Gas station opioids
Today, Explained

Gas station opioids

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 2, 202625 min
  • Health

Drugs like kratom and 7-OH are widely available at corner stores and smoke shops. They've remained largely unregulated until now. This episode was produced by Kelli Wessinger, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore and Bridger Dunnagan, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Capsules of the herbal supplement Kratom, a psychoactive drug derived from the leaves of the kratom plant. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript...

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Today, Explained from Vox, Sean, Rahm is from Vox. You ever go into a gas station and you're paying at the counter and you look behind the clerk and there's a bunch of cigarettes, but then next

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to the cigarettes are a bunch of zany products with even zanyer names and you're like, what are those? Wait, I have to go, my kid's in the car. Right now in Northern Virginia, we're here to find out,

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what are those? Everything we handle, they go around the same component from the Kratum. One of them is the Super K.

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