Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making | It's Been a Minute
March 21, 2025
2,347
18
2
0.85%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
NPR Podcasts Episodes Around March 21, 2025
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
22:01Now PlayingPoppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making | It's Been a Minute
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelPoppers, 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 SimmonsDuffin () , NPR's health policy correspondent, and Alex AbadSantos () , 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.
Support public media. Join NPR Plus today () .
See pcm.adswizz.com () for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.
NPR Privacy Policy ()
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.