Gas Station
Heroin
Addictive, drug-like products are being sold legally beside energy drinks and vapes before most parents even know they exist.
Exposures
Mitragynine Detected
2023
7-OH Products
Identified
Products Found
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.
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.