SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — It was just a free sample from a gas station drive-thru in Ogden, but for Dustin Hawkins, it set off a relapse he never saw coming.
“I crack it like an idiot and just drink it,” said Hawkins, who had been sober from opiates for seven years before trying kratom, a controversial herbal substance now widely sold in gas stations across Utah.
“About a half hour later, I just felt like I took two Percocet 10s,” he said…