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FILE - Marty Stuart performs during Marty Stuart's 16th Annual Late Night Jam at the Ryman Auditorium on June 7, 2017 in Nashville, Tenn. Stuart, along with Dean Dillon and Hank Williams Jr., will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File) 294

FLORIDA ¡ª Kratom is a natural plant native to Southeast Asia that has been used in the region for decades, but it's fairly new to the United States.Some people say it's helped them in reducing pain and has helped addicts recover. But others say it's dangerous and could even be deadly. Experts said it's been linked to deadly overdoses. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) identified 15 deaths connected to Kratom from 2014 to 2016. The FDA records at least 44 Kratom related deaths in the last decade. One of these deaths is 27-year-old Christopher Waldron. His mother, Laura Lamon says he was her only son and the love of her life.  On July 17th, 2017 she got a call from Tampa police. ¡°He [investigator] said your son is deceased. I lost it. I just started yelling and I don't remember much after that,¡± Lamon said. Lamon thought that he had overdosed on narcotics, but a month later she received an autopsy report that indicated the cause of death was intoxication by Kratom, and strictly Kratom, according to the Hillsborough medical examiner. "I was shocked and then when I got it. I thought, 'What is this?' I had found some things in his room and I saw the packages of what he had taken but I didn't know much about it,¡± Lamon said. Director of SalusCare Steven Hill says one of the biggest dangers with Kratom is that it¡¯s not regulated or monitored. ¡°You never know exactly what you're getting. Anything could be in the packaging. There could be different levels of the active substance,¡± Hill said. Lamon believes that if the plant was properly labeled, her son would have survived. ¡°There was no label on it at all. it didn't have a dosage amount, didn't have a warning label, didn't say don't mix it with this or that, if you have this condition, or whatever. a bottle of Tylenol has that on there,¡± Lamon said. She says that it is so devastating because her son didn¡¯t want to die. She doesn't necessarily want to see Kratom banned, but thinks it should be researched and much more regulated.¡°It absolutely should be banned, it¡¯s like playing a game of roulette,¡± Steven Hill, director of SalusCare, said. Adrianna Marrone, manager of Up in Smoke in the Cape says Kratom came to the U.S. recently, and now it¡¯s one of their best sellers. ¡°Just to help with the aches and pains and anxiety and depression,¡± Marrone said. A former addict, Amanda Raska, says that Kratom helped her overcome drugs. ¡°He told me about Kratom and that day I tried and I never touched another pill, it literally saved my life,¡± Rasksa said. Raska said she started using Kratom five months ago when a friend who was also an addict told her about it. Before using the plant, she couldn't get out of bed without taking prescription pills. ¡°It was a horrible life, I have 5 kids so i could not even take care of my children,¡± Raska said. She said that she grew up around addicts and has an addictive personality, but said Kratom isn¡¯t addicting. If she goes without it, there¡¯s no symptoms of withdrawal.Steven Hill says that he saw firsthand how people react to the drug. ¡°It¡¯s happened on our detox where people are coming in and the issue is with Kratom,¡± Hill said. Hill said the experience of taking Kratom can be described as a quick down feeling followed by hallucinations and visualizations. In 2016, there were less than 100 poison control calls regarding the drug, and by the middle of 2018, the number of calls were approaching 700. ¡°So we're seeing more and more use and we're seeing the health concerns and health issues also go up. ER visits spiked,¡± Hill said. In August 2016, the DEA announced an intent to ban Kratom, but after strong reaction from the public, it was labeled as pending analysis. ¡°We've seen and heard of people who have very bad reactions. people who have had to be hospitalized,¡± Hill said.  3982

Fewer women are scheduling mammograms due to COVID-19 fears, according to a local doctor.At TriStar Summit Medical Center, Dr. Rhonda Halcomb with Centennial Women¡¯s group, said they¡¯re being careful.¡°From the time that you check in here, patients are pre-screened and screened, we provide masks and hand sanitizer here in the building, and here in the office," said Halcomb.Even though we¡¯re in the middle of a pandemic, she said routine mammograms are still important.¡°Breast cancer, in general, is the number one cancer in women.¡±She¡¯s sad that fewer people are showing up, or postponing their routine checks.¡°It breaks my heart in general that people are scared to take care of themselves,¡± Dr. Halcomb said.First hand, she has seen how mammograms can save lives.¡°Breast cancer to me has affected several of my family members. I had early breast cancer detected by screening.¡±Dr. Halcomb said death rates have decreased since the 1970s due to more people getting diagnosed with breast cancer - early.¡°Mammograms detect breast cancer before someone can feel a breast cancer before the doctor can feel the breast cancer in the breast,¡± Dr. Halcomb said, ¡°Mammograms are just as important as they¡¯ve ever been.¡±Actress Kelly Preston just died from breast cancer at 57-years-old. She leaves behind her husband, John Travolta. They were married for 28 years.WTVF's Alexandra Koehn was first to report. 1408

