Did you know your kid can easily access drugs and dealers on social media such as Instagram or Snapchat? Listen in to hear one mom's tragic story!

Dr. Laura Bergman's story: https://abc7chicago.com/dr-laura-berman-son-fentanyl-overdose-buy-drugs-social-media/10324555/

Interview with drug dealers that use Snapchat: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/06/its-easy-to-buy-drugs-on-sna.html

Childhood 2.0 movie: https://www.childhood2movie.com/

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FULL TRANSCRIPTION:

Speaker 1 (00:00):

Once upon a time, drugs were dealt in a sort of obvious way by hanging out on street corners or going to certain places to pick up drugs today, drugs are dealt through two very popular social media platforms and your kiddo is likely on one of these. So today we're going to talk about one story of a mom who thought she was doing everything right and low and behold, her child got ahold of something and did not survive. And she is sharing her story out on social media to help other parents realize this very, very real danger and to help other parents save their kids. So please listen today and please have a conversation with your kiddo when you're done. Please check out the links. I'm going to drop in the show notes for you to learn more about her story. And some of the other resources that I have found that are very, very disturbing, but are things that we absolutely need to know about today. Okay. Stay tuned.

Speaker 2 (01:01):

Welcome to your source for tips, tools, and support to help you be that mom that is tuned in and proactive for yourself, your family, and for the wild ride of raising kids in this digital age, inspired by a mother's love with a relatable real life. Proud to be that mom flair. This is the bead that mom movement with your host, Dolly Denson, he friends. Did you,

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Speaker 1 (02:11):

You just put in your email and then it will send you, or the next screen will be a place where you can download it. But I have a tip sheet for using bark and then other digital resources I recommend. And then the second one is a, just a general digital resource guide if I'm not necessarily specific for bark, but if you are looking to, you know, find more resources in things that are recommended, I have some discount codes in there too. Some of the links that I share are affiliate links, which means I get compensated for sharing those links at no extra cost to you, just as a way to help fund this podcast. So any support that you provide me is greatly appreciated. So I can bring more of this to you. And the most important thing that I want to do is to get these things in the hands of you and your children so that we can protect them because the digital world is absolutely a threat to their safety and their future.

Speaker 1 (03:06):

So that's why I'm here to help us all be that mom, but be strong, be proactive, join hands together to get this done. And the tools that I share are absolutely things I have used. I have checked out thoroughly and I do not share anything that I don't wholeheartedly believe can help you. Okay. So please check those things out, download those today. I'm hoping that they're helpful for you. Okay. So today I want to talk about this story that I've heard for a couple of weeks. This actually occurred at the beginning of February, I believe, but I keep having it pop up again in my newsfeed. And I paid a little bit more attention to it this last time and read more about what exactly happened and felt compelled to just set aside the thing that I was going to talk about today and bring this to your attention, because it's something that even with the best of intentions with bark and everything else that we do this slipped through this mom's hands and very much could slip through your hands too.

Speaker 1 (04:05):

Okay. So what I'm talking about is a mom by the name of Dr. Laura Berman. I believe she is on several talk shows in different things, helps with relationships, but she has a son. His name was CME and he was 16 years old. And beginning of February, I'm not sure the exact date. It was a normal day for them. He was looking at colleges and internships and he had come and had his dad make him a cheeseburger. And then he went back up to his room. It may maybe been an hour since they had seen him and he wanted her to come to his room. So he could talk about some stuff that he was doing for upcoming internships for this summer. Well, when she arrived in his room, she found him on the floor and he wasn't breathing. She called emergency services. They came, tried for 30 minutes to bring him back and they could not.

Speaker 1 (04:58):

She says that she thought she was doing everything right. She talked to her kids about all of the things, but she thought that what she needed to be worrying about with her child being on social media was nude pictures and things such as that, she never once thought that her son would experiment with drugs and that, that would kill him. But let me tell you how scary this is, because when you think about it, you're probably thinking my kid would never do that. Okay. Personally, in my own experience, what brought me to doing this podcast was not this, but could have gotten to this very quickly. I saw this stuff happening among peers of my son. And fortunately we caught onto it. But Dr. Laura, she says that about a year prior, her son was using marijuana and where she lived, it was legal. So they talked about it, but he had written out like this paper.

Speaker 1 (05:52):

She said that he researched everything. So he had written out this paper to argue his point of why using marijuana was okay, so they did not approve of it, but it was something that they were dealing with. Well, this day came and she contacted his friends and through his friends, she found out that he had been in touch with someone on Snapchat to get drugs. But when we're talking drugs, we're not talking heroin cocaine, which are something that you can't get, but we're talking a pill of what his friend thinks was Percocet. He thinks that's what he was trying to get from this drug dealer. And the problem is they're seeing this more and more. And CME story is just one story of many, many stories. Dr. Laura said that when she put her story out on her social media, she has been bombarded by stories from other parents going through the same thing, where they lost their child or almost lost their child.

Speaker 1 (06:52):

So this is very, very prevalent. But what she has found after ...