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[Photo] Shocking before and after photos show how drug addiction takes devastating toll on faces of users
Submitted by gaf on February 27, 2011 - 12:19
These shocking before and after images reveal in stark and simple terms the cost drug addiction takes on the human face.
'From Drugs to Mugs' is the follow up to the controversial 2004 'Faces of Meth' release which highlighted the effects of methamphetamine use.
Released in the hope that they will make kids think twice about ever touching drugs the pictures show how addicts have lost teeth and scratched their skin to the bone.
The new photographs show the first arrest of a drug user partnered up with a picture taken in some cases only three months later.
They have been put together by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office in Oregon and now include users of all hard drugs including cocaine, heroin and meth.
'Faces of Meth went round the world, it captured peoples revulsion and imagination,' said deputy Bret King, 45, who was instrumental in putting together the original Faces of Meth project in 2004.
'As I was putting together the project and touring the country trying to highlight the effects of meth on people, I had a nagging feeling that I knew I wasn't bringing the whole picture to people's attention.
'Every single person I booked and interviewed who was not just a meth addict but a heroin user or a coke-head had started on some seemingly innocent drug like alcohol or cannabis.
'Everyone experiments at college or school and I want From Drugs to Mugs to show kids that everyone in those pictures started on cannabis, they didn't just dive head first into heroin.
'So I ask the students at schools to look at these people and think about their actions, otherwise that could end up being you,' said deputy King.
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Shocking before and after photos taken 10 months apart show the toll drugs have taken on the face of a methamphetamine user.
From Drugs to Mugs is the follow up to the controversial 2004 Faces of Meth programme, which was also instigated by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office in Oregon.
A video made by the From Drugs to Mugs programme makers is going to be shown in high schools across the U.S. in attempt to dissuade students from trying drugs.
Deputy Bret King hopes the hard-hitting campaign featuring before and after photos and also a video featuring inmate's interviews will put high school students off experimenting with drugs.
The photographs of this methamphetamines user were taken three years apart, but some instances, there was a noticeable decline in as little as three months.
'I want to be able to illustrate the connection between that first decision to use drugs and then down the road when it's a horrible mess,' said deputy Bret King.
The photograph on the left was taken in January 2008 and the photograph on the right was taken in August 2008, showing how rapidly the drugs can take their toll.
'Everyone experiments at college or school and I want From Drugs to Mugs to show kids that everyone in those pictures started on cannabis, they didn't just dive head first into heroin,' said Deputy King.
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