“The FDA is creating, essentially, public hysteria,” Paula Brown, director of the B.C. Institute of Technology’s natural health and food producers research group, said in a telephone interview. “I’m very skeptical that kratom could actually be attributed as a cause of death.” Zachary Walsh, an associate professor in UBC’s department of psychology and co-director of…
Sales reps, May told me, received training in “overcoming objections” from clinicians. If a doctor inquired about addiction, May had a talking point ready. “ ‘The delivery system is believed to reduce the abuse liability of the drug,’ ” he recited to me, with a rueful laugh. “Those were the specific words. I can still…
During alcohol prohibition in the US in the 1920s, the government made an exception for whisky, a more expensive alcoholic drink, which you could buy with a doctor’s prescription. This ensured that those who were poor could be locked up for drinking alcohol, while the elites could legally obtain the drug if they wanted to.…
“It gave me a very good, focused energy,” he said. “So since then, I’ve taken Kratom from time to time in the morning instead of coffee.” Palatnik said he tests every Kratom strain he sells. He said the powder should not be confused with the wave of synthetic drugs that were sold in other stores…
“Now that probably millions of people in the United States are using it, and many of them are reporting that they’re getting off of opiates using kratom, it could create a public health disaster to remove that tool from our arsenal at a time when we have what’s being described as an opioid epidemic,” Marc…
His research did suggest some addictive qualities of kratom, but not so much to prompt the FDA to issue such a dire warning. It is quite the opposite, Hemby notes, saying the plant has a low potential for abuse. Regarding research conducted by Scott Hemby, Head of the Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences at High…
“This is literally the same battle that marijuana had to fight,” she says. “People had to go to jail so that people could go across the street and buy a joint” … She also maintains strict quality control over her kratom supply and actually advocates for thorough consumer-protection rules in Colorado … “I think state…
The drug pushers we have in mind here have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, enough fatalities to decrease overall U.S. life expectancy at birth for the last two years running. Yet no police SWAT teams have pounded down any doors hunting these drug pushers down … The really big bucks … started flowing in the 1960s. [Their]…
“Regardless of the ruling, in my eyes we won,” says Belen, who was at the hearing. “The sheer fact that we were given the attention we received, it was a win. We are now one step closer to hope and victory.” It’s likely the case will appear in the U.S. Court of Appeals for Second…
We need only to look back at recent decades to show the fallacy of trying to arrest, jail and hamper drug users with collateral consequences as a mode to address drug dependency … Defelonization is needed and a solid step forward but it is not the final destination when attempting to establish a public health approach to drug…
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