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My guest is Drew Turner. Drew is a kratom activist and consumer who appeared in the documentary A Leaf of Faith. He is a Navy veteran, and As a result of his service, Drew suffers from PTSD, Meige syndrome, and has recently completed chemotherapy. He drinks kratom tea as a part of his wellness routine. …

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My guest is Melody Woolf from Kalamazoo Michigan. Melody suffered from a number of conditions that gave her excruciating chronic pain including fibromyalgia and spinal stenosis. She was mostly home-bound and had to use a wheelchair, walker, and opiates to get her through the day. She discovered kratom six years ago and now walks, bikes, and makes up for time with her children lost to her prior condition. She’s also an awesome kratom activist and can be found on twitter @MelodyHope5. This is her kratom story.

Music: Risey, “Memories of Thailand”

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My guest is Melody Woolf from Kalamazoo Michigan. Melody suffered from a number of conditions that gave her excruciating chronic pain including fibromyalgia and spinal stenosis. She was mostly home-bound and had to use a wheelchair, walker, and opiates to get her through the day. She discovered kratom six years ago and now walks, bikes, …

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My guest is Kendell Clark from Great Saline, Texas. Kendell was diagnosed with scoliosis after a fall he had. He was prescribed Tramadol for the chronic pain, and became addicted to it. Kendell is one of the many thousands of people for whom kratom helped break an opiate addiction. 

Kendell left some comments on KratomScience.com and sent me an email expressing his desire to tell his kratom story. If you’d like to be a guest, send me an email to [email protected] or a Twitter message to @kratomscience

Music: Risey, “Memories of Thailand”

Written and produced by Brian Gallagher

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My guest is Kendell Clark from Great Saline, Texas. Kendell was diagnosed with scoliosis after a fall he had. He was prescribed Tramadol for the chronic pain, and became addicted to it. Kendell is one of the many thousands of people for whom kratom helped break an opiate addiction.  Kendell left some comments on KratomScience.com …

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My guest for Episode 10 is my mum, Bernice Gallagher. In 1998 Bernice was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and was given one to five years to live. Along with chemotherapy and radiation, she drank an herbal tea called Essiac. Bernice believes this tea helped her to fight the cancer, and stay in full remission for two decades.

We talk about cancer in the family, and the history of Essiac which has some parallels to the history of kratom in the way it was treated by the medical establishment.

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Music: Risey, “Memories of Thailand”

Reference links:

“Who Was Rene Caisse?” https://www.essiacinfo.org/caisse.html

“In the Words of Rene Caisse” https://www.essiacinfo.org/caisse_pop_5.htm

“The Story of Rene Caisse and Essiac Part 1” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X65-XfOWssA

“The Story of Rene Caisse and Essiac part 2” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXJ7T1fd9SA

My guest for Episode 10 is my mum, Bernice Gallagher. In 1998 Bernice was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and was given one to five years to live. Along with chemotherapy and radiation, she drank an herbal tea called Essiac. Bernice believes this tea helped her to fight the cancer, and stay in full …

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This week: Kratom banned in France, Mississippi State Senator Chuck Younger announces he’ll introduce a bill to ban kratom in his state, and we examine kratom as covered in media over the past week. 

Produced by Brian Gallagher for https://www.kratomscience.com/

Reference links:

Kratom Science Europe post https://www.kratomscience.eu/kratom-in-france/

ANSM press release https://ansm.sante.fr/S-informer/Points-d-information-Points-d-information/Inscription-du-kratom-sur-la-liste-des-psychotropes-Point-d-Information#_ftn1

Article about France’s kratom ban in LeMonde https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2020/01/09/le-kratom-souvent-utilise-comme-substitut-a-certains-opioides-est-desormais-interdit-en-france_6025324_3224.html

ANSM tweet and replies from French citizens https://twitter.com/ansm/status/1214571220190072834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1214571220190072834&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.20minutes.fr%2Fsante%2F2690015-20200108-psychotropes-achat-detention-kratom-desormais-interdits-france

r/kratom post about France https://www.reddit.com/r/kratom/comments/elfqsy/kratom_is_now_banned_from_france/

Fox17 story about kratom https://fox17.com/news/addicted/some-former-opioids-users-swear-by-natural-drug-kratom-as-alternative-for-pain-treatment

KQED (NPR) story about kratom https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/13/789145948/the-kratom-debate-helpful-herb-or-dangerous-drug?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

New England Journal of Medicine article on “acute mitragynine intoxication” deaths turning out to be multiple drug-related https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1811055

This week: Kratom banned in France, Mississippi State Senator Chuck Younger announces he’ll introduce a bill to ban kratom in his state, and we examine kratom as covered in media over the past week.  Produced by Brian Gallagher for https://www.kratomscience.com/ Reference links: Kratom Science Europe post https://www.kratomscience.eu/kratom-in-france/ ANSM press release https://ansm.sante.fr/S-informer/Points-d-information-Points-d-information/Inscription-du-kratom-sur-la-liste-des-psychotropes-Point-d-Information#_ftn1 Article about France’s kratom …

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Kratom consumers are being threatened in Mississippi. A task force made up of law enforcement officers is lobbying county and town councils in an effort to ban kratom. They are called the Lowndes County Crime and Addiction Task Force. Their efforts have resulted in bans in dozens of towns and counties, mostly in Northeast Mississippi. Representatives tied to big pharma are trying to ban kratom statewide.

Our guest this week wishes to remain anonymous. She fears that by exercising her First Amendment rights, she’ll face some form of backlash from the powers that be.

Music: Risey “Memories of Thailand”

Lowndes County Crime and Addiction Task Force presidentation at the Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors meeting, July 2019: https://youtu.be/ojqVlqirdMo

“State Legislatures and ALEC: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)” “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIMgfBZrrZ8&t=829s

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