Kratom Abstinence
Interviewing people in recovery from kratom abuse or addiction, or experts in the field.
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Wednesday Jan 22, 2025
Wednesday Jan 22, 2025
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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Sunday Jan 19, 2025
Sunday Jan 19, 2025
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.
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Withdrawal supplement recommended by Mitch.
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Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Decima talks with Libby and Jacob to catchup on last six months and to discuss additional resources and tools for quitting.
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Sunday Jan 12, 2025
Sunday Jan 12, 2025
Libby and Jacob talk about 7ohm and mitragynine. Melanie was opioid-naive when she walked into a vape shop and sold 7ohm pills. She was blindsided and wrecked by FULL BLOWN opioid withdrawals that many, many more people are seeking professional treatment for because of their ridiculous intensity.
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Sunday Jan 05, 2025
Sunday Jan 05, 2025
HEADS UP: This week the interview is someone who stopped an extreme kratom-kava drink habit but is continuing to use kratom as a harm reduction strategy. While the podcast, based on our expertise, believes 100% abstinence from kratom is necessary for most past problematic kratom users, we feel sharing Joey L.'s story turning his life around after getting up to like 17 tonic shots a day, is worth telling.
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Sunday Dec 29, 2024
Sunday Dec 29, 2024
Happy New Year! Just a quitting interview this week. David M. escalated into an expensive kava-kratom product habit. His family surprised him with an "intervention". After a short-term medical detox, he is now almost a month kratom free!
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Sunday Dec 22, 2024
Sunday Dec 22, 2024
Please email or DM us on social media about any ideas you have for opening topics? An attorney, Rachel used kratom at first as it helped her productivity. While an active leader in a 12 step recovery program, she found herself addicted to kratom and realized she was not longer really "sober".
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Sunday Dec 15, 2024
Sunday Dec 15, 2024
Libby and Jacob talk about the positives of quitting. Christina follows a week after her wife was on the pod. She talks with Libby about their joint journey in quitting, including a plunge in great despair with a turnaround to where life is now worth living.
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Sunday Dec 08, 2024
Sunday Dec 08, 2024
Kelly worked in the kava industry for years and cold turkey quit this summer alongside her partner Christina and three cats! They now give back and host the Tuesday night meetings at 8pm Eastern. Check out those recovery support meetings now available every day at 8pm (as well as three days a week at Noon!)
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Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Jacob discusses gratitude and holiday coping tips. After five years of nonproblematic kratom use, Jake B. talks about quitting kratom multiple times in the last year and as his only addiction with no prior history of abusing other substances.
SHOW NOTE: "Kratom in the Headlines" and "Resource of the Week" segments are on a semi-permanent hiatus.
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