- More teenagers are using Instagram, Snapchat and Tiktok to connect with drug dealers and unknowingly buying tainted pills (eg Pecocet, Xanax).
- Demand for pills skyrocketed during the pandemic in tandem with rising anxiety/depression and overall addiction.
- Drug dealers connect with teens on social media using coded emoji comments and hashtags.
- Tragically, more teens are overdosing on counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl.
- In response, Snapchat and Instagram have removed thousands of drug dealers accounts and display warnings or block results when users search for drugs.
Fentanyl Tainted Pills Cause Drug Fatalities Among Youth to Soar
(05/19/2022)