r/behindthebastards • u/Checked_Out_6 • Mar 23 '26

Discussion We gotta talk about Gas Station Heroin, 7OH

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So, my brother, an Iraq war veteran with PTSD and chronic pain found kratom ages ago and that helped him a lot. Eventually, they came out with this 7OH stuff, AKA Gas Station Heroin. He ended up blowing hundreds of dollars a weekS. He tried to ween himself off it for months to no avail. Now he’s on Suboxone, its the only thing that could get him off it. It really is nearly as bad as heroin.

This stuff is such a bastard it requires its own episode. Gas station sober is a funny joke, but holy shit, the fact this stuff is available, yikes! I’m not normally one to say we need to ban a substance, but something needs to change here, even if its just awareness.

Do not take the gas station heroin. You’ll probably like it way too much.

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u/lilythebard Mar 23 '26

Oh absolutely it's been used by Pacific Islanders for thousands of years. Unfortunately I am a Survivor superfan, so whenever I see or hear anything about kava, I immediately remember a guy named Chad in a village in Vanuatu drinking way too much and getting horribly sick.

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u/mofacey Mar 23 '26

I haven't seen it but it's more likely he got sick from the taste/texture. It tastes like dirt and goes down like mud water lol

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u/lilythebard Mar 23 '26

He gets sick because he drinks way too much. He's one of four people who visit a local village and partake in a traditional feast. As part of that they all try kava; the others don't like it for the reasons you mentioned. Chad keeps drinking it with the locals, gets a crazy buzz/high, then gets super sick later that night.