最新消息：肯尼迪部长称 kratom 中一种强效阿片类物质“使美国人的生命面临风险”，并宣布实施禁令。
NEW: Sec. Kennedy said a potent opioid in kratom "put American lives at risk" & announced a ban.
随后法庭披露，这种物质存在于死亡者使用的 kratom 中。
Soon it came out in court that the substance was in kratom used by people who died.
接着出现了一场倡导推动，导致卫生与公众服务部（HHS）撤销了禁令。
Next came an advocacy push that led to HHS reversing the ban.
卫生官员现在将允许作为天然产品销售的商品中保留一定水平的强效物质。这一变化可能有助于一位面临过失致死诉讼的共和党捐赠者。
Health officials will now allow some levels of a powerful substance to remain in products marketed as natural. The change could help a G.O.P. donor facing wrongful death lawsuits.