Dealers use many social media platforms to sell drugs, but Snapchat’s encrypted technology and disappearing messages make it especially hard to catch them.
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vast majority of those deaths, 84%, involved fentanyl, according to the report released last week.
Still, Snapchat is the most common platform grieving families mention when they reach out to his group for help, DelPonte said. “The following morning I found him in his bed. The rest is craziness,” Amy Neville said. “After he passed away, we said, ‘How did this happen?’ We thought we were prepared.’”
The Drug Enforcement Administration has called fentanyl “the deadliest drug threat facing this country,” and administrator Anne Milgram has said social media apps are the “perfect drug delivery tool” in a speech where she also named platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
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