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    The non-profit American Botanical Council (ABC) filed comments on Dec. 1 in response to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Solicitation of Comments regarding the scheduling of two compounds in the kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) plant into Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
     
    ABC set forth to the DEA in its comments that emerging science supports viable potential medical uses of the alkaloids mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine in kratom, and that scheduling these substances into Schedule I of the CSA may impede current and future medical research efforts. ABC also acknowledged the actions that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—the principal federal agency with enforcement authority over food, dietary supplement, and drug products—has initiated to remove kratom products labeled as dietary supplements from the marketplace. ABC emphasized that these FDA enforcement efforts should continue to ensure that only kratom products that comply with FDA regulations are available in the market.
     
    On Aug. 31 the DEA filed a Notice of Intent to temporarily schedule the two substances, mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, into Schedule I of the CSA. These substances are found in kratom, a tree native to Southeast Asia, and have been the subject of increased media headlines over the past two years.
     
    Due to the almost 15,000 comments received from the public, Congressional members, and the scientific community, the DEA withdrew its original notice to temporarily schedule kratom alkaloids, and instead, opened a comment period until Dec. 1. The DEA intended to use this time to consider the extensive comments already received, to solicit additional information from the public, and to request FDA’s expedited scientific and medical evaluation and scheduling recommendation for these substances.  
     
    ABC has been reviewing the scientific literature related to kratom and recently published an extensive peer-reviewed article on this plant and the various issues related to its use. ABC’s review explores the complex science of kratom, and examines the data that the DEA cited to support the temporary scheduling of mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine. The article also served as the foundation to ABC’s comments to the DEA.
     
    ABC’s comments to the DEA stated that there is a body of evidence on kratom that demonstrates the medical and therapeutic potential of the plant and its constituents, in particular the potential benefits to alleviate the symptoms of opioid withdrawal and the management of pain. ABC noted that further research is needed to fully discover kratom’s medicinal value and to understand more fully the potential risks and safety considerations, such as addiction potential. However, ABC referenced medical research suggesting that kratom’s addictive potential is significantly less than that of conventional opiates.
     
    ABC also emphasized that by putting these substances on Schedule I, the medical research community will be subject to additional hurdles—such as obtaining a registration from the DEA (and likely a state registration), along with other security, inventory, and recordkeeping requirements—that may impede and/or curtail current and future research efforts.
     
    “ABC realizes that there are compelling scientific data to support kratom’s potential therapeutic use; there is also confusion about its safety profile,” said Mark Blumenthal, founder and executive director of ABC. “Our comments to DEA are intended to help ensure that appropriate scientific and medical research on this interesting plant and its biologically active constituents can continue with minimal regulatory hurdles.”
     
    To add further support to ABC’s position that DEA should not list these substances in Schedule I, ABC raised concerns regarding the data cited by the DEA to support the temporary scheduling. Specifically, ABC believes the safety profile of the plant is not wholly known, and that a more thorough investigation of the causality between kratom and adverse event reports provided by the poison control call center needs to be performed. For example, some of the data on adverse events cited by the DEA include use of kratom with various analgesic or sedative pharmaceutical drugs. Also, ABC noted that, in many cases, there was a lack of analytical testing of commercial kratom products to identify the possible presence of other substance(s) that may have contributed to the adverse reaction.
     
    ABC believes that the potential benefits of kratom warrant further scientific and medical investigation, and that putting kratom compounds on Schedule I would create excessive obstacles to research on a plant that may be beneficial to a large number of people.
     
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