If you’re seeking opiate addiction recovery, you’ve almost certainly considered solutions like therapy and medication. Suboxone, Subutex, and Methadone are common treatments that are used in medical ...

For many patients, prescription painkillers are life-changing. They relieve chronic pain and make it easier to go about your day. Unfortunately, prescription painkillers can lead to addiction. Those ...

Kratom leaves, capsules, and powder are scattered on a table. Source: Anucha Cheechang/ iStock You may have noticed a variety of products marked “contains kratom” in health food stores, vape shops, or ...

Kratom is marketed as a natural remedy for pain or stress, but experts say taking it comes with risk. Taking kratom can affect your heart, liver, digestion, brain and mood. It’s even been linked to ...

One man who suffered from opioid addiction said kratom has kept him clean.

When Kevin Ward eats at a restaurant, he always draws a cartoon of President Lincoln on the bill. Art is his passion. Ward, who lives in Wilmington, is a meat cutter at Whole Foods. Although he ...

Daniel Carter, 23, said he turned to kratom to break his opioid addiction but instead, it pulled him right back in. Now sober, he and others are warning about the unregulated product found in gas ...

The move comes after the board, along with Gov. Mike DeWine, put in place a 180-day ban on all kratom products that were not ...

Evan Garcia is quick to praise kratom, a finely ground powder made from the leaves of Mitragyna speciosa, a tropical evergreen tree in Southeast Asia, as a life-saver. The Colorado Springs native ...

Sale of the semi-synthetic substance that comes from the Kratom plant, was barred through an emergency rule from the state ...