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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." But what exactly ...

A growing coalition of drug-policy experts says giving pharmaceutical heroin to addicts beats established treatment. Such programs, they argue, reduce the harms caused by illicit substance use and ...

Source: Used with permission, Mark Gold The good news about bad drugs is that overdose deaths caused by fentanyl are down in the United States, although too many people are still dying. That’s the key ...

The term “gas station heroin” encompasses the drug tianeptine and other 7-OH drugs with dangerous opioid-like effects, but which may be purchased (for now) at smoke shops, gas stations, and other ...

In recent years, lawmakers have focused almost exclusively on stopping the flow of illicit fentanyl to combat the opioid overdose crisis. First appearing as a heroin additive in 2012, fentanyl largely ...

Authorities in New South Wales and Victoria have been warning the public about worrying cases of heroin overdoses after people thought they had taken cocaine or methamphetamine. We know the issue is ...

A cocaine and heroin addict allegedly part of a major drugs gang was a serving magistrate, a court heard. Purshotam Dhillon, 59, was a sitting Justice of the Peace on criminal cases with the power to ...