Passing this on because it is the best summary of the issues surrounding #Kratom I've seen to date...

"Legal Morphine’— The Rise of Kratom and 7-OH in the US"

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/legal-morphine-rise-kratom-and-7-oh-us-2025a1000cco

Key warning is 👉 avoid purified "7-OH" products. 👈

You CAN get too much of a good thing!

"The most well-studied compounds in kratom are #mitragynine and 7-OH... At low doses, mitragynine’s mixed receptor profile (adrenergic, serotonergic, dopaminergic) yields mild stimulant and mood-boosting effects."

"By contrast, concentrated 7-OH preparations are 30-40 times more potent at opioid receptors and produce rapid-onset analgesia, euphoria, respiratory depression, and classic #Opioid -type #withdrawal. As previously reported by Medscape Medical News, research has shown that 7-OH (formerly known as (7-HMG) has high abuse potential and may also increase the intake of other #opiates."

#OH7 #HMG7 #Addiction

Treating Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy Cuts Risk of Complications by 30% https://www.growingyourbaby.com/treating-opioid-use-disorder-in-pregnancy-cuts-risk-of-complications-by-30/ #opioidusedisorder #pregnancy #healthybabies #opiates

LB: These #nitazenes are even finding its way into the #partydrugs used at #raves and #festivals (where #opiates are generally unpopular) and its leading to fatalities (my friends told me about one case at a prominent UK festival just last year, a young man who would not normally touch opiates was killed)

@br00t4c

@TexasObserver according to The Iron Law Of Prohibition fentanyl itself was created by the #WarOnDrugs. Milton Friedman correctly predicted our current predicament in the pages of Time Magazine like 50 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition

#uspol #CriminalJustice #Law #Drugs #Fentanyl #Heroin #opiates

it's not something I want to do except if I feel in the mood.

#opiates

That being there, I'm planning to post more texts in noth French and English. It might be quite ambitious, but in French, I have the project to write something aiming to be a book as a final product, on my addiction to heroin/opiods and my recovery, wuth maybe bilingual snippets for my english audiance. #writing #writingcommunity #addiction #heroin #opiates

Also, I’ve never had any delay or denial in approval of #opiates from insurures, public or private.

But trying to get safe, non controversial #lidocaine & #menthol for #pain, I’ve had #insurance deny or delay approval most of the time. Other safe options like #massage or #infrared therapy are never offered.

Government & medical institutions are eager to punish, even imprison doctors & patients trying to treat pain, but zero effort has been made to increase use of safe alternative treatments.

Those Dukes of Hazard would be amazed at what is happening in their town today.

#opiates #recovery #Kentucky

Recovery community helping Kentucky town rebound from economic decline and addiction | PBS NewsHour
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/recovery-community-helping-kentucky-town-rebound-from-economic-decline-and-addiction

#Medical #marijuana costs way too much in #Australia.

Why the hell isn’t it on the PBS? I had to go get a specialist permit so go let me be special at a reasonable price. I wanted this so I could avoid #opiates. It costs hundreds for small bottles.

It’s fancy grass extract.

This article from the #RAC is a bit mangled - #amfetamine, #benzodiazepines and #opiates are *not* "everyday" medicines for most people - even low dose #codeine is pharmacy only (the pharmacist should warn you about #driving impairment, and the package itself has a warning), and those prescribed the controlled #drugs should already have had a warning from their GP (plus mistiming meds or sleep deprivation can easily lead to being stopped by the Police when driving)

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/these-everyday-medicines-could-get-you-fined-or-banned-from-driving/

I take kratom daily for my chronic pain. Just for fun, my nurse practitioner ordered a full toxicology screen of my urine to see if anything showed up. Mitragynine (of course) and *diphenhydramine*!? Anyone know of (Canadian source) kratom laced with Benadryl? Seems plausible...

#kratom #pharmacology #toxicology #drugs #medicine #health #supplements #opioids #opiates #pain #ChronicPain

#Boosts please

How many days meant to wait after stopping #opiates before starting #LDN? Have prescribed LDN. It used to be 3 days standard but now? Dosage? I got 1.5mg but can pull apart capsules.
What happens when start LDN?
Your experiences also help. I know many out there been through this.

System has pretty much abandoned me. Don’t ever live in wrong postcode.😔

#mecfs
@mecfs
#ChronicIllness
@chronicpain
#chronicpain
@chronicillness
#longcovid
@longcovid
#neisvoid
@neisvoid

Drugs: https://www.aurianneor.org/drugs/

#anger, #aurianneor, #capitalism, #CrystalMeth , #democracy, #Drugs, #epidemic, #fentanyl, #GiletsJaunes #hate, #heroin, #hospital, #isolation, #methamphetamine, #military, #neoconservatives, #neoliberalism, #opiates, #opioids, #opulence, #police, #power, #publicauthorities, #repression, #republic, #revolt, #rich, #rural, #success, #toothless, #Tramadol, #Vicodin, #violence, #work

#Cannabis was never a gateway drug. It was #alcohol and #tobacco, research has shown.
And, milk (kidding).
Some very good information here...
#opiates
https://www.c-span.org/video/?528093-1/seeing-smoke

“It's a little demon whispering in my ear that I constantly have to fight against."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgw8aq/eight-years-of-lean-addiction
#codeine #lean #addiction #Rap #Santé #Drugs #Opiates #mentalhealth #VICEInternational #VICEBelgium

Allegedly owner of Divino Nino,a place to care for children between 6 weeks to 12 years old in The Bonx,had sublet a room to a guy.Officers of #NYPD and uS DEA have broken down the door and raided the room to discover a little less than one kg of #Fentanyl and a kilo press
Kilo press is used by drug dealers to adulterate #Cocaine with #Opiates into bricks
Overdose of babies would have been due to #Fentanyl inhalation
Earlier Saturday afternoon owner and her cousin were taken into police custody

Around 2013 I started writing to u on my #Twitter account about the #Opioid epidemic in the US.
The US was climbing its second peak in opioid use and associated deaths
Unfortunately #Twitter account of mine was closed after being attacked by usual trolls and drug dealers
Three children have been poisoned by opioids at #Bronx day care facility in #NewYork and a 1-yo has died No one knows how they came into contact with #opiates or they don't want to know. I'm going to explain to u what happened

@NeuroDrugDoc
I have watched Painkillers and Dopesick. For sure the Sacklers are horrible people. But IMHO, it was the enablers that are even more negligent and never held accountable. This includes the physicians that ignored the obvious. Pill mills became rampant.
#Opiates are addictive regardless of how much you try and put a “shiny new coating” on them.
There was greed on many sides.

#JamieLeeCurtis Opens up About Her #Addiction to #Opiates, Says She’d Be “Dead” if #Fentanyl Was “as Easily Available as It Is Today on the Street”
https://decider.com/2023/07/28/jamie-lee-curtis-opens-up-addiction-opiates-would-be-dead-fentanyl/