Sentences with phrase «on kratom»

Majumdar hopes a DEA ban on kratom won't happen; it would severely restrict access, making research much harder to do.

But, acting on anecdotal reports of people becoming dependent on kratom, six states, including Vermont and Indiana, have banned the sale and use of the herb.

Further experiments on the kratom alkaloids showed that when they activate MORs, the receptors turn on pathways independent of a protein called β - arrestin.

Not exact matches

Advocates for kratom tend to argue that the FDA is protecting big pharmaceutical interests — or at the very least isn't keeping an open mind — by cracking down on the product.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continued to step up its aggressive stance against kratom on Tuesday, employing — for the first time — a relatively new power to order mandatory recalls.

What's striking about the FDA's move is that the mandatory kratom recall order is based on a power the agency gained under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, a major piece of reform legislation signed by former President Barack Obama in 2011.

In August 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it was cracking down on a supplement called kratom.

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday ordered a mandatory recall of a Las Vegas company's powdered kratom products, because salmonella was found in the herbal supplement.