Do You Get What You Paid For? An Examination of Products Advertised as Kratom

• Published in: Journal of psychoactive drugs Vol. 48; no. 5; pp. 330 - 335
• Main Authors: Griffin, O. Hayden, Daniels, Jace A., Gardner, Elizabeth A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Routledge 19.10.2016; Haight Ashbury Publications
• Subjects: Chemicals; Drug purity; Humans; Ingredients; kratom; Mitragyna - chemistry; mitragynine; Plant Preparations - chemistry; Plant Preparations - standards; Psychotropic drugs; Secologanin Tryptamine Alkaloids - isolation & purification; Street Drugs - chemistry; Street Drugs - standards; Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology; kratom; Drug purity; mitragynine

Although some novel psychoactive substances (NPS) are newly discovered chemicals, others are traditional or indigenous substances that are introduced to new markets. One of these latter substances is a plant many people refer to as kratom. Indigenous to Southeast Asia and used for a variety of instr...