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Andrew Yockey, Assistant Professor of Health and Kinesiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

That brightly packaged sexual enhancement pill at the gas station might be laced with dangerous drugs

Though the labels on sexual enhancement products are pretty explicit, they leave a lot of important ingredients off the label. Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images

Brightly colored packaging, promises of better sexual performance and names like “Rhino,” “Anaconda” and “Magnum” make sexual enhancement products difficult to miss. They can be found online, in convenience stores and at gas stations, and some can even be ordered through delivery services.

But what’s inside the package may be considerably different from what appears on the label.

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