Officials are warning Los Angeles County residents and health care providers after multiple fatal overdoses connected to the synthetic kratom compound known as 7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH).

"The County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner recently identified three additional fatal overdoses associated with 7-OH ingestion in LA County residents between the ages of 18 to 40 years old," the County of Los Angeles Public Health stated in a news release on Friday.

The three additional deaths bring the total number of overdoses tied to the synthetic substance to six. Officials said that while alcohol was present with 7-OH in many of the fatal overdose cases, in addition to other medications and sometimes illicit substances, the decedents were "otherwise generally healthy."

Retailers were urged to im

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