The transactions are sometimes being arranged via social media to home-bound young people. In Los Angeles and small-town Minnesota, in famous families and blue-collar ones, a drug 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine is killing people at a historic rate during the COVID-19 pandemic. But, unlike the repercussions of posting an ill-advised video or regrettable comment on Snapchat, the consequences for teens buying pills through social media can be irreversible. The tragedy is part of a painful pattern that has repeated itself over the past year, spread by the immediacy and friction-free ease that teenagers expect in an age of on-demand apps. But the pill that the dealer delivered was packed with fentanyl, an opiate so powerful that Norring died shortly after taking it. The 19-year-old in Hastings, Minnesota, connected with a drug dealer on the social-media app last year and arranged to buy a prescription pain pill. One of the last acts in Devin Norring's short life took place on Snapchat.
Instagram blamed a technical bug for failing to remove dozens of flagged accounts promoting pills.Insider found two dozen fentanyl-related deaths in which Snapchat apparently played a role in the transaction.Drug dealers are using Snapchat and Instagram to find customers, despite rules against it.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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