At least 75,000 people reportedly testified to kratom’s medicinal value, hoping to sway the WHO’s drug dependence committee conducting a “pre-review” of kratom as a drug of potential abuse. Food and Drug Administration asked the World Health Organization to assess kratom, and the kratom movement responded again. “It’s never really killed anyone,” says Chris Bell, whose 2018 documentary “A Leaf of Faith” evangelized use of kratom for pain management and chronicled the uprising to prevent its prohibition. Nothing like that had ever happened before. Thousands of kratom users and sellers flooded the government with comments supporting kratom, and 62 members of Congress, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Orrin Hatch, signed a letter advising the DEA to stand down. Drug Enforcement Administration announced its intention to place kratom on Schedule 1 - making it as illegal as heroin - in 2016. The industry insists kratom is neither deadly nor especially addictive, and that any claims to the contrary are part of a conspiracy between the overzealous federal government and law enforcement (and maybe Big Pharma) to disparage and suppress a natural and potential miracle cure that offers relaxation, pain relief, athletic performance enhancement, a path away from opiates and, according to some vendors, even a cure for Covid-19. Like most kratom addicts, James thought it was safe. “It looked like he was wearing a mud mask.” “His face was caked in vomit,” she told me. He’d been dead for hours his body was cold. My sister found James in his bed when she went in to feed the cats. He had been hospitalized twice before after suffering seizures from taking the drug, which is illegal to import to the U.S.
James started using kratom in 2019 to quit drinking - and it worked - but he was soon addicted, gobbling down heaps of the bitter, pulverized leaf to enjoy what some users describe as a safe, legal high. 5, 2021, when my sister called to say her firstborn son James had died from an overdose. (CN) - I first heard of kratom on the morning of Feb.
CAFFEINE OVERDOSE SYMPTOMS REDDIT SERIES
This is the first of a four-part series examining kratom, a plant traditionally used as a medicine but in recent years has gained popularity as a recreational drug.
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