items to the Illinois police, but she didn't. She was sad, tired, angry and fed up. She didn't know how much longer she could keep this up.
"I've gone to counseling," Stone said. She began to cry. "I was freaking out, and I was suicidal."
She thought if she didn't think about it or talk about it, then maybe her pain would go away.
"It just takes so much of your energy," she said.
But as much as Stone tried to put it all aside, she is still surrounded by the reminders of a kid that used to be her bright young boy.
On each of the four walls are photographs that remind her of the son she once understood.
"All of my pictures of happy times," she called them.
Rehab/detox
Stone tried to get help for her son, she just couldn't get him into a place where he would be contained during treatment. She also didn't have the money and her job doesn't provide health insurance.
"Everything in here is insurance or private pay," said Bob Stenander, corporate service director at the Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery at Proctor Hospital.
Treatment centers average about $75 to $100 per day, Spokely said. But the decision to get help is ultimately the user's.
David Moore, adolescent counselor for White Oaks Companies, said the easy part for a person like Stone is to bring the kid in and check him in. It's getting him to stick around that's difficult.
"She could go with him and sign him in, but he could walk out," Moore said.
Spokely said part of Stone's son's probation could have included a stint at White Oaks partially supplemented by the county. "Right now is his opportunity to do that," Spokely said. And if Stone's son doesn't show, "we just file probation revocation. The kid gets the opportunity to succeed or not."
Most local Illinois facilities offer long-term treatment and detoxification programs tailored to specific addictions.
Moore and Stenander both have witnessed the perils of meth addiction first hand.
The openness of most detox facilities means a long-term commitment from the user is required for the treatment to work. Moore said that could even mean getting the police involved.
"Parents get to a place where they are exasperated, and they want things fixed immediately," Moore said. "There's not an immediate fix or cure."
The end
Driving down the road Nov. 4, Stone was talking on her cell phone. Her attention for the past few weeks has been slightly diverted from her son. This was her life without her son. This was her trying to move on.
She hadn't worked in weeks because of a recent surgery and most of her focus was on getting back to nursing.
Her son had returned to Grandma's house, but his length of stay was always schizophrenic - there one day, gone the next.
"He comes around Grandma's every now and then," she said. "I've talked to him on the phone."
He's as OK as a meth-kid can be, she guessed.
"I really, really think there's a lot left in him, and I wish he would realize that, too," she said. "I think what scares me the most is the idea of burying my child. It's what parents fear - to outlive their kids."
She said she was beginning to think about attending Families Anonymous meetings, but she wasn't sure she wanted to talk about it anymore.
"Maybe I'll give it a try," she said. "I don't know if I'm in the mood to sit around and talk about anything."
She said she loves her son - always will - but as long as drugs are a part of his life, they will have problems.
"I will always be there if he needs me, as long as he doesn't want to do meth," she said.
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