FDA's Opioid Label For Kratom Called Misbranding By Marketers

FDA determined that ingredients in the herb kratom are opioids based on a "novel scientific analysis using a computational model developed by agency scientists," a process that the kratom industry dismissed as "utterly wrong."

"Based on the scientific information in the literature and further supported by our computational modeling and the reports of its adverse effects in humans, we feel confident in calling compounds found in kratom, opioids," said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Feb