Whack-a-mole drugs — Texas’s solution

We can expect that when the Legislature bans substances like Tianeptine or “gas station heroin,” then copycat drugs will pop up, maybe with a molecule in a complex organic compound changed here or there. 

To go beyond listing dangerous drugs that are out there already, Texas and other states have enacted catch-all language that would list or cover “whack-a-mole” new drugs that people would discover or invent.  

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