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Snapchat has become an on-demand delivery app for teens to score illegal drugs. Some kids are dying after taking one pill. 👇 businessinsider.com/snapchat-insta…
Devin Norring, a 19-year-old from Minnesota, died last year after taking a pill filled with fentanyl — a highly addictive opioid — that he arranged to buy via Snapchat.

Devin's mom, Bridgette Norring, believes there are "thousands of families like ours."

businessinsider.com/snapchat-insta… A quote from Lisa Smittcamp, the district attorney in Fresno
Instagram accounts touting the availability of pills including Xanax often list a Snapchat handle for arranging deals.

Snapchat's mapping location feature is an ideal tool for buyers and sellers to find each other, experts and law enforcement say.

businessinsider.com/snapchat-insta… A screenshot of the article linked in the first tweet. It re
Insider found two dozen fentanyl-related deaths in which Snapchat apparently played a role in the transaction.

Meanwhile, Instagram blamed a technical bug for failing to remove dozens of flagged accounts promoting pills. businessinsider.com/snapchat-insta…
It's easier and cheaper to make fake pills using fentanyl than to make actual knock-offs of prescription drugs like Percocet or Xanax, DEA agents and prosecutors said.

And fentanyl deaths are skyrocketing. In Western states, fentanyl deaths are up 98%.

businessinsider.com/fentanyl-death… A quote from Benny Ortiz, a 23-year DEA officer. It reads: &
Chasing dealers down with slow-moving subpoenas and law-enforcement paperwork is not easy.

"Dealers are posting pics in the stories for an hour" on Snapchat, said Lisa Strohman, a clinical psychologist and attorney. "You can't really trace that."

businessinsider.com/snapchat-insta… A quote from Dr. Laura Berman, a famous sex therapist, whose
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