Bonneville County Coroner’s Office issues urgent public warning: Dangers of Kratom use confirmed in local fatalities

"This is a wake-up call for our community," Bonneville County Coroner Shante Sanchez said. "To put this into perspective, Kratom is now implicated in approximately 18% of the drug overdose fatalities in our country over the last year and a half. The highest concentration of mitragynine observed in one of these fatalities was 12,000 ng/mL, which is the highest I have ever seen at nearly four times our national laboratory's range typically associated with overdose of this substance."