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Addictive, unregulated drugs with potential for harm with their use are as close as your local gas station or convenience store, with one called tianeptine showing up more widely. Michael Fingerhood, a substance use disorders expert at Johns Hopkins, says …
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Perhaps it started with caffeine supplements, where drivers who needed a boost could quaff the drug so they could continue their road trip. Now the range of substances purveyed in gas stations may produce opioid-like impact, says Michael Fingerhood, a …
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Tianeptine, or gas station heroin, is the latest entry to the list of substances purveyed online and at gas stations and convenience stores, that are drugs with abuse potential and are completely unregulated. When someone overdoses or otherwise reacts badly …
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Gas station heroin. That’s the popular moniker for tianeptine, a drug being marketed under various names in convenience stores, gas stations and smoke shops, as well as online. Substance use disorder expert Michael Fingerhood at Johns Hopkins says just like …
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Tianeptine is a drug that likely can be found in your local gas stations, along with the caffeine bombs and other mind-altering substances. Michael Fingerhood, a substance use disorder expert at Johns Hopkins, says while tianeptine is just the latest …
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AI is offering hope for making earlier diagnoses in pancreas cancer, historically diagnosed later in the disease when treatment outcomes may not be as good. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, describes the findings. Nelson: …
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