But dealers are moving away from the dark web and anonymous cryptocurrencies and onto social media apps. ![]() Like many industries, drug dealing has evolved with technology. ![]() ![]() Ms Neville has met with Snapchat executives and is demanding the company do more to curb drug sales on the platform Ms Neville counts 427 overdose deaths in Orange County alone. ( Supplied: Amy Neville)Ī growing number of parents in the United States have lost children to an overdose after ordering drugs on Snapchat. Social media platforms like Snapchat made buying drugs more accessible to Alexander, according to his mother Amy. "But the ease and the access, and the fact it looks so normal and these drug dealers are promoting that they have legitimate prescription pills, it makes it way too easy." If it was back-alley scariness, he wouldn't have tried it," she said. Ms Neville explained her son had been open with her about experimenting with drugs, and that he used Snapchat to buy pills - an app in which pictures and messages self-destruct after they are sent. His mother said his time of death was 9:50am and the rehab centre had called to confirm his place at the facility just four minutes later. ![]() "Alexander took one pill that killed and that pill had enough fentanyl in it to kill him and four other people," she told the ABC's PM program.įentanyl is a synthetic opioid that's been making its way into party and prescription drugs and is a hundred times more potent than morphine.Īlexander, 14, died in his bedroom. His mother Amy Neville said the pill he received turned out to be fake and was laced with fentanyl.
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