Ten participants in Skagit County drug court tested positive last month for kratom, a drug that is putting their status in the jail-alternative program in jeopardy.
Drug court is designed to try to rehabilitate people with addiction problems who are facing drug charges. Participants must abstain from mood- or mind-altering substances or risk termination from the program.
Skagit County Prosecuting Attorney Rich Weyrich said this is the first time he has come across kratom since taking the job in 2007.
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