FedEx said Monday they are planning to hire 70,000 seasonal workers as they head into the holidays.In a hiring statement on its website, the shipping company said most of those hired for its "peak season" would be added to its FedEx Ground network."As our team of more than 500,000 team members is busy preparing to deliver the holidays, we once again expect to see a large number of packages traverse our global network over the 2020 peak holiday shipping season," FedEx said. "In order to provide the best possible service during this busy time of the year, FedEx is increasing hours for some existing employees and boosting our workforce with seasonal positions, as needed." The Memphis-based company added that it expanded FedEx Ground¡¯s year-round Sunday residential coverage to nearly 95% of the U.S. population, which went into effect Sunday. 857

For anyone who used to play with slot cars as a child, Sweden's new electrified road might bring back some memories.In the first of its kind, the Scandinavian country is trialling the world's first public road which allows electric vehicles to recharge while driving. Similar to a slot-car track, vehicles are able to connect to an electric rail that's embedded into the road.Sweden has a goal of achieving a completely fossil fuel free vehicle fleet by 2030, so this electrified road is part of several projects the Swedish Transport Administration has created to develop and test technologies that may be able to help the country reach its target.In this particular project, 'eRoadArlanda', electricity is transferred via a movable arm that attaches to the tracks built into the middle of the road. While the system is designed with the capacity to feed heavier vehicles such as trucks, it's also developed to work for cars and buses.When vehicles approach the track, a sensor from the car or truck detects the electrified rail and the movable arm lowers from underneath the vehicle and inserts into the rail. The arm has been designed to be flexible, providing the car, or truck, the freedom to move around the road without disconnecting."One of the most important issues of our time is the question of how to make fossil-free road transportation a reality," Hans S?ll, chairman of the eRoadArlanda says."We now have a solution that will make this possible, which is amazing. Sweden is at the cutting edge of this technology, which we now hope to introduce in other areas of the country and the world."The track stretches along two kilometers (1.2 miles) and has been installed on public road "893" just 30 minutes outside of Stockholm.The eRoad has many advantages, S?ll says. If implemented it will mean electric vehicle batteries can be smaller -- and therefore lighter -- because they won't need to retain as much charge, the vehicles will then be cheaper to manufacture and will ultimately be more sustainable.For a heavy truck to be 100% electric, he explains, it would need a battery that weighs 40 tonnes. But if technology like the eRoad was readily available, the truck's battery would be able to weigh as little as 600 kilograms.It would also fix a wider issue that many electric vehicle owners face: The worry and inconvenience of keeping vehicles charged."Today you're not 100% sure how far you can go with your battery but if you have a combination of electric roads you will feel a little bit more confident that you'll get where you want to go," S?ll says.The technology is also safe and adverse weather such as rain, snow and ice should not cause any major issues thanks to draining and usual maintenance. The electricity also isn't a risk to humans or animals."There's no electricity at the surface and the rail is only electrified if an actual authorized vehicle is passing, so if you don't have an electric vehicle that's authorized to use the electricity, the electricity will not be turned on at all -- it will not be on 24/7."There will also be plenty of signage around the area indicating the road is electrified and the system is equipped with safety circuits.S?ll says while the new project cost €6.4 million (.7 million) to develop, if it were more widely implemented across the country it would eventually work out less than €1 million (.2 million) per kilometer to build.That is, if the government decides to implement it nationally."The Government wants to test one or two additional technologies ... that will then be evaluated in two years or so, (and) after that they will pick out one of those technologies (that have been tested) to build a longer pilot stretch that will be between 20 and 40 kilometers," he says.For now, the eRoad will be used and trialled for two years by a truck carrying freight in order to determine how well the innovation works under various weather conditions and in conjunction with normal road traffic.The-CNN-Wire 3992