Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Fayette County coroner has issued a warning about tianeptine, a dangerous and highly addictive street drug known as “gas station heroin,” which has been tied to at least one death in Pennsylvania. “It’s readily available, very dangerous, and unregulated,” Dr. Bob Baker said. The coroner explained that tianeptine is included in many common products. “We’re seeing it in these vape stores, smoke shops, and some mom-and-pop gas stations. I was told that it’s harder to break this addiction than it is to break a heroin addiction,” Baker said. At least a dozen states have banned products containing tianeptine, which can be referred to as “gas station heroin.” Baker said his goal is to have the substance banned nationwide or, at the very least, listed as a controlled substance.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tFAYETTE COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Fayette County coroner has issued a warning about tianeptine, a dangerous and highly addictive street drug known as “gas station heroin,” which has been tied to at least one death in Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n
“It’s readily available, very dangerous, and unregulated,” Dr. Bob Baker said. <\/p>\n
The coroner explained that tianeptine is included in many common products. <\/p>\n
“We’re seeing it in these vape stores, smoke shops, and some mom-and-pop gas stations. I was told that it’s harder to break this addiction than it is to break a heroin addiction,” Baker said. <\/p>\n
At least a dozen states have banned products containing tianeptine, which can be referred to as “gas station heroin.” <\/p>\n
Baker said his goal is to have the substance banned nationwide or, at the very least, listed as a controlled substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READILY AVAILABLE. IT\u2019S VERY DANGEROUS. IT\u2019S UNREGULATED. AN URGENT WARNING ABOUT A NEW STREET DRUG KNOWN AS GAS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14672,80196,37824,24945,80202,80203,2298,80194,80199,80197,28,80195,30,29,38146,53422,80200,42455,80198,80201,7369],"class_list":["post-179669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-addiction","tag-addictive-street-drug","tag-alarm","tag-baker","tag-dozen-state","tag-dr-bob-baker","tag-fayette-county","tag-fayette-county-coroner","tag-gas-station-heroin","tag-gas-station-heroine","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-death","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-product","tag-smoke-shop","tag-street-drug","tag-substance","tag-tianeptine","tag-vape-store","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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