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U.S Marshalls seized $3 million worth of kratom. The FDA continues to warn about kratom supplement use, saying it is unsafe, but millions of Americans reporting using it.
WEST PALM BEACH — A federal judge has awarded more than $11 million in damages to the family of a South Florida nurse who fatally overdosed on kratom more than two years ago.. The 39-year-old ...
A deputy sheriff and medics unsuccessfully tried reviving 39-year-old Patrick Coyne, a father of three children, before he was pronounced dead at his family’s home in Cowlitz County on June 28 ...
Mitragynine is an indole-based alkaloid and is one of the main psychoactive constituents in the Southeast Asian plant Mitragyna speciosa, commonly known as kratom. [4] It is an opioid that is typically consumed as a part of kratom for its pain-relieving and euphoric effects.
In Thailand, a 2007 survey found that the lifetime, past year, and past 30 days kratom consumption rates were 2.32%, 0.81% and 0.57%, respectively, among respondents aged 12–65 years, [18] and that kratom was the most widely used recreational drug in Thailand. [18] Kratom may be mixed with other psychoactive drugs, such as caffeine and codeine.
Successful intervention programs typically involve high levels of interactivity, time-intensity, and universal approaches that are delivered in the middle school years. These program characteristics aligned with many of the effective program elements found in previous reviews exploring the impact of school-based drug prevention on licit drug use.
Drug overdose was the leading cause of injury death in 2013. Among people 25 to 64 years old, drug overdose caused more deaths than motor vehicle traffic crashes. There were 43,982 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2013. Of these, 22,767 (51.8%) were related to prescription drugs. [33]
Former Fox News host Eric Bolling warned parents and their children of the dangers of opioid use on the six-month anniversary of the death of his son from an opioid overdose. ... Bolling says he ...