ToxTime: Kratom - Should You Be Concerned?

What is Kratom? How is it used and why do people use it? In this ToxTime recording, USDTL's Joseph Jones, Ph.D., NRCC-TC for discusses kratom and the potential public health concerns that could come with it.

The webinar also featured conversation with guests:

- Mary Ellen Wright, Ph.D, Associate Professor in the East Tennessee State University School of Nursing
- Kirsten Smith, Ph.D, Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Translational Addition Medicine Branch at the National Institute on Drug Abuse

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0:00 Introduction
1:17 What is Kratom?
1:52 Traditional Use
2:57 How it is Consumed
3:19 Alkaloids of Interest
4:29 Two Different Effects
4:53 How it is Purchased
5:13 Products on the Market
5:46 Demographics
6:14 Motives for Use
6:49 Past Use
7:18 Co-Occurring Substance Use
8:17 Public Health Concerns
9:59 Legal Status
10:56 Introducing Dr. Kirsten Smith
11:47 What Are the Benefits?
14:45 What Are Some Public Health Concerns?
18:20 What Are the Next Steps for Research?
20:30 Prenatal Kratom Exposure - Case Study
22:56 Introducing Dr. Mary Ellen Wright
23:29 What Inspired Dr. Wright's Article?
26:48 What Were the Major Findings?
34:12 What Are Future Testing Implications?
38:51 What Are We Seeing at USDTL?
40:02 USDTL's Mission
41:02 Outro

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