Tianeptine, found at convenience stores, at smoke shops and online, can mimic an opioid. It is among a growing class of substances that are difficult to control.
The young father headed across the parking lot to join the other parents meeting their children’s new preschool teachers. After a few steps, he began sweating and twitching. As the sky reeled, he staggered back to the car, desperate to lie down in the back seat and breathe, hidden by tinted windows.
“Did you take something?” his wife, Anne, shouted at him while dialing 911. Eric, 26, had completed rehab earlier in the summer.
“The shot! The shot!” he groaned, just before he hit the ground and blacked out.
In the emergency room of a nearby hospital in southern New Jersey, doctors tried to revive him with a defibrillator.
“What’s he on?” they yelled at Anne.
She showed them a shot-size bottle of the cherry-flavored elixir she had fished out of the car. It was labeled Neptune’s Fix. Eric had bought it at a local smoke shop.
“What the hell is that?” a doctor asked.
Neptune’s Fix features an ingredient called tianeptine — popularly known as gas-station heroin.
Often sold as a dietary supplement and promoted by retailers as a mood booster and focus aid, tianeptine is among a growing, unregulated class of potentially addictive products available in gas stations, convenience stores and smoke shops and across the internet. They typically include synthetic pharmaceuticals and plant-derived substances.
The creaking dinosaurs of congress need to make this shit illegal as of yesterday. Too busy arguing over Hunter Biden I guess.
Actually it looks like while its not illegal it is illegal to use it in food and supplements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianeptine); In this case those products are already considered illegal.
If the DEA adds it to a schedule list, enforcement will improve.
Indeed, just silly that the article makes it sound like those products are legal when I assume based on the wiki that the store owner CAN be held accountable (at least for the sale of illegal items)
Did we not learn anything from Marijuana being illegal opening up the market for spice? Maybe instead of just banning more substances, which just leads to a slightly different chemical that’s probably even more dangerous we should start treating addiction like the health issue it is and not a legal one.
I agree however we need stronger unbiased regulation to ensure safety
this is satire right?
Paywalled. Did he die?
No. https://www.yahoo.com/news/gas-station-heroin-sold-dietary-183733053.html
While Eric was recovering from tianeptine poisoning, Anne stormed over to the local smoke shop where he had bought it.
“My husband’s in the hospital because of this product and you’re still going to keep it on the shelves?” she yelled.`
“Yes,” she said the owner replied, “because people want it and we need to make money.”
“Yes,” she said the owner replied, “because people want it and we need to make money.”
What
Understandable. Have a late-stage capitalist day.
Just saw the same attitude from drug dealers in this video.
It’s an antidepressant.
Edit: tianeptine is literally an antidepressant, it’s not a matter of opinion.
Indeed it is. Why is it being conflated with heroin here?
Why is it being conflated with heroin here?
because if the headline didn’t say “gas station heroin” you wouldn’t click the article and see the embedded ads
I Googled “Neptune’s fix” and literally every link had the same bs title. It’s ridiculous.
BUT… one did mention it works on opioid receptors, I guess that’s where the headline came from.
So… someone was taking dictation during all of this? Did they have a court stenographer following therm around? This shit reads like a one act play.
Better this than weed right?!.. RIGHT!!!
Wait till they find out about kratom. Can’t believe some Congressman’s soccer-mom wife hasn’t pitched a crusade.
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And I’m sure spamming every post you see is helping
No, the structure is amazing and improves conversation. Shut up.