@misteaz79@SpeakPain2Power@JanPickleberry@TheKratomAssn I do and it's a bunch of misinformation you foolishly believe, demonizing the primary metabolite responsible for all of the positive effects of kratom. MIT by itself can be very unpleasant causing wobbles, jitters, anxiety. Until it converts to 7oh that you will experience relief
I have never seen or heard anyone advocating for a 'tapering' of alcohol. Alcohol kills ~174,000/yr in US & more than illicit fentanyl. For other drugs there is an obsession with 'tapering' esp rx opioid pain meds, which kill only ~25,000/yr (and no one when taken as directed).
Read one label today.
If the ingredient list looks like a chemistry experiment, put it back.
Whole foods rarely need a paragraph to explain what's inside.
@misteaz79@DavidESmitty I would not be able to tolerate my relentless pain, without kratom, 7oh, and or pain pills. You've been propagandized just as easily as the KDA people.
Before you make up your mind about someone you’ve never been, read this.
I am a member of the chronic pain community, and this is my message to you.
If you’ve lost someone you love to addiction or an overdose, I am truly sorry.
My heart breaks for your loss.
No family should ever have to endure that kind of pain.
This isn’t an abstract issue to me.
I lost one of my cousins to an overdose.
My family has lived through that grief, and I know the hole it leaves behind.
I don’t believe compassion has sides.
Many of us in the chronic pain community grieve with you.
We mourn every life lost to addiction, every family forever changed, and every empty seat at the dinner table.
But there is another side of this story, one that millions of Americans are forced to live every single day.
If your understanding of prescription opioids has been shaped primarily by headlines, documentaries like Dopesick and Painkiller, or only one side of the conversation…
I have one request.
Before you decide what should be taken away from people like me, close your eyes and imagine living in our bodies.
Not a sore back.
Not the flu.
Relentless, intractable pain that never clocks out.
Pain that follows you into every morning, every sleepless night, and every moment in between.
You can multiply your opinions by infinity and take them to the depths of forever…
If you’ve never lived this life, you’ll never truly comprehend what it costs to survive inside a body that has become your prison.
Most of us didn’t ask for opioids.
We asked for a chance to live with dignity.
For many of us, opioids were simply the treatment that gave us part of that life back.
There is room to grieve those lost to addiction.
There is room to prevent misuse.
There is room to hold bad actors accountable.
And there must also be room to care for patients living with legitimate, severe, intractable pain.
We’re not asking you to carry our pain.
We’re simply asking you to stop making it heavier.
People will rally around the cancer patient.
They’ll rally around the wounded warrior.
They’ll rally around the victim of a horrific accident.
But give someone a chronic illness that lasts for years, and watch how fast the sympathy expires.
Suddenly the questions start.
“Are they really sick?”
“Do they really need that medication?”
“Why aren’t they working?”
“Why aren’t they better yet?”
As if suffering comes with an expiration date.
As if the body is obligated to heal on a timeline that makes other people comfortable.
The truth is, many people don’t have a problem with sick people.
They have a problem with sick people who stay sick.
They’re fine with a battle.
What they’re not fine with is a war.
Because a war forces them to confront something they desperately don’t want to believe:
Sometimes people don’t recover.
Sometimes medicine doesn’t have a cure.
Sometimes pain doesn’t go away.
And sometimes the strongest person in the room is the one who gets up every morning and fights a battle they never volunteered for and may never win.
The public loves inspirational stories.
They just don’t like the ones that don’t have a happy ending.
And since some people still need to hear it…
Again, I said what I said.
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In March the Michigan House was able to pass HB 5537 (a blanket ban on kratom) based on Patti Wheeler's story about kratom that we now know was completely based on lies about the death of her son Wyatt Wheeler. Read article above!
His death was NOT caused purely by kratom like Patty insists.
It was a multitude of drugs that had a synergistic affect that ultimately caused his demise.
Passing a bill that would deny access to a plant that has helped millions of people across the country since the 1970's by using a mother's grief is extremely Underhanded, Deceptive and Deceitful.
Those who voted for HB 5537 did NOT consider how the lives of hundreds of thousands of Michigan people would be impacted in the worst way.
So I strongly feel that we need to VOTE OUT all of these lawmakers calling for this blanket kratom bill.
@MI_Republicans@michigan_public@MIHouseDems @RepJoeAragona @TullioLiberati@DougWozniak @PaulineWendzel @marktisde @Rigas4Michigan @JamieforHD28 @KarenWhitsett4 @EmilyDievendorf #MIKratom #Kratom #KratomBan
@Fxhedgers People can create 7oh with plain leaf kra tom, you idiot! The recipe HAS been publicly available. The AKA and morons like you is why we're having states doing complete bans. The AKA should have fought against 7oh misinformation instead they created propaganda