Grief-stricken parents warn others their kids died from common ‘all-natural’ substance

By Kevin Haggerty

As the U.S. Food & Drug Administration acted to restrict certain kratom products, grieving mothers addressed the real consequences the “all-natural” substances had after losing their sons.

While the distrust in the medical industry was undoubtedly enhanced as a result of the positions taken in response to COVID, resistance to pharmacological intervention had long existed to some varying extents. After their own sons had perished in seeking holistic alternatives to treat personal ailments, mothers Pam Mauldin and Jennifer Young spoke with the New York Post to increase awareness about the dangers of addictive versions of kratom.

“I have to go to the cemetery, and I hate going to the cemetery. He shouldn’t be there,” Mauldin told the newspaper, having recounted the loss of her 37-year-old son, Jordan McKibban, who wouldn’t take ibuprofen but instead used kratom to ease the pain of his arthritis because it was “all-natural.”

In April 2022, she had been the one to break down the door to her son’s bathroom and desperately attempt CPR on him after finding him unresponsive. The autopsy later revealed the compound mitragynine in the kratom he’d consumed with lemonade earlier in the day had led to McKibban’s death.

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