- 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.
