Went to the pharmacy to pick up my meds yesterday, and they didn’t have my anti-psychotic. This is my first major hurdle since being out of rehab, since drinking was the only way I coped with being without my anti-psychotic. What sucks is that this happened on memorial day weekend so I can’t get this solved until Tuesday. Wish me luck y’all, it’s gonna be a shitty weekend :/
But no matter how bad it gets, I’m not gonna drink about it
I haven’t done any research but I can anecdotally report the same. I quit in October using kratom. I was also in active opioid addiction for like 10 years (sober since 2017), so I had to be really careful. But something about kratom makes it manageable for me. I’ll take it a few times a month just to tweak the ol brain chemistry a touch.
it’s like something like a mu opioid agonist or whatever, google that shit for nerd accuracy, but iirc it acts more like a stimulant at lower doses and more like an opiate at higher doses, while also varying between strains kinda like weed because there’s different ratios of psychoactive alkaloids (iirc the main one being mitragynine or something like that)
so anyway, that’s why it’s good for weaning off opiates, it helps trigger some of the same receptors so you don’t get full ass withdrawal from no opiates
Oh it’s definitely a very strong mu agonist. Also, my favorite thing about oxycodone was it, for me, was an upper and then a downer. So l love that kratom has that quality, and even grants you better control over it. I can take 3-4 grams and go to work with a nice mood boost and some extra energy. Or I can take 10 or so for relaxing times.
It’s been quite successful in treating opioid addiction as well. They were just about to ban it in my very conservative state, but the American Kratom Association gave a convincing presentation to our legislature and they changed some minds
I could certainly see it being useful there. And I remember hearing about it back in ‘my day’ but never tried it. I was just worried about it scratching the itch too well and making me want to relapse. And it does give some of the same feelings as opioids. But it doesn’t hook me the same way. I’ll buy a bag of capsules and forget I have them sometimes, which is just not something I’ve ever done with anything.