Before & After Drugs: Shocking Infographic
Meth has an astounding destructive power. It can take away everything. View the real life devastation it can cause in this shocking infographic.
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Before & After Drugs: Transformation Video
Over time, meth abuse can transform a person's face and body. This video shows the impact years of abuse have in seconds.
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Legally Dead: Understanding The Prescription Drug Epidemic
Learn about this surprising epidemic that is sweeping the country. Help raise awareness by embedding an interactive pill bottle on your site.
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Visualizing The Drug Economy [in 3D]
The impact of drug use and abuse is shocking. To visualize how large the influence of drugs are, we've created a 3-D, interactive and immersive visualization.
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Dying to be Barbie | Eating Disorders in Pursuit of the Impossible
This shocking research and Infographic look at how the pursuit of a 'Barbie' body is impossible and how such a pursuit is taking its toll on women.
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Drug Bless America: How Illicit Drugs are Killing The Country
This enlightening interactive infographic shows how the capitalistic, consumption-driven U.S. economy is the largest buyer of illicit drugs in the entire world.
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Busted: Analyzing America's Most Recent Drug Hauls
What can narcotics seizures tell us about the American drug landscape as it exists right now?
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Your Face on Meth
The physical impact of drugs like meth is incredible. This new application can show you what you might look like after years of meth abuse.
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Before and After Recovery
We've shown you what havoc drugs can have on a person's appearance. Thankfully, recovery and sobriety often lead to physical changes in the right direction.
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More Than Meth: Faces of Drug Arrests
In an update to our Faces of Meth campaign, we look at the physical transformation of individuals arrested over time for drug related crimes.
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The Growing Male Body
Here we look at male body weight and anxieties over the past 100 years. We explore weight issues and disorders among the less talked about male population.
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College Drugs Parallax
An interactive parallax walkthrough that highlights some of the alarming stats about the use and abuse of drugs an alcohol on college campuses.
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Drugs on Campus
In-depth research, designed to illuminate the drug and alcohol arrest data published yearly by college campuses around the country.
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Visualizing Drug Experiences
Data analysis that examines the self-reported experiences of people who have used various drugs. We examine the words most used to describe each experience in aggregate.
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Women's Body Image and BMI
From Marilyn Monroe to Kate Moss, the body shapes of the most admired models have remained consistently slimmer than that of the average American woman, representing a nearly impossible ideal..
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Live Drug Use Map
These live snapshots show how often Americans engage in drug and alcohol activities in each state and see how your home state compares.
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Drugs on Campus Special Report
A follow up to our original Drugs on Campus research, this project analyzes recently released data from the Office of Postsecondary Education.
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Drugs on Campus Special Report
This project takes an in-depth look at drinking and drugging habits at The University of Iowa, America's number one party school.
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How addiction affects friends and family
This project explores the consequences addiction has on family members of addicts through a textual analysis of addiction-related message boards.
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Your Face as an Alcoholic
A follow up to our 'Your Face on Meth' web app, this app allows users to visualize what they would look like as an alcoholic.
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Faces of Addiction
Drug addiction ravages the addict's appearance. Using arrest mugshots we explore the shocking extent of the deterioration.
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Urban Rehabilitations
This campaign uses Google Street View to explore once drug-affected areas that have now cleaned up their act.
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Average Face of Pro- and Anti-Marijuana Politicians
Legal approaches to marijuana use have become a contentious topic in recent years, with politicians siding for or against legalizing the use of marijuana recreationally. We looked at the faces of governors, senators, and representatives to determine the average face of each stance.
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Congressional Attention vs. The Reality of Drug Abuse
Political interest in controversial subjects often rises and falls from year to year, including the attention given to the problem of substance abuse. But as we’ve found, Congress is frequently out of step with the reality of Americans’ struggles with addiction.
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The State of Treatment in America Rehabs and Drug Rehab Referrals
In a nation rife with drug and alcohol abuse, there’s a substantial demand for services treating substance dependence and addiction. Using data from the 2013 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services, we’ve charted who’s seeking treatment, which centers provide treatment for various substance problems, and where their substance abuse clients are concentrated across the country.
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Uncovering the Afghan Opium Scourge
Afghanistan has been the world’s primary source of opium for decades. This project takes an in-depth look at how the US-led NATO invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 has dramatically increased opium production and distribution leading to devastating effects worldwide.
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America By Drug Arrests
These animated graphics depict the drug landscape by showcasing drug arrests by state.
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Visualizing the Drug Economy
This interactive, 3D experience depicts the staggering economic impact of drugs by comparing figures to common visual points of reference.
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How Will It All End?
A popular AMC show, Breaking Bad, depicted the drug war from the perspective of a meth manufacturer. To raise funds for DrugFree.org we offered up a system for fans to cast their votes on how the season would end.
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Imagining an America Where Money is Not Spent on Drugs
It may be difficult to imagine, but what if there was no such thing as a drug abuse problem in America? Where would the money be getting spent? We've assessed the amount of money that is spent on various substance abuse programs, including health care, treatment facilities, and criminal justice and the results may surprise you.
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