Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
From what I understand, it’s a stimulant and people with ADHD are self medicating with it and developing a dependency on it. I don’t know exactly how it harms the body though.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
From what I understand, it’s a stimulant and people with ADHD are self medicating with it and developing a dependency on it. I don’t know exactly how it harms the body though.
BurgerBaron@quokk.au 1 week ago
Metta Beshar is a decent drug user/educator who has ADHD and went over his own addiction and widthdrawal in his video here:
https://youtu.be/Pqx_bMGeGwc
Mind you it’s a combined video where he tries 7-OH as well. Not everyone wants to watch a video so:
Metta presents Kratom’s American story as an “ethnobotany 101” case study. Every time a culture meets a new substance it has no experience with, it goes through a chaotic phase of not knowing how to use it in a responsible manner. Going from raw leaf to a powder, to extracts, and now 7-OH pills which are getting banned all over.
Metta is still on and off user and doesn’t want to quit outright. He just dialed usage back. He describes Kratom withdrawal symptoms as runny nose, body aches, and insomnia like a less severe opioid-type withdrawal and says it’s “not as scary as a lot of people think” but that it depends on how deep and how long you were in. Tolerance creep he describes as starting at 2–3g → 6g → 8g before quitting after 4-5 years. Some people get dangerous with it and go up to 28g or even 50g/day. He also described the typical experience I’ve had with chemically addictive substances where you constantly find reasons to “treat” yourself as a reward for doing something.
His active user experience:
The active compound in Kratom is called Mitragynin which is a partial mu-opioid agonist. You get the opioid feel (relaxation, mild euphoria, pain relief) but with a built-in ceiling so it stays mellow.
Nothing like K2, Don.