KEY POINTS

Kratom can induce opioid-like dependence, sometimes leading to addiction.

Withdrawal symptoms from kratom are comparable to those from heroin addiction.

Mental health experts emphasize the need for public awareness about kratom's risks.

Chad Butterfield is in a rebuilding phase, working to mend his relationships, his career and his faith in the future. The Holladay, Utah, man is also, at age 40, fighting a battle, trying to resist an expensive, all-consuming craving for something he thought was going to help him give up his unhealthy addiction to alcohol. Instead, he got hooked on something else.

Tiffanie Brown’s on another battlefield, facing the same foe. She was suffering from migraines and ulcers when someone recommended a “safe, natural” product that would help. Like B

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