Thousands Say Kratom Cured Their Addiction, Government Says It’s Another Opioid 8 years ago
A deciding rule to tell whether some chemical or plant is an addictive opioid: if people are using it to "lessen their withdrawal symptoms from opioids".
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It's an opioid. (Or rather, contains opioids—more than one, by the way!)
Every purported "non-addictive opioid substitute" in history has turned out to be an opioid. If it acts like an opioid and quacks like an opioid, assume it is one.
Try:
https://erowid.org/references/refs_view.php?ID=7348
(linked from https://erowid.org/plants/kratom/kratom_basics.shtml)