The Growing Toll of America's Booming Kratom Industry

American use of the Southeast Asian plant kratom has grown dramatically in recent years, spurring both a lucrative industry and national lobbying effort while worrying health experts who fear its addictive effects and point to thousands of related deaths. In this Bloomberg Originals documentary, we reveal how the unregulated substance is being promoted and even made more potent, and how some users are ending up dead.

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