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Kratom, a popular supplement that has sparked wrongful death lawsuits across the country, was recently legalized in Rhode Island. Marketed as an energy booster and used for centuries in Southeast Asia for reducing pain, people experiencing anxiety and chronic pain have turned to kratom to self-treat their symptoms. Some... show more

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KRATOM WARNING: The FDA says nearly 2 million Americans used the herbal supplement kratom in 2021 to treat pain, anxiety and opioid withdrawal. But the supplement is now being blamed for addiction, seizures and deaths.

KRATOM WARNING: The FDA says nearly 2 million Americans used the herbal supplement kratom in 2021 to treat pain, anxiety and opioid withdrawal. But the supplement is now being blamed for addiction, seizures and deaths.

CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil

25,177 views • 2 years ago

The herbal supplement kratom is sold in petrol stations and vape shops across the US. Supporters say it works as a natural mood booster and alternative pain relief, but kratom has also been linked with liver toxicity, dependence and even death. Sky’s Martha Kelner reports

The herbal supplement kratom is sold in petrol stations and vape shops across the US. Supporters say it works as a natural mood booster and alternative pain relief, but kratom has also been linked with liver toxicity, dependence and even death. Sky’s Martha Kelner reports

Sky News

36,029 views • 1 month ago

🇺🇸 A lab-made opioid is being sold as natural kratom at gas stations across America Kratom leaf has been used for centuries in Southeast Asia for energy and pain, and it naturally holds only trace amounts of a compound called 7-OH. The gummies and shots on gas station counters concentrate that compound in a lab, and the FDA says it can hit up to 13 TIMES HARDER than morphine. The warning from drug czar Sara Carter comes after two Ole Miss students died in deaths believed to be linked to kratom. The DEA already moved to schedule 7-OH alongside heroin while leaving the leaf alone, which is exactly the right line. Until that ban is enforced, a teenager can still grab a SERIOUS opioid next to the beef jerky and Red Bull without showing ID. Writers: Daniel

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Mario Nawfal

122,845 views • 11 days ago

Kratom is no joke. The opioid-type drug has been under the radar for years. It is not regulated nor illegal. It comes from a leaf of a Southeast Asia plant, but manufacturers often increase the amount of 7 Hydroxy in what is sold to hook buyers. It is known as "Gas Station Heroin." Two students at Ole Miss are dead and packaged Kratom was at the scene. I don't believe in coincidences in this situation. Below is the dispatch call for one of the ODs. Ole Miss is warning students not to buy Kratom and that Narcan is being dispensed in the vending machines. Narcan works on those who may have overdosed from Kratom. Campus officials are saying this for a reason. Take heed. I will stay on this story. Authorities are not saying for sure if the deaths are related. #OleMiss #Kratom

Kratom is no joke. The opioid-type drug has been under the radar for years. It is not regulated nor illegal. It comes from a leaf of a Southeast Asia plant, but manufacturers often increase the amount of 7 Hydroxy in what is sold to hook buyers. It is known as "Gas Station Heroin." Two students at Ole Miss are dead and packaged Kratom was at the scene. I don't believe in coincidences in this situation. Below is the dispatch call for one of the ODs. Ole Miss is warning students not to buy Kratom and that Narcan is being dispensed in the vending machines. Narcan works on those who may have overdosed from Kratom. Campus officials are saying this for a reason. Take heed. I will stay on this story. Authorities are not saying for sure if the deaths are related. #OleMiss #Kratom

Jennifer Coffindaffer

40,500 views • 15 days ago

🔥🚨BREAKING — Oxford Police announce a THIRD OVERDOSE related to Kratom after two students were found dead with Kratom near their bodies. This morning, about 5 a.m., on Sweetgum Lane. A 22-year-old was found unresponsive. Medics were able to revive him. Alert on the way to the hospital. Expected to be OK. Police were explicit: not a student, not connected to the death cases. What he had was synthetic kratom. Investigators say there is no sign it was bought in Oxford. Lafayette County Metro Narcotics is on it. The department warned again that manufactured kratom can carry powerful, unpredictable substances. Aidan Hamilton, 18, and Robert Strang, 20, died September 21. Packaged kratom was at both scenes. Police still have not confirmed it killed them. Two students are already gone. A third person just got pulled back. Stay away from it.

