A federal government office tasked with warning TikTok users against buying fentanyl-laced drugs faces an obstacle to getting its message out to the public.
-laced drugs faces an obstacle to getting its message out to the public: a congressional ban on government employees using the social media app.Prevention Council to reach TikTok users with a warning about the dangers of counterfeit drugs sold on TikTok. The ban, enacted at the end of 2022, makes the partnership all the more important.
Drug dealers have converted Snapchat, TikTok, and other apps into an online marketplace for counterfeit, Mexican cartel-made fentanyl. NCPC and PTO teamed up in 2019 on a public awareness campaign to teach children and teenagers about counterfeit products available for sale on social media. “The National Crime Prevention Council utilizes a variety of social media platforms to help educate the public on a range of issues aimed at keeping people safe,” DelPonte wrote in an email Tuesday. “Awareness around lethal doses of fentanyl in fake pills is a major part of those efforts.”
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