MIAMI – Florida’s emergency rule to briefly ban tianeptine, higher referred to as “gas station heroin,” expires in about 4 months, so state lawmakers are running on a bill to make it everlasting.

Attorney General Ashley Moody announced the emergency rule in overdue September and it expires on June 30. Rep. Rachel Saunders Plakon filed the bill in January.

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House Bill 1595 provides tianeptine to the listing of substances with a high potential for abuse and no longer authorized for scientific use. On Friday, lawmakers added it to the second one studying calendar.

The Food and Drug Administration has issued warnings towards using tianeptine, at first produced in Europe as an anti-depressant. Most lately, the FDA warned towards using “Neptune’s Fix” warning of serious risks.