🔥🚨BREAKING — Oxford Police announce a THIRD OVERDOSE related to Kratom after two students were found dead with Kratom near their bodies. This morning, about 5 a.m., on Sweetgum Lane. A 22-year-old was found unresponsive. Medics were able to revive him. Alert on the way to the hospital. Expected to be OK. Police were explicit: not a student, not connected to the death cases. What he had was synthetic kratom. Investigators say there is no sign it was bought in Oxford. Lafayette County Metro Narcotics is on it. The department warned again that manufactured kratom can carry powerful, unpredictable substances. Aidan Hamilton, 18, and Robert Strang, 20, died September 21. Packaged kratom was at both scenes. Police still have not confirmed it killed them. Two students are already gone. A third person just got pulled back. Stay away from it.

The Patriot Oasis™

34,003 views • 7 days ago

Coca Cola had cocaine in it. The coca now studied for compounds that may have medicinal properties. Dr McCurdy is one of the top experts in plant based products for medicine, incl. Kratom- a highly controversial drug (it’s very addictive but may help some people get off opioids).

Coca Cola had cocaine in it. The coca now studied for compounds that may have medicinal properties. Dr McCurdy is one of the top experts in plant based products for medicine, incl. Kratom- a highly controversial drug (it’s very addictive but may help some people get off opioids).

Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.

207,157 views • 1 year ago

Amid FDA calls to ban kratom/7-OH, Cato Institute Senior Fellow Jeffrey A. Singer claims there are no confirmed overdose deaths and that TYLENOL is responsible for far more poisonings. “Out of 600,000 calls to the poison control centers in the United States… 53 were related to 7-OH or kratom, or 0.00009%, as opposed to, for comparison during that same period, 11% were from Tylenol overdoses.”

Amid FDA calls to ban kratom/7-OH, Cato Institute Senior Fellow Jeffrey A. Singer claims there are no confirmed overdose deaths and that TYLENOL is responsible for far more poisonings. “Out of 600,000 calls to the poison control centers in the United States… 53 were related to 7-OH or kratom, or 0.00009%, as opposed to, for comparison during that same period, 11% were from Tylenol overdoses.”

One America News

120,082 views • 1 year ago

EXPOSED: O’Keefe Uncovers California Smoke Shops Selling Banned Kratom, With Clerks Attempting to Process Purchases Using Government-Funded EBT Benefits as “Groceries” or EBT Cash The clerk in San Diego stated, “They banned it for good. So tomorrow is the last day. You have to remove every single piece [of kratom]. If they got you with this [kratom], it’s a felony. That’s a big-time felony.” At a Los Angeles store, an undercover journalist asked, “You ran it as groceries right?” The clerk nodded yes, confirming the attempted purchase was categorized as an EBT grocery transaction. At another LA smoke shop, a clerk asked, “Can $7 be EBT cash?” before another clerk responded, “Yeah, I think so. EBT cash.”

EXPOSED: O’Keefe Uncovers California Smoke Shops Selling Banned Kratom, With Clerks Attempting to Process Purchases Using Government-Funded EBT Benefits as “Groceries” or EBT Cash The clerk in San Diego stated, “They banned it for good. So tomorrow is the last day. You have to remove every single piece [of kratom]. If they got you with this [kratom], it’s a felony. That’s a big-time felony.” At a Los Angeles store, an undercover journalist asked, “You ran it as groceries right?” The clerk nodded yes, confirming the attempted purchase was categorized as an EBT grocery transaction. At another LA smoke shop, a clerk asked, “Can $7 be EBT cash?” before another clerk responded, “Yeah, I think so. EBT cash.”

James O'Keefe

393,204 views • 20 days ago

🚨 UPDATE: TWO OLE MISS STUDENTS DEAD. POLICE RAID A SMOKE SHOP TWO MILES FROM CAMPUS. Aidan Hamilton, 18, and Robert Strang, 20, were found dead Monday in separate incidents, one in a campus dorm, one off campus. Packaged kratom from a retail store was found at BOTH scenes. Cops have NOT confirmed kratom killed them. Toxicology is being expedited. Don’t pretend we know what we don’t know. What we DO know: Oxford banned kratom years ago. Investigators still hit Puffs Vape, Tobacco and Beer Store and seized more than 500 units of kratom plus other suspected narcotics. Two men arrested for possession with intent to distribute. The shop’s owner was already indicted for narcotics trafficking in 2022 and fled the country. Mayor’s message to the dealers: we are looking for you every single day. Two families are burying sons. A campus is waiting on answers. Gas-station junk sold to kids is not a “herbal product.” It’s a pipeline. Shut it down. Pray for those families.

