For plastic surgeons, before and after photos are an effective tool for documenting the benefits of cosmetic procedures. But police in California are using the same type of pictures in a different manner; they’re documenting the risks of methamphetamine use.
Using software developed right here in the San Francisco area, police officers are educating young people about the extreme premature aging caused by drug use. For those concerned at all about their appearance, the program could make a considerable impact.
ABC News reports on the program, appropriately called “Face2Face.”
The program takes one step further the anti-meth campaigns instituted in several states that use before and after photographs of real meth addicts to show how the drug ravages not only a person’s health, but also their looks.
