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August 30, 2016
Contact: DEA Public Affairs
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DEA Announces Intent to Schedule Kratom

SE Asian drug is imminent hazard to public safety

AUG 30 (WASHINGTON) - The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) today announced its intention to place the active materials in the kratom plant into Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act in order to avoid an imminent hazard to public safety. Mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine are found in kratom, which is a tropical tree indigenous to Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, and other areas of Southeast Asia. The announcement was made in the U.S. Federal Register and can be found by following this link.

Kratom is abused for its ability to produce opioid-like effects and is often marketed as a legal alternative to controlled substances. Law enforcement nationwide has seized more kratom in the first half of 2016 than any previous year and easily accounts for millions of dosages intended for the recreational market, according to DEA findings. In addition, kratom has a high potential for abuse, has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and has a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision. These three factors constitute a Schedule I controlled substance according to the Controlled Substances Act passed by Congress in 1970.

Kratom has been seized by law enforcement in various forms, including powder, plant, capsules, tablets, liquids, gum/resin, and drug patch. Because the identity, purity levels, and quantity of these substances are uncertain and inconsistent, they pose significant adverse health risks to users.

From February 2014 to July 2016, over 55,000 kilograms of kratom material were encountered by law enforcement at various ports of entry within the United States. Additionally, another 57,000+ kilograms of kratom material offered for import into the United States between 2014 and 2016 are awaiting an FDA admissibility decision. Together, this material is enough to produce over 12 million doses of kratom. The FDA has also warned the public not to use any products labeled as containing kratom due to concerns about toxicity and potential health impacts. In addition, FDA has issued and updated two import alerts related to kratom products. Kratom has been on DEA’s list of drugs and chemicals of concern for several years.

The American Association of Poison Control Centers identified two exposures to kratom from 2000 and 2005. Between 2010 and 2015, U.S. poison centers received 660 calls related to kratom exposure. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) found that kratom abuse leads to agitation, irritability, tachycardia, nausea, drowsiness, and hypertension. Health risks found in kratom abusers include hepatotoxicity, psychosis, seizure, weight loss, insomnia, tachycardia, vomiting, poor concentration, hallucinations, and death. DEA is aware of 15 kratom-related deaths between 2014 and 2016.

Source: https://www.dea.gov/divisions/hq/2016/hq083016.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (clearnet)

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DEA will ban chemicals contained in kratom, a popular herbal supplement
Joe Raedle/Getty Images

By Eric Boodman @ericboodman

August 30, 2016

https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/30/kra ... chedule-1/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday announced its intention to temporarily ban the chemicals contained in kratom, a popular herbal supplement that has been widely used as a way to self-treat chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, and a number of other conditions.

Kratom, a plant from Southeast Asia that activates some of the same receptors as opioids, can be easily purchased online and in smoke shops. Although consumers have embraced the supplement as a painkiller and in some cases as a replacement for opioids, physicians worry about users who turn to kratom to try to wean themselves off opioids without seeking professional help. They also worry that it may be adulterated, given how little the substance is regulated.

The Food and Drug Administration has been trying to crack down on the substance, banning its import and ordering seizures of illegally packaged kratom product. But because the substance is officially considered an herbal supplement, the FDA has had little power to regulate its contents. A handful of states have banned it as well.

Now, however, the DEA has announced plans to temporarily classify two of kratom’s psychoactive chemicals as Schedule 1 — the same category in which heroin, LSD, marijuana, and ecstasy are listed. The two chemicals are called mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine. By banning the active chemicals, the DEA is making sure that both the plant and any synthetic versions of it are included in the new regulation.

The DEA can temporarily move substances to Schedule 1 for up to two years when it believes they present a public health crisis. A spokeswoman for the agency, Barbara Carreno, said that during that time the Department of Health and Human Services needs to study the substance in question.

If their studies find that it is indeed as much of a public health threat as the DEA suspected, then it will remain banned. If not, the substance will revert to being legal.

“It’s a very tragic day,” said Susan Ash, the founder and director of the American Kratom Association, an advocacy group that works to keep the substance legal.

