Keeping kids off of drugs is high on the agenda for many adults.   
There are hundreds if not thousands of statistics regarding drug use.   
 From national estimates to specific age groups, one can find a myriad
of alarming information when it comes to teens and tweens experimenting
and/or addicted to drugs.  From scare tactics to education, there are several
ideas on how to best accomplish this.  We try to teach our children, students
and friends why experimenting with drugs is so dangerous, but many of
these tactics don't work.  Kids just don't seem to be able to see the danger
they are up against when it comes to drug use.

Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, thinks he may have come up with
something that will at least, give kids something to think about
before they experiment with meth.  Crime statistics and scare tactics
haven't worked in the past, so he is trying a new approach; striking
at their vanity.  Allman's idea was to actually shows kids the
physical detriment of methamphetamine addiction.  Face2Face, or Face
On Meth as it is often called, is a software program designed to take
a photo of the healthy child and morph it into the face of one who has
taken meth for six months up to 3 years.  It is one thing to explain
to someone about hair loss, sunken eyes and open, festering sores but
it is quite another to showcase it.  Allman seems to have touched on
something that kids can finally respond to, he says some kids even
start crying when they see their own image altered in such ways.

Knowing that scare tactics haven't worked in the past, Allman hopes
that Face2Face will stop first time meth use.