Deaths from fentanyl among teens have more than tripled since 2019.
Landen Hausman, a high school sophomore, died in January after buying fentanyl-laced Percocet through a dealer on social media. His family found him collapsed on the bathroom floor and tried to revive him with CPR, but it was too late. Hausman said his son probably did not recognize that counterfeit Percocet could be laced with fentanyl.
Sadly, Landen's story is all too common. Last year, more than 100,000 Americans died from fentanyl — more deaths than there were of Americans killed in the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined. Deaths among teens have more than tripled since 2019. "No longer are we talking about meeting on the street and making that connection," Monaco told CBS News."The dealer is in your kid's pocket along with the phone."
"We're asking them to do more," she said."They need to do more. They need to be policing their platforms. … They need to use, quite frankly, the same tools and the technology that allows them to exquisitely serve up those ads for all sorts of things that we're buying online and identify those drug dealers and getting them off."
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