--- title: Snapchat Drug Emerges in Australia description: A blue and pink pill with the Snapchat logo has sent people to the hospital in Australia canonical: https://time.com/2838519/police-snapchat-drug-sends-people-to-the-hospital-in-australia/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-06T17:15:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:37.505Z og:title: Police: "Snapchat Drug" Sends People to the Hospital in Australia og:description: No word on whether side effects disappear after 10 seconds og:url: https://time.com/2838519/police-snapchat-drug-sends-people-to-the-hospital-in-australia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4094a7ec7af4cb5/6986968dadae4413e954393e/snapchat1.jpg?branch=production&width=437&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 437 og:image:height: 246 og:image:alt: snapchat drug og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Police: "Snapchat Drug" Sends People to the Hospital in Australia twitter:description: No word on whether side effects disappear after 10 seconds twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4094a7ec7af4cb5/6986968dadae4413e954393e/snapchat1.jpg?branch=production&width=437&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Police: "Snapchat Drug" Sends People to the Hospital in Australia by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jun 6, 2014 5:15 PM UTC  Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Jun 6, 2014 5:15 PM UTC A new drug, emblazoned with the Snapchat logo, hit the streets in Australia this week—and its aggressive effects don’t wear off in 10 seconds. The Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services [issued a statement Friday](http://www.pfes.nt.gov.au/Media-Centre/Media-releases/2014/June/06/Drug-Warning-Darwin.aspx) warning people about the “Snapchat drug,” identified by the ghost logo etched in the blue or pink pills, that [sent at least four people to the hospital Thursday night.](http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/snapchat-drugs-hit-darwin-streets/story-fnk1w5xx-1226946025424) All admitted to the Royal Darwin Hospital were released the next day. “These people appeared to become aggressive and disoriented after ingesting the drug and were taken to Royal Darwin Hospital,” Superintendent Clint Sims said in the release.  Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services This isn’t the first techy-inspired party drug. [The Daily Dot notes](http://www.dailydot.com/news/snapchat-pills-hospital-australia/) a Scottish man was hospitalized after he took ecstasy boasting the Bitcoin logo. Pill Reports, an online ecstasy database, [notes that “Blue Twitter” pills](http://www.pillreports.com/index.php?page=display%5Fpill&id=30748) with the bird logo were passed around in Dublin clubs in 2012\. But the bird drug is more innocuous than the ghost. “Feeling nothing, other than the odd two minute pip buzz,” the review reads. “Waste of money.” Pill Reports also has a record of a [Facebook drug](http://www.pillreports.com/index.php?page=display%5Fpill&id=33115). The Snapchat pill has yet to be recorded in the database. Snapchat did not immediately reply to a request for comment. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2838519/police-snapchat-drug-sends-people-to-the-hospital-in-australia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2838519/police-snapchat-drug-sends-people-to-the-hospital-in-australia/"},"headline":"Police: \"Snapchat Drug\" Sends People to the Hospital in Australia","datePublished":"2014-06-06T17:15:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:37.505Z","description":"No word on whether side effects disappear after 10 seconds","url":"https://time.com/2838519/police-snapchat-drug-sends-people-to-the-hospital-in-australia/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Drugs","Technology","apps","snapchat","health","ecstasy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4094a7ec7af4cb5/6986968dadae4413e954393e/snapchat1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte4094a7ec7af4cb5/6986968dadae4413e954393e/snapchat1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"snapchat drug","caption":"","creditText":"Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2838519/police-snapchat-drug-sends-people-to-the-hospital-in-australia/","name":"Police: \"Snapchat Drug\" Sends People to the Hospital in Australia"}}]}] ```