Counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl, sold via social media sites, are killing young people. Here's how parents, advocates and social media companies are trying to tackle the problem:
TikTok, Reddit and Twitter have said they’ll distribute the information and warnings in the campaign as well. These sites also have policies for reporting and removing illegal content but did not provide specific details about how much drug-related content they remove.Many parents say the steps social media companies are taking don’t go far enough.
“What we need to do is get the social media companies, law enforcement, the DEA, all sitting at a table and saying all of us are in this together,” Ternan said. “This is going to get worse unless we all find ways to cooperate and stop pointing fingers and blaming.”Here’s one way the risks are already getting worse. Toxicology reports are revealing new and more toxic opioids in some fake pills.
Cliffton DuBois, 19, mistakenly thought he was avoiding dangerous drugs on April 21, 2021 when he took what looked like a Percocet. He died of fentanyl poisoning. But Carilyn Rains, the director of school health services in Plymouth, and a past president of the Massachusetts School Nurse Organization, says many of her colleagues are just learning about the fake pill problem.
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