“We are going to make sure that new chemical compounds that are being used to blend or substitute 7-OH derivatives will be included,” he told a news conference in Tampa.<\/p>\n
“Florida medical examiners have linked at least 587 overdose deaths to 7-OH and related chemical compound drugs,” he said.<\/p>\n
The chemicals covered include 7-hydroxymitragynine, mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, 7-acetoxymitragynine, 9-hydroxycorynantheidine, 10-hydroxycorynantheidine, MGM-15, and MGM-16.<\/p>\n
The emergency rule says no product may contain more than 1 milligram of these chemicals per gram or milliliter. It also says any product containing any 7-OH or related compounds must also contain at least 100 times more mitragynine by mass. This ensures that super concentrated formulas won’t be sold.<\/p>\n
These products are sold in gas stations, or vape shops, or online. They include gummies, tablets, drink mixes, shots, teas, and concentrated liquid extracts. <\/p>\n
Brands include Hydroxy, 7Tabz, and 7-OHMZ. They are sometimes marketed as pain relief, and some people who take them believe they can help them stop drugs or alcohol, doctors said. <\/p>\n
“They perceive it sometimes as a safer alternative,” said Thomas Nappe, the medical director of inpatient addiction medicine at Tampa General Hospital. The highly concentrated ingredients can be risky, he warned.<\/p>\n
“These products become more potent, they become more dangerous, they become much more addictive,” he added. “They are finding themselves suffering from severe dependency, severe tolerance in just a couple of days, and overdose and death is a very real risk,” Nappe said.<\/p>\n
People may experience tremors, hypertension, the elevated heart rate, severe anxiety, even seizures.<\/p>\n
All ages are affected, from three-month-old babies who are accidentally exposed, to people as old as 97, said Cory Howard, an emergency physician at TGH. <\/p>\n
“7-OH is deliberately designed to hide its dangers. It’s often labeled natural or made from a botanical extract. It’s marketed as a remedy for pain and anxiety, and it appeals to children with bright packaging and fruit flavors,” Howard said.<\/p>\n
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Patti Wheeler talked about losing her son, Wyatt, to the substance.<\/p>\n
“In recent years, we’ve seen a rising trend of exposure to these 7-OH products,” Howard added. “In the first four months of 2026, Florida Poison Control has already received 95 cases of calls of 7-OH and other derivatives. At this pace, we’re going to surpass our last year’s numbers.”<\/p>\n
Patti Wheeler said she lost her son to the products. He died having a seizure, just weeks after she learned he was consuming a powder, which he’d told her contained a harmless herbal supplement.<\/p>\n
“My son Wyatt died after using a kratom concentrate product, something that was 50 to 100 times more powerful than the powder he was taking,” Wheeler said.<\/p>\n
“I do not believe that Floridians should be a part of a nationwide experiment involving products that can be purchased in convenience stores and gas stations without the level of scrutiny that we expect from a substance that affects our bodies and minds.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida is expanding its crackdown on a byproduct of kratom, known as 7-OH, which can be stronger than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-316717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}