Accidental deaths soar among young people amid a proliferation of fentanyl-filled pharmaceuticals
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Byrne, a special agent for the investigations unit of the US Department of Homeland Security, works in cooperation with the DEA and local law enforcement agencies on a San Diego task force that focuses solely on fentanyl deaths. Amy Neville, Alexander’s mother, said she had felt something was very off as soon as she went to her son’s room that morning.
Law enforcement and other experts agree that buying illicit pills has never been easier. Dealers have moved from the dark web to openly selling what they label as Oxycontin, Percocet, Xanax or Adderall on platforms like Snapchat, Instagram and Craigslist.released in December by the Tech Transparency Project found that Instagram offers an instant “drug pipeline” for kids, making it possible for them to find Xanax, ecstasy and opioids in just a few clicks.
“It was one deadly pill that was strong enough to kill four adults,” said Mendoza, who hopes that other parents will get a chance to warn their children before it’s too late. “I feel like a lot of parents are like: ‘My kids aren’t into that.’ Well, neither was mine,” she said. “But that’s what kids are getting.
Jaime Puerta, who found his 16-year-old son Daniel Puerta-Johnson unconscious in his southern California home in April 2020, has helped parents organize protests outside the offices of Snapchat and on the streets of San Francisco, pushing for more action from social media sites, law enforcement and state regulators.
Moran cited company metrics showing “out of every 10,000 views of content on Instagram, we estimate no more than 5 of those views contained content that violated the policy ”. Feinberg says that, once he signed up to follow a few drug sellers’ sites, social media algorithms began recommending more drug dealers for him to follow, in a phenomenon called algorithmic amplification.
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