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