Almost on a whim last September, John Henry bought his first bottle of kratom. Standing in line at a gas station near the ...

Florida has declared 7-OH, a concentrated kratom byproduct, illegal due to its high potential for abuse and lack of accepted ...

Florida officials have taken emergency action to ban 7-OH, a synthetic drug extracted from kratom, by reclassifying it as a ...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Wednesday during a press conference in Tampa that his office is taking ...

Instead of banning them, legislature passed bills thoughtfully regulating their use, writes a New York City patient with ...

The Food and Drug Administration has warned that products using 7-hydroxymitragynine, also known as 7-OH, are more potent than morphine and could lead to a potential new opioid crisis. Florida has ...

The crackdown is not on the Kratom plant itself. Rather, it targets a highly concentrated byproduct that officials say is more potent and more dangerous.

Just two weeks after Louisiana became the seventh state to ban kratom entirely, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that an emergency rule ...

But kratom is no run-of-the mill caffeine drink. Medical experts say it can be highly addictive, producing effects similar to those of opioids and opiates. USA TODAY spoke with over 20 people who say ...

7-OH occurs naturally at low levels in the kratom plant, but the FDA is most concerned with products that contain 7-OH in ...

Citing an “immediate danger to the public health, safety and welfare,” Attorney General James Uthmeier on Wednesday issued an ...

Secretary Kennedy and Commissioner Makary have shown exceptional leadership in confronting one of the most urgent public ...