Researchers from both North Carolina and Florida say the FDA did not compile acceptable research to be able to classify the drug the same schedule as heroin, LSD or Ecstasy. Researchers agree the alkaloids contained in Kratom to bind to receptors the way opioids do, but at a milder level. The plant as whole has…
My take? If Dr. Gottlieb’s statement were a pharmacology graduate student’s written qualifying exam answer to a question seeking an objective assessment of kratom pharmacology and toxicology, I’d have no choice but to issue a failing grade … I say this all with great respect for Dr. Gottlieb, a physician and former Forbes contributor, 1. You failed…
FDA officials have recommended kratom be categorized as a Schedule 1 drug, which would effectively mean that scientists would not be able to study its effects …“The problem with saying it’s ‘an opioid’ without qualification is that it just paints everything with this broad brush, and obviously carries a negative connotation given what’s going on…
Anti-kratom activists, led by FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, are committed to protecting the opioid manufacturers who are raking in billions of dollars every year by hooking honest Americans who are trying to manage chronic pain on highly addictive and potentially deadly opioids. I am not going to mince words, I am frustrated. There is no…
Just one of the FDA’s cases appears to involve the presence of kratom alone, though the report includes no information on the death apart from the subject’s age and ethnicity. The report shows the individual tested positive for high levels of mitragynine [which is a industrialized and processed extract of the Kratom plant, distinct from…
“It’s a unique plant that deserves to remain legal,” Brockler said. “It was green Kratom that I started with,” said Emily Szarak, a user of the supplement. “That has been a lifesaver. I feel like a human again.” Szarak [said] she turned to Kratom after years of taking prescription pills to treat chronic pain. Original…
*tax-payer funded DEA offices The medical potential of kratom is widely unknown. Plants are rarely studied for medical use in the United States, which is why there is never “enough research” to determine whether or not doctors can refer to them as “safe and effective” and recommend their use. The “active ingredient” in kratom is…
*Friedrich Bayer ( 6. June 1825 in Barmen-Wichlinghausen; † 6. May 1880 in Würzburg) Unfortunately, this buyout only strengthened… [Bayer’s] lobbying power. Bayer, the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, made a deal to buy out Monsanto for $66 billion, even though Monsanto was voted “the most evil company in the world” back in 2013.…
So as an industrial medicinal chemist, I have some problems with the way the FDA is making its case here. It’s true that computational models of drug function have become more common, but “reliable” is a tricky word. If these things were truly reliable, to the point that you’d be comfortable setting government policy according…
*from the anti-plant propaganda movie, Reefer Madness. Currently legal in the United States, millions of Americans have safely used kratom for therapeutic… purposes. In recent years, federal agencies which have no regard for individual liberty like the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration have set their sights on kratom. Proponents of safe…
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