Kratom shops is provided form of leaves, powdered leaves, or gum. People smoke it, mix into tea or liquid to drink. Kratom’s leaves contain multiple alkaloids, including mitragynine. Mitragynine is more stonger than morphine. Effects are dose-dependent; lower doses cause a stimulant effect and higher doses create an opioid effect. Due to its serotogenic effect. Kratom is used to treat depression, opinoid pain and sleepliness.
Because opinoid analgesics sometimes cause respiratory depression, people are very reluctant to use them. Respiratory rate can drop to zero if these drugs are used in overdose. While study of effects of these drugs on animals like rats, their respiratory rate remained normal. This gives the hope of making a pain medicine as effective as morphine without the risk of death in overdose.