'Gas-station heroin' kratom, targeted in crackdowns by states and cities
'Gas-station heroin' kratom, targeted in crackdowns by states and cities
Kratom, known for its opioid- and stimulant-like effects, is sold widely and legally. But it can be fatal in very high doses.
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why would they go after kratom when tianeptine is the problem?
Because kratom is an easy target. Few people have heard of it so it's easy to force their initial reaction. It threatens both the pain drug and marijuana lobbies.
I sorta wonder about these overdoses in the article to. My wife and I tried it since marijuana legalization is done in a way that makes it expensive and we wanted to see if it would help at all from avoiding some other drugs. Little to no effect and it was annoying to drink. I feel like someone whould have to guzzle quite a bit or combine it with other stuff that would more likely be the culprit over kratom.
Yeah definitely. I have a friend who has a severe abdominal pain issue that no one has been able to figure out for almost a decade now, severe enough and without any sort of warning that he is on disability and cannot work. Sometimes so bad he has to be hospitalized. Most doctors he's seen have essentially just been wanting to throw opiates at it, just treating the symptoms with highly addictive drugs.
Most of the time however, kratom has been able to treat the daily symptoms. When that can't, marijuana has been able to. He rarely has an issue requiring a hospital visit now despite still no idea what the root cause is.
I do think there needs to be some sort of regulation on things like additives along with the kratom. I feel like a lot of those deaths are more likely a situation similar to fentanyl being secretly added to street drugs to boost the effect, and that not being disclosed to the user or potentially even known by the dealer which causes people to overdose using a dose that otherwise would have been "safe".
We don't want to force more things down the same path as truly medically relevant drugs like marijuana thanks to political bullshit like the failed War on Drugs.
thats what the tianeptine is. Its functions just like an opiate.