The Door County Sheriff’s Department may battle on the front line of the area’s growing drug abuse problem, but you will find the impact it has in the community down every hallway of the Door County Government Center in Sturgeon Bay. According to data from the Door County Sheriff’s Department, there have been 17 investigations executed so far this year in addition to almost 20 other incidents related to drugs during the first seven months of the year. Government officials such as Chief Deputy Pat McCarty, Door County Administrator Ken Pabich, and Door County Health and Human Services Department Director Joe Krebsbach have all acknowledged that drug abuse is a growing problem. For Krebsbach, it is a problem that affects his department in multiple different ways.

Krebsbach says with early intervention, it is less expensive for the county to be able to rehabilitate someone early on as opposed to just throwing them in jail. He will join a panel on Wednesday at Crossroads at Big Creek for a community forum to discuss rising drug use and addiction in Door County. You can find more details on the forum by clicking this link.