Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:04 — 1.5MB)
Subscribe: RSS
109,000 people is the current number for people who died of drug overdoses in 2022, with over 70% of them due to illegally manufactured fentanyl and its lookalikes, the CDC reports. Michael Fingerhood, a substance use disorder expert at Johns …
Podcast: Download (Duration: 5:23 — 7.4MB)
Subscribe: RSS
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 …
What is tianeptine and why should you avoid it? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:02 — 1.4MB)
Subscribe: RSS
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 …
What is attractive about drugs sold in gas stations? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:03 — 1.4MB)
Subscribe: RSS
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 …
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05 — 1.5MB)
Subscribe: RSS
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 …
Should you buy mind-altering substances in a gas station? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:08 — 1.6MB)
Subscribe: RSS
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 …
