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‘Gas station heroin’: the drug sold as a dietary supplement that’s linked to overdoses and deaths

By Michelle Sahai, Computational Biochemist, Brunel University of London

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an urgent warning about tianeptine – a substance marketed as a dietary supplement but known on the street as “gas station heroin”.

Linked to overdoses and deaths, it is being…

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