News Killed by a pill bought on social media: the counterfeit drugs poisoning US teens

[thegreenhand]

Killed by a pill bought on social media: the counterfeit drugs poisoning US teens​

Erin McCormick
The Guardian
23 Dec 2021

Fourteen-year-old Alondra Salinas had set out her new white sneakers and packed her backpack the night before the first day of in-person high school when police say she responded to an offer on Snapchat for blue pills, which turned out to be deadly fentanyl. Her mother couldn’t wake her the next morning.

Seventeen-year-old Zachary Didier was waiting to hear back on his college applications when a fake Percocet killed him. Sammy Berman Chapman, a 16-year-old straight-A student, died in his bedroom after taking what he thought was a single Xanax.

Their tragedies are part of an explosion of drug-related deaths among US high school and college-aged youth, fueled by what experts say is a flood of fentanyl-filled counterfeit pills being sold on social media and sometimes delivered straight to kids’ homes.

Read the full story here.

 

[neversickanymore]

That’s awful. Learn how to test your substances. To many greedy people out there willing to sell cheap fent as other drugs.

 

[polarthedog]

What’s even sadder is when you try to explain to people how the fent epidemic is directly caused by the illegalization of drugs, they look at you like your crazy/stupid

Ignorance kills, we should make that illegal

 

[thegreenhand]

What’s even sadder is when you try to explain to people how the fent epidemic is directly caused by the illegalization of drugs, they look at you like your crazy/stupid

Ignorance kills, we should make that illegal

Yep it takes some very strong logic bending for someone to conclude that fent contaminated drugs are the fault of liberalization of drug laws…