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…
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…
*In 2015, activists with the Weed for Warriors project dumped pill bottles and syringes in front of the White House lawn to drawn attention to the overprescription of opioid drugs to wounded veterans. Then, last May, protesters held a “die-in” at the New Hampshire State House when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price…
In the end, the board members weren’t persuaded that the kratom deserved immediate destruction. The [plant] material — was seized, and heath department personnel wanted to pour bleach over it, rendering it useless. But [the business] management refused to go along with this plan, prompting the DEH crew to issue a cease-and-desist order in regard…
More quietly, women have taken the lead when it comes to drug policy. [It is] the first time ever that two of the most prominent drug-policy reform organizations in America—the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and the Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC)—are both headed by women. As it did in the 1920s, America is currently facing a…
In 2017, research published (pdf) in the journal Neuropharmacology concluded that more research needed to be done on kratom, but that available evidence has not shown that any deaths have occurred due to use of kratom alone. Dr. Gottlieb’s far-reaching claims & untested computer models show how desperate they are to influence an outright ban.…
*In November 2017, the Philippine President Duerte said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I sang uninvited, upon the orders of the commander-in-chief of the United States,” Duterte said later, according to the ABS-CBN news channel. One of the song’s verses, translated from Filipino, begins: “You are the light in my world, a half of this heart of mine”. In a…
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