No Toxicology. No Confirmed Cause. How Two Ole Miss Deaths Were Weaponized for the Kratom Prohibition Campaign.

Two Ole Miss students died September 21. The products found were not natural kratom but synthetic scheduled compounds. Toxicology is still pending. A synthetic opioid ten times more potent than fentanyl was circulating on campus simultaneously. The national press ran kratom overdose headlines anyway. This is the story behind the story.