{"id":30099,"date":"2026-04-19T13:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=30099"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:55:06","slug":"a-look-at-the-wild-west-of-synthetic-kratom-which-doctors-are-calling-more-potent-than-fentanyl-whyy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/a-look-at-the-wild-west-of-synthetic-kratom-which-doctors-are-calling-more-potent-than-fentanyl-whyy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look At the ‘Wild West’ Of Synthetic Kratom, Which Doctors are Calling ‘More Potent Than Fentanyl’\u2014WHYY<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Corneliu Stanciu, an assistant professor of psychiatry,\u00a0 explains how kratom emerged as a dangerous, potent new drug for opioid users. \"I tried to put out some public education alerts and nobody was interested,\" said Stanciu. Kratom poisonings have surged by 1,200%, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, aided by the third wave of kratom products, which Stanciu characterizes as \"products that look absolutely nothing like kratom.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read article<\/em><\/a>\u2014Corneliu Stanciu, an assistant professor of psychiatry,\u00a0 explains how kratom emerged as a dangerous, potent new drug for opioid users. “I tried to put out some public education alerts and nobody was interested,” said Stanciu. Kratom poisonings have surged by 1,200%, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, aided by the third wave of kratom products, which Stanciu characterizes as “products that look absolutely nothing like kratom.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-7Pt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30100,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099\/revisions\/30100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}