In his position as a jail deputy, Bret King of Multnomah County, Oregon was familiar with the chilling, psychotic behavior of meth users. It was in reviewing a particular inmate's past behaviors through file documentation that King discovered what meth can do to a user's face.
To his horror, he observed the ravaging and unflattering effects to the face from meth use over years, months and sometimes, even weeks. Jail Deputy King saw 20 year olds where youth had vanished, leaving skeletal faces, and he started a collection of what he calls the 'Faces Of Meth'. The collection of mug shots became a vivid and shocking graphic presentation of self-destruction ... the hell of meth, in all its grit.
The Faces of Meth Collection is sometimes included in antidrug campaigns, such as in the controversial Montana Meth Project. There is some concern among communities that are following the results of the Montana Meth Project that a campaign that shows meth in all its grit is too graphic. Being the mother of a recovering addict (Sarahjoy is now over two years clean), I believe that there isn’t a photo that can be shown or story that can be told that too graphically reveals this drug’s horror upon our children. In all its grit isn’t enough when it is your child.
The goal of the creators of the Montana Meth Project was:
To his horror, he observed the ravaging and unflattering effects to the face from meth use over years, months and sometimes, even weeks. Jail Deputy King saw 20 year olds where youth had vanished, leaving skeletal faces, and he started a collection of what he calls the 'Faces Of Meth'. The collection of mug shots became a vivid and shocking graphic presentation of self-destruction ... the hell of meth, in all its grit.
The Faces of Meth Collection is sometimes included in antidrug campaigns, such as in the controversial Montana Meth Project. There is some concern among communities that are following the results of the Montana Meth Project that a campaign that shows meth in all its grit is too graphic. Being the mother of a recovering addict (Sarahjoy is now over two years clean), I believe that there isn’t a photo that can be shown or story that can be told that too graphically reveals this drug’s horror upon our children. In all its grit isn’t enough when it is your child.
The goal of the creators of the Montana Meth Project was:
to show what meth does to families,
the violence, the stealing, and the tendency
for younger siblings to follow older siblings into addiction.
The project consists of a graphic ad campaign that shocks teens away from drugs. The project is unselling meth and it seems to be working. They report the program in Montana demonstrated significant results in changing attitudes and behaviors toward meth since its inception in 2005 where 93 percent of teens now see great risk in trying the drug. Meth deteriorates the user’s body and the user’s family. Further, meth addiction deteriorates our communities, as the addict's escalating meth use evolves to include ever increasing crime activities to pay for his drug use. I think our communities have found an extremely effective tool in the Faces Of Meth as part of a successful antidrug campaign. I believe this Multnomah County, Oregon Jail Deputy's efforts help my friends and neighbors so their children might avoid the hell of meth. Click For Faces Of Meth .
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