Resources
The research, fact sheets, alerts, and letters behind the campaign, ready to download and share with your community, your doctor, or your representatives.
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7-OH Truth Project issue briefing
7-OH Truth Project, September 2026
The coalition’s two-page briefing for the 90th Legislature: the chemistry and why a leaf-based line fails, federal action and the gap it leaves, Jonas’s story, and the ask to schedule kratom and its derivatives as controlled substances.
Download PDF 2 pages, 32 KB
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Jonas’s Law, counsel draft
7-OH Truth Project
The markup draft of Jonas’s Law, ready for sponsor review: a bill to classify kratom, synthetic kratom compounds, and kratom analogs as controlled substances, require toxicology testing and reporting of overdose deaths, and repeal the Kratom Consumer Health and Safety Protection Act.
Download PDF 5 pages, 112 KB
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Increases in kratom-related reports to poison centers, 2015 to 2025
CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, March 2026
The CDC analysis behind the 1,200% figure: 14,449 kratom exposure reports to poison centers over eleven years, a record 3,434 in 2025, and the shift from leaf to high-potency alkaloid products.
Download PDF 7 pages, 350 KB
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7-OH, an assessment of the scientific data and toxicological concerns
FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, 2025
The FDA’s review of what is known about 7-hydroxymitragynine: how it acts on opioid receptors, how concentrated products differ from kratom leaf, and the scientific basis for the agency’s recommendation to schedule concentrated 7-OH.
Download PDF 24 pages, 649 KB
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Facts about kratom and 7-OH
Drug Policy Alliance, April 2026
A plain-language fact sheet on what kratom and 7-OH are, how they affect the body, and where the law stands.
Download PDF 5 pages, 81 KB
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7-OH emergency encounters by county
National Drug Early Warning System special report, May 2026
Suspected nonfatal overdose EMS encounters involving 7-OH, mitragynine, or kratom from January 2023 through April 2026: 3,672 nationally across 841 counties, with the highest-rate counties mapped by region.
Download PDF 3 pages, 4.7 MB
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Mitragynine derivatives and kratom byproducts
National Drug Early Warning System weekly briefing, issue 284, May 2026
A briefing on the analogs replacing 7-OH in the market, including mitragynine pseudoindoxyl and MGM-15, and what sentinel sites across the country are reporting.
Download PDF 15 pages, 12.8 MB
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Kratom and mitragynine alkaloid detections in fatal overdoses
Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, June 2026
A forensic toxicology public alert on the rising detection of mitragynine, 7-OH, and related alkaloids in Oklahoma overdose deaths, with case counts from 2025.
Download PDF 1 page, 261 KB
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Letter to tobacco retailers on kratom and 7-OH sales
California Department of Public Health, January 2026
The letter California sent to licensed tobacco retailers explaining that selling kratom and 7-OH products for consumption is unlawful under state law, and that the department can embargo and seize them.
Download PDF 1 page, 329 KB
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Texas Overdose Data to Action program overview
Texas Department of State Health Services, August 2024
How the state’s overdose surveillance program gathers, analyzes, and shares drug poisoning data, and why drug poisoning is every Texan’s problem.
Download PDF 2 pages, 398 KB
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Reporting drug poisoning events in Texas
Texas Overdose Data to Action
Which Texas reporting systems exist for drug poisonings, who can report to each, and how, from anonymous community reports to hospital reporting.
Download PDF 2 pages, 144 KB
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Kratom safety and toxicology in the public health context
Henningfield et al., Frontiers in Pharmacology, June 2024
A peer-reviewed review of kratom safety and toxicology data, and the research the authors say is needed to inform regulation.
Download PDF 17 pages, 889 KB