The rise of gas station opioids

Products containing kratom from the brand Feel Free on sale at a tobacco store in Huntington, New York. | Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via Getty Images They have fun names like Feel Free, Smurphs, and Hazy Tabz. They come in colorful packages and in gummy form. They’re widely available at gas stations, corner stores, and smoke shops across the country. They’re also highly addictive, largely unregulated, and in the news after they were found near the bodies of two dead University of Mississippi students. The drugs are called Kratom and 7-OH. The first, kratom, is derived from the leaves of

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