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Advocates, attorneys say Snapchat has been 'turning a blind eye' to deaths from drugs acquired via the app
Attorneys say Snapchat has become the delivery system of choice for drug dealers pushing their products into young hands.
One year ago a two-time overdose survivor showed KING 5 just how easy it is find illegal drugs via the app.
He pulled out his cell phone and found a connection in a matter of moments -- one that was even willing to deliver to his house.
"It's like Amazon for drug dealers," he said.
The Snapchat app enables dealers to deliver drugs directly to teens anonymously -- everything from Adderall to Oxycontin.
Many of the pills, however, are counterfeits -- containing deadly doses of the synthetic opioid fentanyl -- 50 times stronger than heroin.
One of those pills killed Carol Schweigert's son, Trey.
For the past five years she's been fighting for awareness, but it hasn't come easily.
"There are lives lost every single day and the battle has been uphill," she says.
According to the CDC, fentanyl kills more than 150 Americans every day.
Now, a Seattle law firm is going after the company with a class action lawsuit that claims this is not a social media problem. It is specifically a Snapchat problem.
"Snapchat has been turning a blind eye to this issue. They've know about it for years," says Matthew Bergman, an attorney with Seattle's Social Media Victims Law Center.
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