The letter cited another survey which put the kratom-using population over 10 million, adding “informal discussions of these authors with kratom marketers suggests the volume of imports, sales and apparent consumer base has continued to grow, possibly accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic given widespread use of kratom to self-manage opioid use disorder.” Haddow scoffs at Palamar’s estimate, pointing to a letter written to the journal by AKA-paid researcher Jack Henningfield and others objecting to the methodology. If Palamar’s estimate is correct, then kratom is about six times more dangerous than it would appear using the AKA’s user figures. In a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine parsing 2019 survey sampling 56,000 Americans over age 12, Joseph Palamar of New York University estimated 2.3 million Americans had used kratom over the previous year. So few deaths, set next to such a large user base, would indeed suggest kratom is relatively safe.īut a broader independent drug-use survey estimated far fewer kratom users. Haddow said as many as 15 million people used kratom regularly in 2021 - triple the 5 million users the organization estimated in 2017. “So that’s focusing and tilting and putting your foot on the scale and not a thumb.and even with that they got 91. They flat-out lied,” Mac Haddow, the AKA’s lobbyist, said in a phone interview this past spring of the agency’s various tallies of kratom-related deaths. They also say that, even if kratom does kill people when taken at high doses, that doesn’t mean it isn’t safe. Nor did it kill my nephew James, or Alex Gorelik, or Caleb Sturgis or any of the other hundreds of people who have died after taking the drug, either alone or with other drugs or alcohol. The American Kratom Association, founded to advocate for the rights of kratom consumers, insists kratom has killed no one - each of the medical examiners’ reports notwithstanding. (Photo courtesy Sybil Coyne)ĭuring a 10-month investigation of the kratom industry, Courthouse News found numerous deaths officials attributed to kratom alone.
“But the laws of product liability and consumer protection are there to hold those who sell dangerous products accountable regardless or criminality.” Patrick Coyne with wife Sybil and daughter Lacy. “They think that because it’s not a crime to sell kratom that there’s a free-for-all,” he says. Talis Abolins, Coyne’s lawyer, says the suit is about sending a message to the kratom industry.
He also operates a website called, which purports to show how diabetes can be “reversed with diet and light exercise.” Kemp is a former vice chairman and chief information officer for the American Kratom Association. “Their motivation? The all-mighty Dollar!” Saying people are dying from a ‘kratom overdose,’” guest blogger Paul Kemp wrote. “It is very sad that these ambulance-chasing lawyers are spreading misinformation and attacking kratom, just like the FDA. Months after Patrick’s death, Kratom Divine published a blog post denying its product has caused any deaths. “It didn’t take all the pain away, but it took the edge away.” “All he said was it was all natural and it was better than taking opioids,” she said of her husband’s use of the drug. Sybil Coyne never thought kratom was a problem until the morning Patrick didn’t wake up. Coyne had 770 ng/mL of mitragynine in his blood with no other drugs in his system, according to his family’s lawyers. He was still in the chair the next morning when his wife Sybil got up, and like Paul, first responders could not revive him. July 9, 2019: Oregon boat mechanic Patrick Coyne, 39, went to sleep in his favorite chair while watching TV after consuming a large dose of Maeng Da kratom mixed with orange juice, as was his habit to cope with chronic back pain. The defendant, Elemental Prism dba Herb Stomp hired Andrew Newcomer and Roger Witt of the law firm of Ugrin Alexander Zadick, who argued that, because Hamilton did not support his sister or parents financially - indeed, it was more the other way around - they had no case. Hamilton’s sister Stephanie Catarah sued Stephen’s kratom supplier in federal court. Though he had abused opioids years before, he had no other drugs in his system except prescription antianxiety medicine and some Benadryl. The coroner determined his blood mitragynine level to be 2,500 nanograms per milliliter. Stephen Hamilton, a 38-year-old diabetic, wore sweatpants and a leg brace from a recent foot surgery and had blood in his mouth from biting his tongue as he died. on the morning of March 25, 2017, Jolynn Hamilton found her son dead in his house on West Broadway in Lewistown, Montana.
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