Big Pot Meets Big Labor
This might be a good opportunity for a closer look at exactly how wealthy and established the industry has become
Numbers Game
“Significantly lesser quantities of drugs are smuggled directly into the United States by traffickers using maritime conveyances than by traffickers using overland routes.”
This is one of several features that have appeared of late, all concerning the battle over the fast-growing market for a popular supplement known as kratom. From a recent issue of Wired magazine:
The Kratom Civil War Is Heating Up, and MAHA Has Picked a Side
At war are:
Proponents of “original“ kratom, used by millions as a stimulant (in low doses) and an opioid-like sedative (higher-dose), and sold over-the-counter in mini-marts and health food stores as a “natural” supplement. Known colloquially as “Gas Station Heroin”. Reports of addiction are common. Versus:
Advocates for 7-OH, a primary ingredient of kratom that has been isolated and offered for sale to users who prefer something stronger than the original. It’s considered both more addictive and riskier to use than its parent, yet has not been closely regulated.
The Wired article takes pains to note that “Consumers of 7-OH have spoken of its excruciating withdrawal symptoms, and there have been...
The Kratom Civil War Is Heating Up, and MAHA Has Picked a Side
At war are:
Proponents of “original“ kratom, used by millions as a stimulant (in low doses) and an opioid-like sedative (higher-dose), and sold over-the-counter in mini-marts and health food stores as a “natural” supplement. Known colloquially as “Gas Station Heroin”. Reports of addiction are common. Versus:
Advocates for 7-OH, a primary ingredient of kratom that has been isolated and offered for sale to users who prefer something stronger than the original. It’s considered both more addictive and riskier to use than its parent, yet has not been closely regulated.
The Wired article takes pains to note that “Consumers of 7-OH have spoken of its excruciating withdrawal symptoms, and there have been...
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Big Pot Meets Big Labor
This might be a good opportunity for a closer look at exactly how wealthy and established the industry has become
New Money or Not?
It turns out that the funds in question had previously been delayed, for months... now to be released late.
This isn’t an emergency?
…a drug that kills nearly 500 Americans every day, and causes more deaths in a typical year than every infectious disease combined. It is manufactured abroad and domestically, then sold by powerful multinational organizations with a vast network of distributors
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Split Over Kratom
...both the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security have “strong ties to a kratom lobbyist (and convicted criminal) behind a notorious kratom drinks company.”
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Like addicts deprived of their drug of choice, the compulsive exerciser may report a deep sense of loss, accompanied by symptoms such as sleeplessness, irritability, depression, anxiety.
Split Over Kratom
...both the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security have “strong ties to a kratom lobbyist (and convicted criminal) behind a notorious kratom drinks company.”
Life in a Hot Spot
Make it a continuing effort, using strategies based in evidence, and harnessing the power of human interaction-- instead of relying on a burst of anti-drug education, however intense.
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One young man explained that he avoided speaker meetings because the “drunkalogues” he heard triggered in him an awful craving for a drink.
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It’s vulnerable to bias, both on the part of the patient and the practitioner.
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Rage-baited
From a counseling standpoint, it’s a time when we ought to be advising patients to restrict their social media activity, at the very least to selected forums and sites that support recovery goals
Rage-baited
From a counseling standpoint, it’s a time when we ought to be advising patients to restrict their social media activity, at the very least to selected forums and sites that support recovery goals
Parenting Under The Influence
Children raised in such families are more likely to be exposed to violence, to initiate their own substance use at an earlier age, and to have mental health problems in childhood.
Is This Recovery?
...there are other folks out there like these— pretending to sobriety yet still secretly using, and hoping to avoid the sort of trouble that haunted them in the past.
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A Novel Approach
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
A Novel Approach
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
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It certainly makes sense that if you suffer from a major mental illness, you should stay away from pot.
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