A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows between 2019 and 2021, the number of teens who died from fentanyl increased from 253 to 884.
The drug and fentanyl epidemic is moving to the social media sphere, and many parents do not know their kids are part of it.
“It’s pretty scary what you can go online and have shipped to your house pretty easily,” said Steve Carleton, clinical director of Gallus Medical Detox, which has seen more teen patients arrive recently. “Drug trafficking networks have exploited this,” said Brian Besser, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Denver Field Division. “They know that if they can operate in anonymity and they can reach millions of users at a time, they win.”
“What used to take hours or days can be completed in literally minutes or seconds,” he said. “That is where the game has changed. The idea of a young person obtaining a potentially deadly psychotropic drug within seconds is what is alarming to us.”
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