🚨 UPDATE: TWO OLE MISS STUDENTS DEAD. POLICE RAID A SMOKE SHOP TWO MILES FROM CAMPUS. Aidan Hamilton, 18, and Robert Strang, 20, were found dead Monday in separate incidents, one in a campus dorm, one off campus. Packaged kratom from a retail store was found at BOTH scenes. Cops have NOT confirmed kratom killed them. Toxicology is being expedited. Don’t pretend we know what we don’t know. What we DO know: Oxford banned kratom years ago. Investigators still hit Puffs Vape, Tobacco and Beer Store and seized more than 500 units of kratom plus other suspected narcotics. Two men arrested for possession with intent to distribute. The shop’s owner was already indicted for narcotics trafficking in 2022 and fled the country. Mayor’s message to the dealers: we are looking for you every single day. Two families are burying sons. A campus is waiting on answers. Gas-station junk sold to kids is not a “herbal product.” It’s a pipeline. Shut it down. Pray for those families.

Gunther Eagleman™

50,919 views • 12 days ago

A mother just shared the autopsy results on her son. Her son Masen was healthy. Perfect. Getting ready to play college football. He died in May from 7-OH kratom — the concentrated strain of an energy supplement. Since his passing, it was pulled from shelves. Now there’s a push to bring it back. This isn’t hidden. It’s sold openly in convenience stores and gas stations, sitting right next to energy drinks and candy. No prescription. Often no real oversight. Marketed like a harmless supplement while acting more like an opioid. That’s what these stores are stocking. Products strong enough to kill a healthy young man with his whole life ahead of him. I feel so horrible for her. As a parent, I cannot imagine her pain and grief. No parent should have to bury their child over something bought at the corner store.

A mother just shared the autopsy results on her son. Her son Masen was healthy. Perfect. Getting ready to play college football. He died in May from 7-OH kratom — the concentrated strain of an energy supplement. Since his passing, it was pulled from shelves. Now there’s a push to bring it back. This isn’t hidden. It’s sold openly in convenience stores and gas stations, sitting right next to energy drinks and candy. No prescription. Often no real oversight. Marketed like a harmless supplement while acting more like an opioid. That’s what these stores are stocking. Products strong enough to kill a healthy young man with his whole life ahead of him. I feel so horrible for her. As a parent, I cannot imagine her pain and grief. No parent should have to bury their child over something bought at the corner store.

DocumentingLibs

579,674 views • 1 month ago

A Powerful New Opioid 13x Stronger Than Morphine Is Being Sold in Gas Stations — RFK Jr. Warns It’s Packaged Like Candy and Targeting Kids “They're marketed for children. They're gummy bears, they're bright colors, they're candy flavored.” – Secretary Kennedy The drug is called 708 — a synthetic kratom concentrate being sold legally across America. RFK Jr. is pushing for a federal crackdown and urging families to wake up: “You need to have that conversation with your kids.”

A Powerful New Opioid 13x Stronger Than Morphine Is Being Sold in Gas Stations — RFK Jr. Warns It’s Packaged Like Candy and Targeting Kids “They're marketed for children. They're gummy bears, they're bright colors, they're candy flavored.” – Secretary Kennedy The drug is called 708 — a synthetic kratom concentrate being sold legally across America. RFK Jr. is pushing for a federal crackdown and urging families to wake up: “You need to have that conversation with your kids.”

UngaTheGreat

876,684 views • 1 year ago

Two Ole Miss students found dead in separate incidents — and packaged kratom was recovered at both scenes. Authorities say they haven't confirmed whether kratom or any other substance played a role in either death. One victim, 18, was found in a dorm room. The other, 20, was found in an off-campus home. Toxicology results could take weeks. Meanwhile, students say the university has gone largely silent. At least three Greek life events have been canceled, bars are tightening screening, and one student told Fox News Digital she was drugged at a bar over the weekend and later found passed out in her dorm hallway. "People are scared to leave their dorm rooms," she wrote on Facebook.

Two Ole Miss students found dead in separate incidents — and packaged kratom was recovered at both scenes. Authorities say they haven't confirmed whether kratom or any other substance played a role in either death. One victim, 18, was found in a dorm room. The other, 20, was found in an off-campus home. Toxicology results could take weeks. Meanwhile, students say the university has gone largely silent. At least three Greek life events have been canceled, bars are tightening screening, and one student told Fox News Digital she was drugged at a bar over the weekend and later found passed out in her dorm hallway. "People are scared to leave their dorm rooms," she wrote on Facebook.

