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Anti-Kratom Association retweeted
JUST IN: Kratom is an opioid, a poison center leader and a longtime opioid crisis researcher argue in a new journal editorial.
Dr. Andrew Kolodny of Brandeis University and Dr. Christopher Holstege, director of UVA Health's Blue Ridge Poison Center, make the case in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, rejecting the kratom industry's claim that its product is not an opioid.
Kratom's main alkaloid, mitragynine, activates the mu-opioid receptor, the same target as morphine. The liver converts it into 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH), a far more potent opioid, according to the editorial.
Poison centers took a record 3,434 kratom exposure reports in 2025, up from 258 in 2015. About 1 in 4 single-substance cases ended in a hospital stay, the editorial notes.
"Kratom meets both the pharmacological and functional definitions of an opioid," the authors write. They say a 7-OH-only approach "rests on a false premise," because leaf kratom produces 7-OH in the body.
The editorial comes as the Justice Department loosened its proposed 7-OH threshold this month, and as a bipartisan push in the Senate seeks to schedule the whole kratom plant.
We at the Anti-Kratom Association extend our sincerest condolences to MIT45’s parent company, Diversified Botanics, upon its Chapter 11 filing.
Apparently, the company went from $98 million in annualized revenue to approximately $30 million, while facing wrongful-death litigation and regulatory scrutiny.
We respectfully inquire whether bankruptcy is among the many wellness benefits of kratom.
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If Mac Haddow testified before your legislative committee and you believed him, you ought to be embarrassed.
He’s now waving around a 2016 study on kratom adulterated with elevated 7-OH to discredit a grieving mother.
Yet somehow, that particular finding never earned a clear warning in the years of written testimony I reviewed.
Apparently, the science was worth weaponizing against a mother who buried her son, but not worth mentioning to the lawmakers charged with protecting him.
Quite a remarkable time for the truth to become convenient.
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#IALegis #MDGA #PaLegis #MSLeg #GAPol #FLLeg #Kratom #7OH
Lora Romney: “Start calling our leaf ‘botanical kratom’ and call the 7-OH or synthetic products ‘enhanced or concentrated opioid products’… It will take some getting used to.”
Translation: We need everyone to stop calling OUR opioid an opioid.
…and did we mention it’s an OPIOID?
You can call it botanical, natural, ancient or a gift from Mother Nature.
You can even hire lobbyists to call it a food.
But you cannot lobby your way out of pharmacology.
KRATOM IS AN OPIOID.
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Anti-Kratom Association retweeted
I left all my thoughts about kratom on the field this morning. Check it:
BAN IT ALL?: Is natural kratom different from concentrated derivatives? Mac Haddow and Luke Niforatos debate the risks and the proper government response. @LukeNiforatos @Tom_Basile
The American Kratom Association claims to represent 24 million Americans.
Judging by their rally, 23,999,980 must have had other plans.
Meanwhile, here’s ours. 🇺🇸
That precious “all-natural” kratom leaf? A U.S. patent documents using its alkaloids to develop new opioid-active compounds.
Ban the opioid. Protect its chemical building blocks. Repeat.
Quite a regulatory strategy.
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@ChuckGrassley @SenMikeLee #MTLeg #UTLeg
The American Kratom Association claims to represent 24 million kratom consumers.
Here they are in Washington.
Apparently, 23,999,985 of them are camera-shy or that must be one hell of a wide-angle lens.
We are pleased to report 303 local kratom bans across 19 states, with Mississippi leading at 92.
The kratom lobby has graciously labeled our work a “misinformation campaign.”
Apparently, 303 local governments have examined the Botanical BS and reached an equally scandalous conclusion: opioid-active plants do not belong in retail commerce.
globalkratom.org/bans/
We at the Anti-Kratom Association are positively delighted that the President of the International Plant & Herbal Alliance is enjoying the gym, playing the flute, and volunteering at church. Sincerely.
Nevertheless, we must respectfully maintain our objection to the commercial sale of unapproved, opioid-active botanicals.
We regret that her musical accomplishments have not altered our position.
Months ago, I published lab evidence of undisclosed ethanol in kratom shots and urged state alcohol regulators to investigate.
Now Colorado reports 1.24% alcohol in Feel Free and orders its removal from shelves.
Apparently, the “well-regulated” kratom industry forgot the alcohol regulations.
antikratom.org/etoh.html
Rick Townsend wanted kratom in Schedule I.
The AKA and Georgia Council for Recovery opposed it, arguing for continued access as harm reduction.
Georgia compromised.
Now: 4 deaths, 315 poison calls, and prohibited products still on shelves.
Who exactly was being protected?
#GAPol #GALeg #GeorgiaHouse #GeorgiaSenate #GeorgiaPolitics #PublicHealth #Kratom
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We at the Anti-Kratom Association acknowledge the dangers of alcohol, the opioid activity of casein-derived peptides in cheese, and the regrettable tendency of humans to drown in water.
We respectfully invite you to reread our organization’s name.
We assure you it was not selected at random.
The kratom industry has a solution for every dangerous new derivative.
Except the obvious one.
Stop selling the plant they’re making them from.
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We at the Anti-Kratom Association are delighted that Diane is back on her feet and congratulate the American Kratom Association on its latest breakthrough in orthopedic medicine.
We respectfully inquire whether knee replacement surgery has now been rendered obsolete or whether the clinical evidence remains limited to one patient.
Diane from South Carolina is 65. Four years ago arthritis wore her knee down until she could barely walk, and she turned down a knee replacement. "I bought some, and it was a LIFESAVER!"
Real stories. Real relief.
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Mr. Haddow, journalists are reporting on kratom-derived drugs, not defending a chemistry dissertation.
If the products originate from kratom, why should the press pretend otherwise merely because your association finds the family resemblance embarrassing?
Let me ask a simple question.
If you take mitragynine from bulk kratom powder, chemically convert it into 7-OH or pseudoindoxyl or MGM, and sell the resulting opioid, at what precise step does it cease to be kratom-derived?
The answer is: It doesn’t.
“Synthetic” describes the process. “Kratom-derived” describes the origin.
One does not cancel the other.
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Colorado passed another kratom “consumer protection” law in 2025.
Then a 19-year-old died from kratom toxicity. The medical examiner reports 41 kratom-associated deaths in 2025.
The industry got its legal market. Families got more warnings.
Protection for whom, exactly?
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