When pregnant women take kratom, their babies may suffer

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 09:20 in Health & Medicine

In 2018, two newborn babies in Buffalo experienced withdrawal as a result of their exposure to kratom in utero. One was described in a case report by University at Buffalo physicians, published earlier this month in the Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. It was titled “Natural drugs, not so natural effects: neonatal abstinence syndrome secondary to ‘kratom.’” “We published […]

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