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1,495,667 views • 14 days ago

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AWAITING ANSWERS: Expedited toxicology results could provide a crucial clue into what caused the deaths of two Ole Miss students as investigators determine exactly what was in their systems. Kratom was found at the scenes where junior Robert Strang and freshman Aidan Hamilton died, but authorities have not determined whether it or any other substance played a role. Meanwhile, police raided a local vape store, arrested two people and seized 500 units of kratom. Officials have not confirmed whether those arrests are directly connected to the deaths. Follow all the developing details on this story with the FOX News app: | FOX & Friends Madison Scarpino

AWAITING ANSWERS: Expedited toxicology results could provide a crucial clue into what caused the deaths of two Ole Miss students as investigators determine exactly what was in their systems. Kratom was found at the scenes where junior Robert Strang and freshman Aidan Hamilton died, but authorities have not determined whether it or any other substance played a role. Meanwhile, police raided a local vape store, arrested two people and seized 500 units of kratom. Officials have not confirmed whether those arrests are directly connected to the deaths. Follow all the developing details on this story with the FOX News app: | FOX & Friends Madison Scarpino

Fox News

216,458 views • 12 days ago

What does a child slave from Sudan have in common with the hostages taken on October 7? More than you’d ever imagine. Simon Deng was kidnapped and enslaved by Islamic jihadists—the same ideology responsible for the horrors in Israel. But instead of turning to hate, Simon turned to hope. He’s now fighting for the Israeli hostages because he knows their pain-he lived it. Because he knows what it’s like to be forgotten by the world…and because, as he says, Israel was the only country that ever tried to help his people. Their pain is not so different. And neither is their strength. The African Jewish Alliance

What does a child slave from Sudan have in common with the hostages taken on October 7? More than you’d ever imagine. Simon Deng was kidnapped and enslaved by Islamic jihadists—the same ideology responsible for the horrors in Israel. But instead of turning to hate, Simon turned to hope. He’s now fighting for the Israeli hostages because he knows their pain-he lived it. Because he knows what it’s like to be forgotten by the world…and because, as he says, Israel was the only country that ever tried to help his people. Their pain is not so different. And neither is their strength. The African Jewish Alliance

Montana Tucker

46,149 views • 1 year ago

Some of us have decided to read text messages sent from the last moments of people’s lives in Israel. Yes, this is disturbing and heartbreaking, but it’s something I have decided to do in hopes it can continue to convey the depth of pain and suffering the Jewish people and the Israeli population are experiencing as we defend our right to exist. #TheLastMessage #HamasisISIS

Some of us have decided to read text messages sent from the last moments of people’s lives in Israel. Yes, this is disturbing and heartbreaking, but it’s something I have decided to do in hopes it can continue to convey the depth of pain and suffering the Jewish people and the Israeli population are experiencing as we defend our right to exist. #TheLastMessage #HamasisISIS

Mayim Bialik

3,167,209 views • 3 years ago

British political strategist Thomas Corbett-Dillon caused an uproar recently by suggesting that indigenous Brits are the victims of "a genocide". "There is an indigenous population that have lived on that island for thousands of years." "It is being taken over by different people that are not indigenous to that land, and I think that's a sad thing to happen." "If there was an island of indigenous people in the Pacific, and all of a sudden a bunch of white people moved there and were having babies, and the number one name in that country became Tom... the UN would be there saying this is outrageous." "But do it to England and no one seems to care."

British political strategist Thomas Corbett-Dillon caused an uproar recently by suggesting that indigenous Brits are the victims of "a genocide". "There is an indigenous population that have lived on that island for thousands of years." "It is being taken over by different people that are not indigenous to that land, and I think that's a sad thing to happen." "If there was an island of indigenous people in the Pacific, and all of a sudden a bunch of white people moved there and were having babies, and the number one name in that country became Tom... the UN would be there saying this is outrageous." "But do it to England and no one seems to care."

Wide Awake Media

103,393 views • 6 months ago

This bag of medicine costs about $8 a bottle in the U.S. In Cuba, the same supply can cost the equivalent of a month’s income or simply isn’t available at all. Multiply that across thousands of bottles and you’re looking at something worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in a country being economically strangled to death. Basic medicine turned into a luxury, priced out of reach for ordinary people. This is what passes as “foreign policy” for the American empire. That’s why I’m going to Cuba, not to sell this medicine, but to deliver it to the people who deserve and need it the most.

This bag of medicine costs about $8 a bottle in the U.S. In Cuba, the same supply can cost the equivalent of a month’s income or simply isn’t available at all. Multiply that across thousands of bottles and you’re looking at something worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in a country being economically strangled to death. Basic medicine turned into a luxury, priced out of reach for ordinary people. This is what passes as “foreign policy” for the American empire. That’s why I’m going to Cuba, not to sell this medicine, but to deliver it to the people who deserve and need it the most.

YourFavoriteGuy

80,065 views • 6 months ago