The issue is more than just work-related for Ash, who used kratom to wean herself off opiates to treat the chronic pain she attributes to Lyme disease. She still takes kratom every day to help control her pain.

“This just ripped my quality of life right out from under me,” she said. “This is the plant that returned me to being a productive member of society, and I truly fear for my future, and I fear for all of the people who found kratom to be a solution for them to get off things like heroin. I foresee a large jump in the already epidemic proportions of opiate deaths in this country.”

Ash and other kratom advocates insist that the substance is no more addictive than coffee, and that as long as it is unadulterated, it is safe for adults to consume. They claim that it is impossible to overdose because consuming too much kratom will make you throw up.

Emergency room doctors and toxicologists, on the other hand, have seen kratom interact negatively with other drugs. In the most extreme cases, seizures have been reported.

“There needs to be some oversight as to what kind of products are being sold in the interest of consumer safety,” Oliver Grundmann, a pharmacologist at the University of Florida, told STAT in late July, a month before the DEA’s announcement.

He added, though, that he is “not necessarily saying that everything related to the plant should be put in Schedule 1. We have seen the damage that that can do to a drug with promising pharmacological properties… For me it’s a death sentence. Once you put a plant and its ingredients into DEA Schedule 1, it’s very hard to do research on it, and it will become very hard to move forward with any positive developments because there is such a stigma associated.”

It was not immediately clear when the temporary ban would go into effect. The notice released Tuesday said the ban would take effect no sooner than the end of September, to give those who manufacture, distribute, or take kratom enough time to get rid of whatever they have.

Eric Boodman can be reached at eric.boodman@statnews.com
Follow Eric on Twitter @ericboodman

In cities all across the United States, motherfuckers are dying from juiced up smack at alarming rates and U-47700 is still readily available from China.

It's all about big pharma making their money isn't it?

Seems I saw a thing the other day, more people are dying from the chemotherapy than they are the cancer itself.

I really shake my head, and feel terrible for the world we live in.

Moronic bastards at the helm, steering the ship straight into the abyss.

https://www.unodc.org/documents/evaluat ... LY2013.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The obvious answer is even if you think the isolated chemical constituents of particular plants should be controlled, there is never any reason to control raw plant material. There simply is no plant so dangerous it should be banned, but raw plants can't be patented or monetized as IP, so they are a threat to Big Pharma. It's all about protecting the interests of dirtbag billionaires.

Maker of Deadly Fentanyl Kicks in Half a Million Dollars to Defeat Pot Legalization in Arizona

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/maker-dea ... on-arizona" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

this guy might have just saved two lives while endangering 3 plus public

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi ... seat-video" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Shame porn. It allows us to point and feel superior while doing nothing for the victims. Meanwhile, the maker of fentanyl is bankrolling the campaign against legal cannabis in Arizona and the opium crops in Afghanistan have expanded dramatically under the corrupt US-friendly colonial government. The US opioid epidemic is, besides, largely the result of the neoliberal economic policies that are sacred to both the Democratic and Republican Parties that run the US and the effects of those policies on a disappearing middle class abandoned by the government.

More people are dying from chemo than cancer? So the people who didn't take chemo would have lived long lives without? Obviously chemo is not the cure that we need for cancer but the study surely didn't say that no chemo or better than none or that there was a better choice.

Researchers from Public Health England and Cancer Research UK performed a groundbreaking study examining for the first time the numbers of cancer patients who died within 30 days of beginning chemotherapy — indicating the treatment, not the cancer, was the cause of death.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/chemot ... Tt520lx.99" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Or read the study here:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanon ... S1470-2045(16" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)30383-7/abstract

So basically they are saying that some patients shouldn't have been given chemo because they were already in a state that was too weak to survive it. Basically nothing that we already didn't know. For the majority of patients survival rates are better with chemo than without.

When the end result is the same, why go through it? You're going to die anyhow, any good reason beyond profit to put your loved ones through hell?

