'Minutes after opening a Snapchat account pretending to be a 15-year-old girl, I'm amazed at what I see.
Drugs seem to be readily available - just a couple of clicks away. I thought this world was hidden and hard to access, but it is so easy to find.'
A teenager has told how he was groomed by criminals to sell heroin and crack cocaine after being recruited through a post on Snapchat.
Over the past six months Radio 1 Newsbeat has been investigating how social media is being used to sell drugs.
Britain’s most senior police officer when it comes to drugs says social media bosses would do more if it was their children dying from drugs bought this way.
Research suggests one in four young people are now seeing drugs advertised on their social media feeds.
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