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Up to one-third of kratom users experience an adverse side effect, which may involve cardiac arrest, liver damage, brain bleeding, or seizures. In some cases, kratom use has resulted in overdose ...
Supplements and unregulated drugs do not have set standards or government-issued monitoring of their safety, and concerns over kratom’s purity and toxicity in the U.S. triggered the 2022 FDA alert.
A kratom product that’s sold in some stores and available to buy online should be avoided, the Food and Drug Administration is warning after one user’s death.. The FDA recently learned a ...
Mitragyna speciosa is a tropical evergreen tree of the Rubiaceae family (coffee family) native to Southeast Asia. [3] It is indigenous to Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Papua New Guinea, [4] where its leaves, known as kratom, have been used in herbal medicine since at least the 19th century. [5]
Ross was born on June 16, 1982, in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Iselin where she attended John F. Kennedy Memorial High School.Ross was the first member of her family to attend college and went to Boston College, where she studied psychology and was in the class of 2004. [2]
Kratom is an unregulated product not approved for any use in the U.S., and is banned in five states, according to the Food and Drug Administration. While the agency warns against consuming it over ...
This may be because most college students plan to quit smoking by the time that they graduate. [3] The prevalence of cigarette smoking by college students increased through the 1990s, but has since leveled off and seen decreases in recent years. [4] Education on the dangers of cigarettes is seen as a leading cause for this decrease.
The FDA tested 30 different kratom products in 2019 and found "significant levels" of lead and nickel in them, which researchers said could cause heavy metal poisoning if consumed over the long term.