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| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Gabapentinoide

USA. Health officials are sounding an alarm on the drug gabapentin. And it's not even an opioid.

USA. Health officials are sounding an alarm on the drug gabapentin. And it's not even an opioid.

People are using the prescription painkiller gabapentin to boost their highs, doctors say. (...) Kentucky last year became the first state to classify gabapentin as a controlled substance after the drug showed up in a third of the state’s fatal overdoses in 2016. (NBC News, 01.04.2018)

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/health-officials-are-sounding-alarm-drug-gabapentin-it-s-not-n861111