Faces of Meth publishes information about methamphetamine — its health effects, its risks, and how to find treatment. This page explains how that information is produced, who is accountable for it, and the rules we hold ourselves to.

What this site is, and is not. Faces of Meth is an information and referral website. We are not a treatment provider, a medical practice, or a licensed clinical service. Nothing on this site is medical advice, and nothing here should replace examination by a qualified clinician.

Who writes this site

Articles are written and maintained by the Faces of Meth editorial team. We publish under a team byline rather than individual names. The editorial team is accountable for every claim on this site, and any error can be reported through our corrections policy.

How we research

We work from primary sources. In practice that means:

  • Peer-reviewed medical and dental literature (for example, the Journal of the American Dental Association)
  • US federal health agencies — NIDA, SAMHSA, the CDC, and the NIH
  • Professional bodies such as the American Dental Association
  • Government data sources for statistics, cited with the year of collection

We do not build articles from other treatment-marketing websites, content farms, forums, or unattributed statistics. Where a widely repeated claim is not supported by the evidence, we say so rather than repeating it — see our page on meth mouth for a worked example. Our full sourcing rules are on the how we source our information page.

Rules we hold ourselves to

  1. No outcome guarantees. We do not promise recovery rates, success rates, or satisfaction guarantees. Recovery outcomes vary enormously between individuals and nobody can honestly guarantee them.
  2. No unsourced statistics. Every figure is attributed to a named source with a date.
  3. No manufacturing or acquisition information. We do not publish synthesis routes, precursor information, purity testing methods, or sourcing information.
  4. Accuracy over shock value. This site uses confronting imagery, but the claims attached to that imagery must be defensible. We would rather lose the dramatic version of a fact than publish an inaccurate one.
  5. People first. We avoid language that reduces people to their drug use where clearer alternatives exist, and we do not present addiction as a moral failing.
  6. Help is always reachable. Every page that describes harm also points to how to get help.

Images on this site

The before-and-after and dental images on this site are AI-generated illustrations. They do not depict real, identifiable people and they are not clinical case photographs. They are labelled as such wherever they appear, with a full explanation on the meth mouth page. We consider undisclosed synthetic imagery on a health site to be a serious integrity problem, and we disclose ours prominently.

Review and updates

Health content is reviewed on a 12-month cycle, and sooner when new evidence, new guidance, or a reader correction warrants it. Pages carry the date they were last updated. Our standard for clinical review is set out in the medical review policy.

Commercial relationships

Faces of Meth receives compensation from treatment providers in connection with the helpline number displayed on this site. That relationship is disclosed in full on our advertising disclosure page, and it does not determine what we publish. Free, non-commercial alternatives are always listed alongside it: SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7) and FindTreatment.gov.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything we have published, can be sent through our contact page.