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Drug Addiction Photos

Drug Addiction Photos. The negative effects of drug addiction!.

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Drug Addiction Photos

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  1. Drug Addiction Photos The negative effects of drug addiction!

  2. These mug shots and video point a very graphic and real picture of the consequences of wanting to be a "cool kid or chick".  Please have each of your young people view this to let them know exactly what the consequences are.  A picture is worth a thousand words.

  3. Everyone who is tempted to use drugs should see this. With disturbing before and after photos of drug users faces, a new anti-drug campaign may succeed where others have failed, grabbing teens attentions by appealing to their vanity.

  4. Mug Shots • The pairs of mug shots, which graphically display the damage drugs can do to the face, were collected by the sheriffs office in Multnomah County, Oregon. • Faces that were normal, even attractive in initial photos, shot when addicts were first arrested, metamorphose over years, and sometimes just months, into gaunt, pitted, even toothless wrecks. • The photos are part of a 48-minute documentary called From Drugs to Mugs created by Deputy Bret King. King hopes that the documentary, which is available on a DVD along with a CD of mug shots, will help scare kids straight by showing them concrete evidence of damage that can occur within months from using meth, heroin or cocaine. • Perhaps the most stunning feature of the photos is how quickly the face is damaged.

  5. Meth and Heroin • Meth, for example, can cause small blood vessels around the face to constrict, says A. Thomas McLellan, director of the Center for Substance Abuse Solutions at the University of Pennsylvania. • So consequently, the gums shrink as they do in old age, says McLellan, also former deputy director of the United States Office of National Drug Control Policy. The teeth that remain can become discolored and black. • Both meth and heroin are often cut with sugar, McLellan explains. And you get acne from oily or sweet things, so if you are injecting the sugar into your veins it's even more direct, he adds. • Other impurities can cause lumpy cysts on the face and other areas of the body, such as the armpits and groin, McLellan says.

  6. Facial Sores…secondary to Meth • As for the facial sores: Sometimes meth users will hallucinate and get the sensation that there are bugs crawling under their skin, Mooney says. Trying to get relief, they sometimes pick at their skin until there are open sores. • McLellan agrees that the short time to facial devastation may have a big impact on kids. Some of these photos show changes in less than six months, he says. This is the kind of time frame kids understand."

  7. Respectfully compiled by Dr. Ronald J. Farabaugh Chiropractic physician Columbus, OH 43231 614-898-0787 chironf@aol.com Please share this presentation with everyone you know, especially your children, or anyone you know on drugs!

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