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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This article was originally published by Brittany Luse at NPR Topics: Politics – Read this article and more at (https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/1239865419/poppers-the-fda-hiv-aids).
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