RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers are considering making a drug known as “gas station heroin” a controlled substance.
The drug tianeptine – which is also known as Neptune’s Fix, Tianaa or Zaza – is highly addictive and widely available at convenience stores and vape shops.
The North Carolina House Substance Abuse Committee voted unanimously to recommend state leaders vote to take tianeptine off the shelves permanently. The committee recommended adding the drug to the list of controlled substances along with other highly addictive drugs like cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.
The committee also want schools to do more to educate kids about tianeptine and other drugs, especially fentanyl. The move comes after lawmakers sent a letter to the FDA in January urging the agency to take action to ban the drug.
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