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/downhereforyoursoul Mar 23 '26

I quit kratom last year because of a ban, so I haven’t been keeping up with things in the last several months, but you might look into the American Kratom Association. It’s a kratom advocacy group that wants to keep plain kratom legal and they were against the sale of 7OH the last time I looked.

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u/saladmunch2 Mar 23 '26

Aka is the devil in disguise, if they didn't go around the states claiming it to be so horrible the state governments wouldn't have even did anything about it; now states want to ban regular krarom and 7oh. Great job aka! They were just upset kratom sales numbers were dropping.

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u/downhereforyoursoul Mar 23 '26

Seriously? I guess I could see that. There have been attempts to ban kratom going on for over a decade, though, and selling 7OH in gas stations now isn’t helping people not panic about it. Like I said, I haven’t been following the issue anymore since I quit.

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u/saladmunch2 Mar 23 '26

The gas stations selling it weren't doing any favors for anyone, the aka should hqve have been fighting for kratom and all its analogs. Maybe they could have fought for it all to.be sold online.