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Ventura County Behavioral Health alerts Board of Supervisors and public to dangers of kratom in the community – Ventura County News Channel Website

VENTURA, Calif. — On Tuesday, Aug. 12, Ventura County Behavioral Health briefed the Board of Supervisors on an emerging public health threat: kratom, an unregulated substance increasingly linked to overdoses and deaths in the county. The update was led by Dr. Tipu Khan of the Ventura County Medical Center’s Addiction Medicine program, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Christopher Young, Ventura County Behavioral Health’s Substance Use Services Medical …
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venturacounty.gov broke the news in on Thursday, August 14, 2025.
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