--- title: Recovery.org Shows Faces on Meth, Marijuana, DUI Mugshot Composite description: As told by GIFs canonical: https://time.com/30942/these-photos-show-what-the-average-person-who-is-arrested-for-drugs-looks-like/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-20T14:27:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:58.100Z og:title: This Is What the Average Person Who Does Drugs Looks Like og:description: As told by photos and GIFs og:url: https://time.com/30942/these-photos-show-what-the-average-person-who-is-arrested-for-drugs-looks-like/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is What the Average Person Who Does Drugs Looks Like twitter:description: As told by photos and GIFs twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Photos Show What the Average Person Who Is Arrested for Drugs Looks Like by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 20, 2014 2:27 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 20, 2014 2:27 PM UTC In an effort to increase substance abuse awareness, [Recovery.org](http://Recovery.org) decided to compile 100 mugshots from marijuana, DUI, and methamphetamine arrests to see what the average face looks like on drugs. “While it is unlikely that a user’s basic facial structure depends on the substance they were arrested for, the goal of this project is to expose the effects certain substances might have on a user’s appearance,” [the website reads.](http://www.recovery.org/learn/average-faces-of-drug-abuse/#.Uyr1bP0aCDo) And what better way to illustrate that than through gifs? According to [Recovery.org](http://Recovery.org), marijuana users tend to have rounder features and a full face, meth users appear gaunt with sagging skin and sunken eyes, and DUI arrestees look … pretty normal. Here’s a larger version of the final results: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/30942/these-photos-show-what-the-average-person-who-is-arrested-for-drugs-looks-like/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/30942/these-photos-show-what-the-average-person-who-is-arrested-for-drugs-looks-like/"},"headline":"These Photos Show What the Average Person Who Is Arrested for Drugs Looks Like","datePublished":"2014-03-20T14:27:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:58.100Z","description":"As told by GIFs","url":"https://time.com/30942/these-photos-show-what-the-average-person-who-is-arrested-for-drugs-looks-like/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Marijuana","Internet","Drugs","dui","Face"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/30942/these-photos-show-what-the-average-person-who-is-arrested-for-drugs-looks-like/","name":"These Photos Show What the Average Person Who Is Arrested for Drugs Looks Like"}}]}] ```