Disclaimer: Kratom has risks and benefits. One must personally analyze if you are using substances far more dangerous and can use kratom to end use of those substances then move on to safer substances or being substance use free.
How to use Kratom for pain relief and withdrawing from alcohol, opioids, and possibly other depressants:
1. Find a legal and natural product. Get whole leaves if you can, and use it the way Thailand natives have used it for centuries. My personal trial was with Experience Botanicals Maeng Da Kratom. 7 pills contain 4.55 grams.
Users have warned against going above this dosage in one day and against using concentrated extracts. So avoid anything that says something like nX extract. The instructions say no more than 7 pills a day and no more than a month consistent use without a break. This seems like good advice and though it is not very expensive, spending more than say a hundred bucks a month on it seems like an expensive drug problem, so do moderate oneself. However, for serious pain issues, the more natural the product, the more you can take. For example, naturally chewing all the leaves one can tolerate appears to cause few problems in natives but intake is naturally regulated by ones ability to chew leaves so it's not concentrated and you can more easily tell when you have had enough than with pills or extracts. Teas are popular but one must be sure not to make too concentrated a tea.
2. Learn about the benefits and risks from the accounts of users and centuries of kratom use in it's native Thailand.
Some user accounts:
http://www.reddit.com/r/kratom/comments/2p6cpt/experience_botanicals/https://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Kratom.shtml
"Kratom has seen therapeutic use in Thai ethnomedicine as an antidiarrhoeal, as a treatment for opioid dependence, and rarely to increase the duration of coitus.[23][24][25]
Kratom and its derivatives have been used as substitutes for opium as well as for the management of opium withdrawal. " -Wikipedia
3. Come up with a drug withdrawal or pain management plan, preferrably with your doctor's help and monitoring.
If you are using opioids, benzodiazepines, or alcohol for management of pain and anxiety, you are possibly using something far more dangerous than kratom and using kratom may lower your risk of suffering health problems.
If you are using opioids, benzodiazepines, or alcohol for management of pain and anxiety, you are possibly using something far more dangerous than kratom and using kratom may lower your risk of suffering health problems.
Your plan should preferably include slowly decreasing the use of dangerous drugs like Oxycontin and alcohol while slowly introducing kratom to stop withdrawals and produce a state of low pain and low anxiety. I have heard local reports of heavy opiate abusers using kratom to prevent opioid withdrawal successfully and also there are reports from Thailand that kratom has long been used to withdraw from opium.
My Personal Observations About Kratom:
I find it to be prosocial, or rather pro-bonding but I've used it only a short period of time. It makes me a lot nicer. I can hangout with children and women more like a family guy rather than being competition focused.
It appears to act on opioid receptors very differently than traditional opiates and there are anecdotal reports of people quitting heavy kratom use cold turkey suffering no more than runny nose. In any case, it appears safer than using alcohol or opiates daily.
Kratom supposedly does not cause respiratory depression; however, if one makes 15x extracts or more, you'd get some bad side effects I'm sure. People who chew natural leaves apppear to be able to chew as many as they want without significant problems.
Kratom's opioid effects are not opium based obviously and it shows some significant differences. There is not good research and it may not be forthcoming since a powerful pain med without respiratory depression would upset the pain killer addiction/murder scam market.
"In Thailand, kratom was first scheduled for control in 1943 under the Kratom Act. At the time, the government was levying taxes from users and shops involved in the opium trade. Because of the increasing opium costs, many users were switching to kratom to manage their withdrawal symptoms. However, the launch of the Greater East Asia War in 1942 and declining revenues from the opium trade pushed the Thai government into action to curb and suppress competition in the opium market by making kratom illegal."
[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitragyna_speciosa#Prohibition
Thailand, where it grows, openly admitted it was banned so as not to interfere with opium tax profits.
Summary:
Kratom's risk/benefit analysis is good for those who are using dangerous medications like opioids and benzodiazepines. Do your research and consult with a doctor if you find that you could use this plant to reduce or eliminate dangerous medications, pain, and anxiety.
Thanks for reading.
Tell me your secret cheats. email me at knowflow1@gmail.com or comment below.
Daryl F. Seldon, MS, psychotherapist
[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitragyna_speciosa#Prohibition
Thailand, where it grows, openly admitted it was banned so as not to interfere with opium tax profits.
Summary:
Kratom's risk/benefit analysis is good for those who are using dangerous medications like opioids and benzodiazepines. Do your research and consult with a doctor if you find that you could use this plant to reduce or eliminate dangerous medications, pain, and anxiety.
Thanks for reading.
Tell me your secret cheats. email me at knowflow1@gmail.com or comment below.
Daryl F. Seldon, MS, psychotherapist
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