My best friend had once described going through chemo as setting your body on fire and then just a light mist of rain as we were walking out of the oncology center felt as though he was being cut with millions of razor blades.

Certainly didn't help him, and since the oncologist told him when he was diagnosed that at stage 4 treatment option was futile he had 18 months?

Well he didn't accept that, took his chances with chemo and radiation, hoping for a miracle, he made it 11 months.

When the cancer came back it was more aggressive and the end result, he died at age 43.

saved my wife, gave my father another 8 years. but when your kid or wife gets cancer you can certainly not use chemo if you prefer.

I guess it all depends on how hard you want to fight? I don't have kids, and if I were to be in a position where the quality of life is not worth the agony of the treatment, knowing that inevitable outcome which awaits us all, I don't think I'd go through with it.

This world is pretty much fucked and the longer I stay alive the more disappointing it seems to become.

Honestly the profits being sucked out of the populace from EpiPens to Anti-Virals to Insulin and who knows how many other drugs/chemical combinations really highlights the profits over patients mentality in the boardrooms that affect the overall healthcare system.

Many of the specialist clinics will run you through treatment so long as your insurance will pay too, but once you hit that lifetime maximum payout you're fucked

the land of the free , producing fenta, selling oxy and banning kratom .....

i heard already a few times from ex users that kratom is a wonder drug when you go turkey, knowing already a few kinds of turkeys from personal expirience (yes they are all different, but have one in common, they are mean... ) i give a shit about the "problems" of abuse "potential" as ppl cant open their eyes and see the real problems ...

most deaths coming from fenta and or smack, from meth psychosis, while all fine housewives double up doses every week, and fucking doc prescribing this shit ...


i have a radical view on things, no doc should prescribe a substance that he or she hasnt evaluated personally, just to get a glimpse of reality .... reading about side effects or turkey symptoms is just on a completley another level than expiriencing those

but we are already too late, jsut look at their success (having already 3 to 5 "legal" derivates from china, dosage in the µ range or less) - yes give this to your dumbed out nation and watch them fall ... blame somebody else, ban a plant and go to war to make money ....

Banning a Promising Cure for Opioid Addiction Is a Bad Idea

the DEA said that the Centers for Disease Control received 660 complaints about kratom (including reports of constipation and vomiting) between 2010 to 2015, out of 3 million calls annually reporting adverse reactions to assorted other foods and drugs. To put this number in perspective, the National Poison Data System registers more than 3,700 calls about caffeine annually, every year leading to multiple overdoses that result in death.


https://www.wired.com/2016/09/dea-wrong ... addiction/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

i could bet thos calls are from "educated" parents .. geeezzz

You guys can do your Kratom or whatever. I'm done drug testing. Done did it. Enjoy Marijuana and no drugs except coffee tea and moderate alcohol

I offer this advice. Change the name.

Maybe something like hey.. Stool Relief.

and get commercial time where you sell the idea of KrapNow... or KRAPMomemnt .. to long

and get a jingle song kinda like

I was walking in the fields one day and stepped in deep bear crap..(sung in deep voice)

Then I saw my horse was sneezing in the hay field.

I'm doing this on the fly ... I can refine it.

brb.. have a call

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Is Kratom the CBD of Opioids?


http://www.alternet.org/drugs/kratom-cbd-opioids" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I've never had it, but it kinda seems like it.

This was marketings fault. Kratom is EEEE VILLL .. so EEEE Vill it SOUNDS EEE VILL.

If it was done right in the first place it would have been called. Toe Jam Powder. As translated into English. E day ickquay imunjay. In original as best readable parts.

Would have flown ... swoop right under the DEA radars but nooooo...

So unnamed well connected soninlaw to a yahoo stomps his foot and calls the fool shot.
Doh

Yeah he had pierceings in the nose why? How'd you know that? You have Esp?

The Drug Enforcement Administration is reversing a widely criticized decision that would have banned the use of kratom,


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... m-for-now/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That makes no sense at all. The DEA *always* does the most wrong and stupidest things and only the wrong and the stupid. There must be a mistake, some imposter DEA or something.