Kratom Sobriety

By Lily, Libby, Jacob, Nolan, and Charlie

Leaving the leaf for the problematic kratom user. Helping people abstain from kratom.... more

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February 16, 2025 E120 Cassidy
Make a plan to quit. Cassidy was 16 when she first tried kratom, buying from a gas station near her home. Her use escalated to street drugs and a stint in rehab, and her recovery includes addressing mental health issues and getting ready to go to college.

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February 12, 2025 E119 Matthew's Mom Sue
A study co-authored by Dr. Christopher McCurdy concludes "...the public needs to be warned about this public health problem and heed the Food and Drug Administration’s warning on kratom being a drug of concern." Link study: https://tinyurl.com/bdrewda6

The academic article provides evidence that kratom alone can cause death, though such cases are relatively rare compared to polysubstance kratom fatalities. It is possible that these numbers could represent an undercount as kratom is not universally tested for in all fatalities. It is possible that some but definitely not all of these cases may represent deaths where other substances, adulterated kratom, or health conditions may not have been detected.

Key findings supporting kratom causing death:

1) Sole Substance Deaths Analyzed:
* Among 551 mitragynine-positive cases, 36 (6.5%) had no other substances present at the time of death.
* In these cases, mitragynine was determined to be the sole cause of death through autopsy and toxicology.

2) Other Research Cited:
* Previous studies, such as Olsen et al. (2019), documented a few cases where mitragynine was the only substance detected in fatal intoxications.
* Additional case reports (e.g., Behonick et al. 2022) confirmed fatalities where kratom alone led to outcomes like cardiac arrest, seizures, or respiratory failure.

Journal of Addiction Medicine https://journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmedicine/abstract/9900/the_associations_of_kratom__mitragynine_,_opioids,.408.aspx

Links from this week's guests:

Kratom Danger Awareness: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1DU1RfAvdd/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Documentary A Beautiful Life Stolen: https://abeautifullifestolen.com/documentary-1
Documentary Tampa Bay Times, Deadly Dose: https://youtu.be/ys01SU2BpWE
Sue's TikTok @krat0mdangers: https://www.tiktok.com/@krat0mdangers?_t=ZT-8ta2H2Dngwo&_r=1
Press conference of Sue with her lawyers: https://youtu.be/mUHECdNFIkc
Testimony in Tinley Park, Kratom banned: https://www.youtube.com/live/fJx1JzBRfJw?si=sj486Q982UvvvxnY

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February 09, 2025 E118 Brandon
Imagining kratom Superbowl commercials. Focusing on the impact on his family and remembering an earlier time in his life when he abused opioids, in Nolan's first pod interview, Brandon found that a little tonic he bought at the gas station (and endorsed by some collegiate sports teams) tuned into a heavy addiction he found hard to quit.
Nolan's quitting kratom YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Nolanwrites

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February 05, 2025 E117 Dr. Casey Grover, Board Certified in Addiction Medicine
Casey Grover, MD FACEP FASAM
https://www.addictionmedicinemadeeasy.com/about-5
Post-acute Withdrawal Syndrome
DOI: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36731102/
The Science on Kratom: Kratom Journal Club (podcast episode) https://tinyurl.com/59bmbetc

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February 02, 2025 E116 Alec
Tips for tapering. Alec had to go to residential treatment to overcome his kratom addiction. Bouncing back after a recent relapse, he is now off kratom and buckling in for long term journey.

1) Kratom Tapering Tool For Quitting - Google Sheets
https://tinyurl.com/mr29nrfz

2) How to Quit Kratom [Tapering, Supplements, & Cold Turkey] - Tripsitter
https://tripsitter.com/kratom/how-to-quit/

3) Tapering | Quitting Kratom Support
https://kratomquitters.com/tapering

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January 29, 2025 E115 Desiree
Despite working as a substance abuse counselor, Desiree shares about her experience from initial kratom use to severe dependency and the physical and mental toll it took on her, eventually leading to a determined effort to seek help and achieve freedom from the kava-kratom tonics with support from her sister.
NOTE: At the podcast, we are experimenting with posting two interviews a week, one on Wednesdays and continuing with our traditional episodes on Sundays. We have a list of 20 people who want to be guests, so we want to accommodate the interest of people to appear on the show.

Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It by Kamal Ravikant, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/love-yourself-like-your-life-depends-on-it-kamal-ravikant/1112108294
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January 26, 2025 E114 Eric M.
Libby and Jacob discuss quitting mindset hacks. Eric is a 50-something dad who used kratom capsules for eight years before he realized it was not the life enhancer he had convinced himself it was. With no previous history of addiction, Eric discusses tapering tips and other advice from his nine months off kratom.

Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It by Kamal Ravikant, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble
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54min
January 22, 2025 E113 Matthew M.
Dear Listeners,
By far, the most painful thing about hosting this podcast and in the quitting kratom community writ large, is the conflict about the use of Suboxone or buprenorphine to treat kratom addiction. Please try to see both sides, now.
On one hand, often victims of the opioid pill crisis of the 2000s and many moving on to heroin or street drugs, we have a bunch of listeners who came to kratom to get off Suboxone. These folks often have quit both drugs and Suboxone multiple times. Many have had honeymoon periods with Suboxone where it helped for some block of time but eventually stopped being a positive experience. Almost all of them had horrendous trouble with stopping the subs with hard and difficult withdrawals from subs. Some first time kratom quitters with bad Suboxone experiences as well. All these folks feel very strongly they have an obligation to warn others about this, as they wish they had been warned.
On the other hand, we have listeners who have a horrible kratom addiction, often to extract products. These typically result in very expensive habits spending $100 to $200 per day. Some of these folks have been able to quit multiple times but end up relapsing back on kratom. A few of them end up feeling suicidal from being stuck in this cycle. Out of desperation, they turn to seeing an addiction doctor and are prescribed buprenorphine. Many of these folks feel strongly that bupe saved their lives, but they feel judged not by the general public but by their own peers in the recovery community. They worry many others are being scared from trying Suboxone and are needlessly suffering stuck in addiction because of stigmatization of a valid treatment pathway.
Please try to see both sides, now.
Sincerely, Charlie

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26min
January 19, 2025 E112 Mitch
Jacob and Libby talk about not trying to overdue your early days of quitting with too many goals and setting yourself up for failure. A nurse with no previous addiction history, Mitch became dependent on the kava-kratom tonics. He discusses how he quit and explores a range of kratom related medical topics as well as bouncing back after a relapse where he told himself he would just have "one".

RESOURCE OF THE WEEK
Stasis - Your Brain, Balanced.
https://takestasis.com/
Withdrawal supplement recommended by Mitch.

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January 15, 2025 E111 www.kratomquitters.com
Decima talks with Libby and Jacob to catchup on last six months and to discuss additional resources and tools for quitting.
Support for Kratom Addiction Recovery Meetings and Resources | Quitting Kratom Support
https://kratomquitters.com/

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