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Hamid R Tavakoli1, Andrew C Buchholz1, Ishraq K Kabir1
1is the head of the Psychiatry Consult Service and Research for the department of psychiatry and is a psychiatry resident at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Virginia. is a surgical intern at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. is an intern at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania. is an intern at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Dr. Tavakoli also is an associate professor at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, and Eastern Virginia Medical School.
Abstract:
Kratom, a drug that produces similar adverse effects like those produced by opioids in patients who have overdosed or are going through withdrawal, has grown in popularity and availability.
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