Not exactly true. While Kratom does effect similar receptors, it is not nearly strong enough to keep away opiate withdrawals. It might slightly help, but I think an addict would hardly know the difference, unless they have a very minor addiction and very mild withdrawl.
What works the best is LARGE quantities of Imodium. Imodium is an opiate, albeit a very weak one that doesn’t easily cross the blood brain barrier. There are ways to potentiate it I believe
It indeed can and does, I know from experience.
I was on strong opiates, then Methadone, then Suboxone. Only later did friends tell me they were using it and that it would work. Wish I had known.
If you take enough Kratom it will indeed calm the withdrawals.
I’m speaking from experience here too bud. I’ve been taking Kratom every day for three years for pain from a motorcycle accident. And I was once a heroin addict. Kratom hardly does anything for withdrawal. And if you took it in large enough doses to try to make a difference it would make you sick.
Since I didn’t want to go back to using opiates, I started using Kratom after the accident, and it works so well on pain that allows me to continue my work as a carpenter without prescription pain meds. But I’ve tried it many times trying to get off heroin and it might help a little bit, but its benefit is negligible when you are in full-on withdraw
Well, glad you kicked the heroin, you should be proud of that.
I disagree. Dunno why we've had a different experience but whatever.
Agreed. Clean from junk for, shit, 5-6 years now. Kratom keeps me out of pain enough to not relapse, but it did not do shit for withdrawals. Took enough it made me puke trying.
Old fashioned locked-myself-in-a-room for 3 days was what did it. Wouldn't recommend, can kill you doing it that way I found out later.
Stay strong, fren.
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