#kratom addiction

[capitalism-is-parasitism]

Kratom addiction

Around November 2023, Adeoye noticed that she would feel sad if she didn’t drink Feel Free. Physical symptoms followed in February this year. When she woke up, she would have headaches, fatigue or feel sick unless she had a Feel Free. Soon, she was drinking upwards of eight bottles a day. “I couldn’t not have it in my system at any point because I would just start to physically feel ill,” she said.

The active chemical ingredient in kratom is mitragynine, explained Oliver Grundmann, a clinical professor at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Florida, who has co-authored surveys of kratom use in the US. Online, kratom is often referred to as an opioid – mitragynine does interact with opioid receptors, but not in exactly the same way as drugs like heroin or fentanyl. It’s what is called a partial agonist, which means while it binds to opioid receptors, it doesn’t produce the full opioid effect.

Mitragynine activates pathways that lead to reduction of pain, like opioids do. But it doesn’t appear to engage pathways associated with respiratory depression, which in drugs like morphine and fentanyl can lead to adverse effects. “You don’t get the full effect, even once you increase the dose,” Grundmann said.

While the Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about kratom, it isn’t scheduled by the Drug Enforcement Administration, because there’s not enough scientific data on it to do so, said Kirsten Smith, a kratom researcher and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University who has collaborated with Grundmann. However, existing studies show that it does have a risk for physical dependence, and there is little disagreement among experts that it can lead to physical dependence.

[ibogainetreatmentcenters]

Kratom Addiction Detox https://avanteibogaine.com/kratom-addiction-detox/

[prolibytherium]

Had someone at my work be like ‘I found this kind of guava root beverage that they only sell in smoke shops and it’s the first thing that’s ever helped with my pain’ and I’m like ‘. do uou mean kava or’ and she shows me a pic of a kratom seltzer and I’m like Oh Yeah Ok Kratom I Know Of It

[stupidpunk]

Googled kratom to see if I could read about it bc I might buy some from the smoke shop just to try it??? And Google gave me the 'help is available' national suicide and drug abuse hotline????

[rat-basher]

sooo devastating that most ppl have no media literacy and critical thinking skills. im praying for u guys 😟🙏 not me though im the smartest person alive

[pussyluvr2000]

Lowkey tho if the hotel doesn't schedule me this week (seems like they may. They seem desperate) i hope maybe i can get hours at the smoke shop which is also walkable. Mostly because i think working at a smoke shop would be funny For Me. In terms of character. Yknow? Like of course i would work at a smoke shop.

[personaversace]

in 2024 im either getting fixed or i'm killing myself.

[bergamotz]

bleh I wld like my various maladies 2 sort themselves out nd also 4 my brain 2 work right. this part is a catch 22 bcuz it's in part due 2 being addicted 2 kratom which is rlly hard 2 quit in large part bcuz ov how it fucks w my brain. everything feels flatter and more ridgid. the fact I'm not doing anything ever isn't helping w this but doing things w ppl wld also not help but in a different way. also epilepsy meds r not helping w any ov this. except the epilepsy. maybe.

[kratomkittycat]

Relapse Journal Entry (03/21/23)

Last night, I took kratom extract again. It was after 1 in the morning when I had gotten home from work.

The recovery process has been extremely challenging for me emotionally. I have still been miserable, the way I described it in my previous messages, despite AA, Recovery Skills Group, therapy, and lots of coping skills. No matter how long I go without kratom extract, it still has its claws sunken into me and last night I couldn’t get the idea of taking it out of my head.

The only thing that was even really stopping me is that I was told by doctors and other people that if I were to take it while on my suboxone, I would either get very nauseous or it would just not work. But recently, I looked it up and found out it wasn’t true.

I had taken 2.5 mg of suboxone yesterday (1 in the morning, 0.5 shortly after, and 1 in the early evening). This medication is supposed to help with the cravings, however I noticed when I take more than this I get too sleepy to work properly.

This morning, I threw away all of the kratom extract that I still had in my drawers to prevent myself from taking any more. But what I really want to know is what can I do to make this easier for me emotionally, and to help me not crave it so much? I try so hard and put so much effort in, constantly making plans to distract myself and convince myself that I’m happy, but it feels like this has just taken over.

I just think it sucks that no matter how long I go without it I still can’t get it out of my head (how much I want to take it) and it shuts down all logical thinking. And it’s painful to make myself not take it anyway. It’s a really hard thing to have to chose between painfully not taking it or taking it and ending up like I did before.

And I want to be someone who can control themselves with dosing because I really don’t wanna deal with what always happens when I take it. I just don’t really know how to not take it like that. Because when I tried to take tolerance breaks before I just felt really bad. But what the heck, I feel really bad now as it is!! I’ve BEEN feeling really bad. Miserable.

I am in absolute wretched misery that I just can’t describe and I really need to take kratom extract otherwise I just won’t be able to get through today. I don’t know what to do 🥺

[jbfly46]

Natural lab tested kratom contains mu-opioid antagonists that prevent addiction, unless you’re already addicted to a more potent opioid, and even then, it’s a step down in opioid receptor agonization.

[prolibytherium]

I was wrong about kratom not causing hallucinatory-esque cognitive effects I just snapped out of this detailed waking dream-vision-fantasy that I was a guy living in LA being hunted by a sniper named 'Granny Longshot'

[astoriachef]

This article is insane.

[stringofswineteeth]

https://www.protectkratom.org/california

Sharing around, PLEASE do the same. This is extremely important harm reduction.

[donotdestroy]

They take kratom to ease pain or anxiety. Sometimes, death follows.

In most fatal cases, other substances are also implicated