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Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

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Poppers, a party substance long popular with gay men, were thrust
into the national spotlight last week when one producer, Double
Scorpio, claimed that they halted operations due to a search and
seizure by the FDA. There's been no official statement from the FDA
saying this raid took place, but the suggestion of a raid — against
producers of a substance disproportionately popular with the queer
community — certainly raised some eyebrows.

Brittany is joined by Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR's health policy
correspondent, and Alex Abad-Santos, Senior Correspondent at Vox.
Together they talk about the FDA's concerns about poppers — even
before our current administration — and the conspiracy theory
that's giving some gay men flashbacks to the 1980s.

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