Comment on Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing

Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• radix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One of the victims described was only a few weeks away from graduating from university.

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  • MooseLad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Somebody needs to teach kids about actual drug safety. Abstinence from drugs is a shitty program that doesn’t work and often, the speakers just lie. Opipids are horrible enough that you don’t have to make up lies about them. When kids find out they lied about weed, they start to wonder what else they were lied to about. I can understand 14 year olds being dumb, but people in their 20s should know better than to be buying opioids on Snapchat and Telegram.

    Also, I don’t see a way how Snapchat can possibly regulate this. Just like with Craigslist, criminals will use emoji and code words to sell drugs and get through language filters.

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    • havokdj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are organizations that do this, it’s called harm reduction. Many people don’t listen to them because they state that the number one harm reduction technique is to not do them at all.

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• JoShmoe@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You gotta find these people in the real world. People like that aren’t gonna be on lemmy or even know about it. Those types can’t get past the settings menu let alone understand FOSS.

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• Bruce_Wayne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or don’t give kids money so they can’t therefore buy drugs.

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