Kratom: Natural Pain Relief in the Midst of America's Opioid Crisis
/Guest post by Chelsea Brotherton
In 2017, the United States Department of Health and Human Services declared a nationwide public health emergency regarding the opioid crisis in America. Since then, the statistics on opioid-related deaths have not improved; between 2019 and 2020, drug overdose deaths rose nearly 30%, with nearly 75% of those 91,799 deaths involving an opioid. Clearly, Americans are in pain — and we’re medicating ourselves to death. Thankfully, there’s a natural solution on the rise that has been used in traditional medicine practices for centuries. Enter: kratom.
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