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Streator nurses urge city council to ban kratom citing ER visits, withdrawal cases · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Streeter nurses urge city council to ban cretum citing er
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  Speaker 1: visits withdrawal cases. Written by Emily BB, This article is
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  Speaker 1: OSF nurses urge the Strator City Council on Wednesday to
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  Speaker 1: prohibit the retail sale of cretum and seven hydroxymitrajnine products,
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  Speaker 1: telling council members that patients are arriving in emergency rooms
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  Speaker 1: with withdrawal symptoms that are difficult to treat, and that
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  Speaker 1: neighboring communities have already moved to ban the substances. Five
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  Speaker 1: nurses from OSF Healthcare who work in local emergency rooms
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  Speaker 1: and intensive care units, presented to the council, describing credom
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  Speaker 1: as an unregulated product sold at gas stations and smoke
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  Speaker 1: shops that is marketed as natural but can cause severe
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  Speaker 1: health problems. Natural doesn't necessarily mean that it's safe, said
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  Speaker 1: Samantha Rivers, who has been a nurse for fourteen years
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  Speaker 1: and works in the ER and ICU. The nurses said
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  Speaker 1: patients who have used concentrated kretum or seven OH products
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  Speaker 1: are presenting with unpredictable symptoms that are difficult to treat,
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  Speaker 1: often requiring prolonged emergency care, intensive monitoring, and in severe
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  Speaker 1: cases ICU admission Symptoms include anxiety, rapid heart rate, agitation, nausea, vomiting, tremors,
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  Speaker 1: and signs of dependence and withdrawal. These patients are really
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  Speaker 1: difficult to manage and require prolonged admissions to the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: long ICU stays, and it's taking like three, four or
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  Speaker 1: five staff members to take care of them at a time,
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  Speaker 1: said OSF nurse cattle In Raspin, and they are really
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  Speaker 1: difficult to get comfortable. There is no FDA approved treatment
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  Speaker 1: for creatom withdrawal and no reversal agent, meaning medical staff
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  Speaker 1: can only manage symptoms. Some patients who previously used heroin
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  Speaker 1: have turned to cratum as a substitute because it is
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  Speaker 1: available at gas stations. The nurses said. Sometimes these patients
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  Speaker 1: are also patients that are coming off of heroin and
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  Speaker 1: are thinking, okay, this is another product that maybe can
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  Speaker 1: substitute for heroin use and is sold in the gas station,
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  Speaker 1: so it must be okay to take, said OSF nurse
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Armstrong. And then they're fully withdrawing off of these items.
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  Speaker 1: A family member of a patient who died by suicide
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  Speaker 1: came to a council meeting in another community, telling officials
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  Speaker 1: that cretim addiction contributed to the death. The nurses said.
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  Speaker 1: The Drug Enforcement Administration has announced its intent to classify
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  Speaker 1: high concentration seven SOH products as a Schedule one narcotics,
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  Speaker 1: the same category as heroin, LSD and MDMA. According to
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  Speaker 1: data presented Wednesday, thirteen percent of recorded creatum exposures resulted
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  Speaker 1: in severe outcomes, and states with retail bands had significantly
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  Speaker 1: lower rates of poison center exposures, severe medical outcomes and hospitalization.
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  Speaker 1: Since national tracking began, fifty three poison center cases related
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  Speaker 1: to seven OH have been reported in just three months,
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  Speaker 1: and seven OH is thirteen times more likely than regular
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  Speaker 1: credom to cause severe outcomes, The nurses said. Neighboring communities
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  Speaker 1: have already acted. Seneca banned cretum products in March, Ottawa
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  Speaker 1: in April, and Marseille in June. Pontiac is moving toward
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  Speaker 1: a ban, and Naperville has the issue on its agenda
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  Speaker 1: this month. You have the ability to regulate all of
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  Speaker 1: this and to help out all these people who are
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  Speaker 1: hooked on cretum. Rivers told the council, you can create
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  Speaker 1: an ordinance to ban this in the town. The council
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  Speaker 1: discussed scheduling a special meeting on September second to consider
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  Speaker 1: an ordinance. The nurses provided sample orsinances from Normal and
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  Speaker 1: Ottawa for the council to review. Fire Chief Brian Park
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  Speaker 1: said the city has seen an increase in emergency calls
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  Speaker 1: related to cretum and supported looking into a ban. It's
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  Speaker 1: obviously not an easy drug to take care of, he said.
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  Speaker 1: It starts as a stimulant and ends up as a depressant,
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  Speaker 1: so the er folks are seeing wild swings in people's behalfhavior.