“We don’t have a lot of legal recourse against the platforms, so clenching their fists was really futile,” said Ed Ternan. Read also MLB in Brief: Rehabilitation for Noah Syndergaard | Max Scherzer on fire On September 27, DEA administrator Anne Milgram said social media companies were not doing enough to stop the sale of counterfeit pills on their platforms. The announcement comes less than a week after NBC News featured eight parents whose children had died after taking a single pill containing fentanyl purchased on Snapchat. “We are determined to remove illegal drug sales from our platform. “We have heard devastating stories from families affected by this crisis, including cases where counterfeit pills containing fentanyl were purchased from drug dealers on Snapchat,” Snapchat’s parent company Snap said in a post. These pills are widely available on social media platforms, including Snapchat, and 2 in 5 of those seized and tested in the United States contain enough fentanyl to kill, according to a warning issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration last month. Educational in-app called Heads Up focused on the dangers of fentanyl and counterfeit pills.Ĭounterfeit prescription pills that look like legitimate drugs, such as Percocet, Ox圜ontin, or Xanax, but actually contain a lethal dose of the potent synthetic opioid fentanyl have been linked to a spate of deaths in the United States in recent years.
The company said it improved the automated systems it uses to detect the sale of illegal drugs on the app, hired more people to respond to law enforcement data requests during criminal investigations, and developed a portal. The tools aim to warn users of the dangers of these pills in an effort to protect its community from the “devastating impacts of the fentanyl crisis,” the company said Thursday.
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Snapchat has developed new educational tools and content to crack down on selling deadly counterfeit pills on the messaging app.
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