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I think, overall, people look at me and they say, "Dave, you're a pharmacologist who is with a major academic medical center. Why are you even giving voice to consumers who want to use kratom powder?" His family said he was looking for an aid to help with his anxiety and accidentally consumed both one of these high-strength kratom products alongside the antihistamine diphenhydramine and died the next day. It's the version of kratom substances that people can get addicted to.

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FitzGerald said he hopes that if Boston adds its name to the kratom regulation list, it will help prompt state action. “We fully support regulations on kratom,” said Mac Haddow, senior public policy fellow with the industry group, the American Kratom Association. Personally, she said “I’m a mom and absolutely never want my kids to experiment with kratom and I think it is incredibly problematic.” Dr. Sarah Wakeman, medical director for substance use disorder at Mass General Brigham, said there’s some truth to that. Despite its relative low lethality, a handful of cities and towns have moved to regulate kratom sales. Several others have passed or are considering limits like age restrictions and bans on the powerful synthetic version.

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The rule from JCARR replaces a temporary ban in an executive order signed by Gov. Mike DeWine in December. Some experts say it is 13 times more potent than morphine. “The small profile and quality of this product has made this a go to for my camping and hiking experiences. “At first I wasn’t sure how this product would make me feel, but I love it! "I really want to talk about Feel Free, because this product is inconspicuous, it's in gas stations all around the country," he said.

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• The patchwork of state laws reflects growing concern among regulators that synthetic kratom is being sold in gas stations, smoke shops, and specialty stores with little oversight.
• His son Cameron found kratom online in college after seeing it marketed as a plant-based herbal supplement.
• The method of ingestion may influence kratom’s effects.
• According to the FDA, there were 11 deaths from 2011 to 2017 connected to kratom exposure, but almost all of them involved other drugs or contaminants.
• In Tennessee, where Clarke spent his entire NBA career playing for the Grizzlies, kratom is sold openly in smoke shops and corner stores.
• Only mitragynine, 7-hydroxymitragynine, speciociliatine, and corynantheidine are currently known to be pharmacologically active.
• It’s important to understand these differences before choosing a product.

Kratom opponents, like Holly Trouville of Dracut, are hoping that if Boston implements a ban, that will prompt more cities and towns to act. Food and Drug Administration recommended that 7-OH be federally regulated as a controlled substance. Other side effects may include nausea, dizziness, confusion and tremors, according to Karan. The plant is thought to have dual properties. "After the last wave of the opioid epidemic, we cannot get caught flat-footed again," he said. U.S. health agencies are targeting a threat to Americans that is readily available nationwide.

That designation would make the substance illegal nationwide. “(The governor) doesn’t understand the people he’s going to put out of work,” Ingram said. “We’ve had a number of people in Ohio who have actually overdosed and died,” he said.

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In Florida, where Trouville’s son died, a local investigation the year before his death revealed that nearly 600 people over the last decade had died of kratom-related overdoses. “If you’re a larger city with almost a million people in it saying it’s a problem … I think a lot of other towns and cities would look at Boston and say, ‘Why are they banning? According to the addiction treatment network Sprout Health Group, six states, including Rhode Island, have outlawed the sale and use of kratom. That’s partly because kratom’s relative newness makes it undetectable in standard drug testing. Between 2020 and 2025, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner recorded 91 deaths in which kratom or its primary active compound, mitragynine, was identified as either a cause or contributing factor.