Gas Station
Heroin

Addictive, drug-like products are being sold legally beside energy drinks and vapes — before most parents even know they exist.

Retail shelves are normalizing addiction.

GasStationHeroin.org helps families recognize the products, packaging, store placement, and warning signs behind substances now sold beside vapes, energy drinks, CBD, and ordinary convenience-store items. Know the names before your kids do.

Product Categories

These are the categories parents should recognize when walking into vape shops, smoke shops, gas stations, and convenience stores.

Opioids
Tianeptine, kratom extracts, 7-OH products
Sedatives
Phenibut, sleep shots, calming blends
Stimulants
Energy pills, focus shots, synthetic blends
Hallucinogens
Mushroom gummies, Amanita muscaria, psychedelic blends
Sexual Enhancement
Gas-station ED pills and enhancement products
CBD / Hemp
Delta-8, intoxicating hemp, gummies, vapes
Vapes / Nicotine
Disposable vapes, synthetic nicotine, kid-friendly flavors
Other
Unlabeled blends, novelty shots, powders, capsules

Resources for Parents

Simple tools to help families understand what these products look like, where they are sold, and how to talk about them before exposure becomes a crisis.

Product Recognition Guide

Learn the names, packaging styles, and product forms commonly found in vape shops and gas stations.

Conversation Guide

Plain-language talking points for discussing kratom, tianeptine, vapes, hemp products, and retail drugs with teens.

Warning Signs

What to look for at home — in backpacks, receipts, product bottles, vape devices, and browser history.

Get Involved

Parents can change what communities tolerate. Document what's being sold, alert other families, and ask local leaders why addictive products are treated like ordinary retail goods.

Report Local Stores

Take photos of products, signs, and shelf placement. Note the store name, city, and product category.

Contact Officials

Send information to local health departments, school boards, city councils, state legislators, and attorneys general.

Share the Warning

Use parent groups, school networks, neighborhood pages, and community meetings to show what is being sold.