Seriously folks: please don't take "gas station heroin." As Axios reports, a bipartisan group of lawmakers including TikTok star Jeff Jackson and local theater patron Lauren Boebert has signed a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urging the regulator to take action on tianeptine, or the widely-available-yet-non-FDA-approved antidepressent better known as "gas station heroin." Often […]
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On the street, it’s known as “Tranq", "Philly Dope" and "Zombie Drug.” In the lab it’s xylazine. It's now frequently found in Florida drug seizures with fentanyl.