Data about popular drugs (7)

I believe the answer is:

statins

'drugs' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'data about popular' is the wordplay.
'data' becomes 'stats' (statistics are a kind of data).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'popular' becomes 'in'.
'stats' placed around 'in' is 'STATINS'.

(Another definition for statins that I've seen is " Drugs".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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