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LOS ANGELES<\/strong> – There’s a new warning about a synthetic compound linked to several fatal overdoses in Los Angeles County<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kratom is being sold in everyday places like gas stations and smoke shops. Now a woman is sharing her powerful story of overcoming addiction to kratom products because she doesn\u2019t want others to go through the side effects that she went through.\u00a0<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “I was taking one before a spin class and it felt amazing,” said Beverly Hills resident, Julyet Berlen.\u00a0<\/p>\n She says she initially started taking a liquid kratom product for health reasons, not knowing what kratom was or how addicting the product could be.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I didn\u2019t think anything of it because there was no clear identification of what the ingredients were,” she said. “I got so addicted.”<\/p>\n She and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health are sounding the alarm on kratom products, which are unregulated.\u00a0<\/p>\n The department says they’re marketed as remedies for things like pain, anxiety and depression and sometimes promoted as dietary supplements.<\/p>\n The products themselves are sold in common places like gas stations and even online.<\/p>\n Health officials say high doses, and especially if used with alcohol or other sedatives, can cause serious side effects like addictions, withdrawals, severe respiratory issues and depression.<\/p>\n “I don\u2019t have money for rehab. I can’t take 10 days off, how am I going to take time off to quit something I didn\u2019t even know I was being slowly addicted to,” said Berlen.\u00a0<\/p>\n Luckily, she says she was able to quit with the help of supplements.<\/p>\n “This was the only way I was able to quit without going to rehab,” added Berlen.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health says three recent overdose deaths linked to synthetic kratom compounds involved alcohol \u2014 noting the victims were otherwise healthy.<\/p>\n Health officials also suggest having naloxone to reverse overdoses.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information for this story came from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and an interview with Julyet Berlen.\u00a0<\/p>\n Health<\/a>Los Angeles County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES – There’s a new warning about a synthetic compound linked to several fatal overdoses in Los…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":222935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,210,2961,224,6080,5337,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-222934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-county","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115195702456050778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}