Step 1
Find your reps
Your ZIP code is enough. We show you who covers your block and what they decide.
A decision may be days away
Before the DEA acts, speak up.
Ask the administration not to impose an emergency Schedule I order on 7-OH and mitragynine pseudoindoxyl (MP), the same schedule as heroin. Ask for the evidence to be made public, and for a real chance for people to answer it.
Your two U.S. senators can press the DEA and HHS to withdraw it. Call both offices. It takes two minutes, and offices count the calls they get from constituents.
13 Nov Earliest possible order
Important: 13 November is not an automatic ban date. From that day the DEA may publish an order, and it takes effect the day it appears in the Federal Register. The 14 October notice does not open a public comment period.
Contact the decision-makers first
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DEA · Administrator Terrance Cole
571-362-3249Ask the DEA not to issue the temporary order, and to publish the analysis behind it and open a public process.
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Justice Department · Attorney General Todd Blanche
202-353-1555Ask the Justice Department to direct the DEA to withdraw or delay the emergency order.
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HHS · Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
1-877-696-6775Ask HHS to reconsider its recommendation and release the analysis behind it.
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FDA · Acting Commissioner Kyle Diamantas
1-888-INFO-FDAAsk the FDA to make its evidence public and to oppose scheduling kratom or any of its alkaloids.
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White House · President Donald J. Trump
whitehouse.gov/contact (opens in a new tab)Ask the President to direct his administration not to impose emergency scheduling, and to require public input.
Call Congress for oversight
Your senators and representative
Call the Capitol switchboard, (202) 224-3121, and ask for your senators' and your representative's offices by name. Find yours here.
Committee oversight
Ask the ranking members of the committees that oversee the DEA and the FDA, Senators Dick Durbin (Judiciary) and Bernie Sanders (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions), and Representatives Jamie Raskin (Judiciary) and Frank Pallone (Energy and Commerce), to press the agencies for answers and hold oversight hearings. The new Congress, with Democratic majorities in both chambers, takes office on 3 January 2027.
What to say
“I'm a constituent from [city, state]. I oppose the DEA issuing an emergency Schedule I order for 7-OH and mitragynine pseudoindoxyl. Please contact the agencies, ask them to release the evidence and allow meaningful public input, and oppose scheduling kratom or any of its alkaloids.”
Say it in your own words. Ask the office to record your position and tell you what it will do.
If they ask why
- 7-OH has been sold openly for years, and many adults now take it every day. Taking it away overnight, with no taper and no treatment plan, sends them into withdrawal, and some will turn to street opioids.
- Many people use it to manage chronic pain, some after being cut off from prescription pain medication. Schedule I leaves them with nothing legal.
- Ask for regulation instead: independent lab testing, honest labels, and sales only to adults 21 and over.
Check the record: the DEA's notice (14 October) · what it does, clause by clause · the Justice Department's announcement · the FDA's 7-OH recommendation · the DEA's contact page
Kratom alkaloid policy · every state
You already know
You already know
enough to start.
Haven Access is a grassroots organization founded by kratom alkaloid users, to help regular people find and have a political voice.
Find your reps. Say two sentences. Hang up. That's advocacy.
Why now
Bans move quietly and fast
Most decisions about kratom and its alkaloids get made in state legislatures, in committee, in sessions that last weeks — usually without anyone in the room who actually uses them. And a bill titled "consumer protection" can carry a potency cap, or a definition, that removes the products people rely on.
We are not asking for kratom or its alkaloids to go unregulated. We wrote the regulations we want — 21-and-up, independent lab testing, honest labels, a dependence warning on the package. What we will not accept is a cap, or a ban dressed up as a rule.
Start anywhere
Four things, in order
Nothing here needs a policy degree or a title — just the willingness to say what access to these products means to you, out loud, to someone who votes on it.
Step 2
Make the call
Ninety seconds, with a script. Voicemail counts — offices tally every message.
Step 3
Put it in writing
Two paragraphs, your name, your street. The same thing, on the record.
Step 4
Show up and speak
Committee hearings have a public comment slot. Two minutes is yours by right.
The part nobody says out loud
Being nervous is not a disqualification
You do not need a policy degree, a title, or a perfect sentence. Staffers write down what you say and how many people said it. That number is the whole point.
You do not have to explain yourself either. "I use this, and this bill would take it away" is a complete argument.
And you do not have to do it on your own. Most of us started by watching someone else do it first.