BREWER – The last two slides of Steven Steiner Sr.’s photographic tribute to his son’s life showed the 19-year-old’s discolored, bloated body laid out on the floor of the young man’s Florida home.

Shocking, the crime scene photos serve as a disturbing reminder of the effects that prescription drug abuse can have on lives full of potential.

Titled “Memories of Stevie,” the slide show at the Brewer Auditorium on Saturday was part of the presentation that Steiner, of Tioga Center, N.Y., delivered during an anti-drug conference aimed at building support for Dads and Mad Moms Against Drug Dealers, or DAMMADD for short.

DAMMADD has established a toll-free number and developed a Web site to accept anonymous tips to help police get drug dealers off the streets.

The Brewer event drew more than 50 people, many of them law enforcement officers from as far away as Caribou and Washington County.

Steiner became an activist in the war against drugs after his son Stevie died from an overdose following heavy partying during Super Bowl weekend in January 2001.

The Saturday before the game, the younger Steiner and others at a party took Ecstasy and snorted OxyContin, a powerful prescription painkiller also known by its generic name, oxycodone. One pill is designed to last 12 hours, but when crushed and snorted or injected, it produces a quick, heroinlike high. Stevie was last seen alive asleep on a living room couch on Sunday. His body was found the next day.

Though the elder Steiner has told the story hundreds of times, he still gets choked up when talking about his son’s death.

“I don’t want to have those drug dealers getting to my other son,” Steiner said.

Steiner and his wife, Julie, are working to put DAMMADD into every school and community in the nation.

DAMMADD offers cash rewards ranging from $100 to $1,500 for information leading to arrests and convictions. More than 20 law enforcement agencies in eight states have teamed with the Steiners. As of Sunday, DAMMADD had passed on 606 tips leading to 21 arrests and 10 convictions. Rewards totaled $1,050.

On the Web site, established last May, people can leave tips about traffickers, kingpins, manufacturers and drug couriers. The group also fields tips about school violence and terrorism.

Detective Sgt. Perry Antone of the Brewer Police Department, the first agency in Maine to join DAMMADD, has become a firm believer in the program. He said earlier that information from the Web site played a role in a Maine Drug Enforcement Agency drug bust in March at a Brewer motel. The bust yielded five arrests and seizure of cocaine, heroin and a large quantity of prescription pills, as well as syringes and other drug paraphernalia.

Steven Barker, the city’s police chief, also supports the program: “You’ve made our job a lot easier here. … I hope this program expands.”

As expressions of appreciation for the Steiners’ work, U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe and U.S. Rep. John Baldacci sent letters that were read during the conference. The Brewer City Council presented a plaque.

On Saturday, Steiner told the story of his son and what led to his full-fledged crusade against drug dealers.

“I want you to meet my son, Stevie,” Steiner said as he introduced the slide show he put together and presents regularly to teen-agers, parents, educators and anyone else concerned about the nation’s growing drug problem.

The slides depict the younger Steiner’s journey from infancy to young adulthood, with stops at baseball and football games, school events, family gatherings and outings to the beach along the way.

Steiner spoke of the close relationships Stevie had with his family, including his kid brother, Joe, who is now 12. Shortly before he died, Stevie had moved to Florida, where he had found work as an electrician.

Until Stevie’s death, Steiner had never even heard of OxyContin. He acknowledged he was aware that his son was a “weekend warrior” who occasionally drank beer and smoked marijuana with his friends. Until he died, Steiner said, Stevie had stayed away from harder drugs. “Stevie was not into this heavy stuff,” Steiner said. “One time took his life.”

After Stevie’s death, Steiner became incensed about what he saw as indifference on the part of investigating officers, one of whom told him that drug overdoses were “no big deal” and happened all the time.

“I was appalled,” he said. Rather than accept the situation, Steiner turned his pain and anger into action. His persistence kept the investigation open. As the result of some new information, the investigation has been broadened.

Based on what he saw Friday night, when Antone took him along to watch patrol officers at work, Steiner said he considered police here more active than others he has encountered. The relatively small department’s philosophy is that the bulk of the crimes committed in the community are linked to drugs. To that end, officers have made it their mission to take drugs off the city streets.

Also during the conference, Eric Lutz of SOS Testing, a Pennsylvania security company, demonstrated the latest resource for parents, educators and others concerned about drug use. Drugwipe, which is activated by water and looks somewhat like a pregnancy test kit, can detect trace amounts of amphetamines, cocaine, cannabis and opiates.

SOS is collaborating with DAMMADD and others on a soon-to-be launched testing program called “Not on My Watch.” While specifics on the program weren’t available Saturday, Lutz said to watch the DAMMADD Web site for details within a month or so.

For more information on DAMMADD or to leave a tip, contact Dads and Mad Moms Against Drug Dealers at (866) 326-6233. The organization’s Web site is: www.dammadd.org.