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Wellness Unmasked: The Hidden Danger of “Gas Station Heroin”: What Parents Need to Know About Tianeptine

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics, News Commentary

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Wellness Unmasked, Dr. Nicole Saphier dives into the growing dangers of Tianeptine, often called “gas station heroin,” and why it’s becoming a major public health concern—especially for teenagers and young adults.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:08.3

Welcome to Wellness Unmas.

0:09.9

I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire, and I have a really interesting topic to discuss.

0:13.6

But first, I want to say, let's all just stop for a second and take a breath.

0:17.6

Obviously, the weekend was incredibly stressful.

0:23.0

Another assassination attempt on the president's life. And it sounds like the manifesto, he didn't just necessarily want to get to the

0:28.4

president, but maybe other members of the administration. I had a lot of friends in that room

0:33.9

at the White House Correspondence dinner that night. So I'm so grateful that Secret

0:39.5

Service and the police were able to act swiftly and everyone made it out safely and unharmed.

0:47.3

Very scary time we're living in. Lots of rhetoric going on. And, you know, we all just need to

0:53.1

take a step back, take a big, deep breath.

0:56.1

Now, I probably should talk about something that is a little bit more of a feel-good conversation,

1:01.9

you know, just because of the stressful weekend everyone's had. But when I was working in the

1:06.7

hospital today, I got a text message from a friend asking me about tyoneptine. Now, you may not know

1:15.1

what that is. And in fact, when I hear that name, I don't necessarily, it doesn't ring a bell to me.

1:22.1

But it's something important that I think we should talk about because I want you to know about it. And especially if you have

1:29.7

kids who are adolescents, young adults, you're going to be glad that you know about it. So Tyoneeptine,

1:36.9

you may have heard it as referred to some people call it gas station heroin. And now while that

1:43.0

nickname may sound sensationalized, and you know,

1:46.0

I'm usually the first person to push back on media fearmongering, in this case, the concern is

1:52.0

very real, because this is exactly the kind of story that keeps me up at night as both a doctor,

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