My guest is Dr. Marc Swogger from the University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Swogger is a social scientist and psychologist who studies substance use. He has co-authored multiple studies on the individual and public health effects of the use of kratom. Studies discussed in this interview: Marc T. Swogger, Elaine Hart, …
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by Brian Gallagher for KratomScience.com Listen to this story on Episode 20 of the Kratom Science Podcast. All her life Jennifer Van Blunk dreamed of being in the United States Navy until an injury prevented her from completing basic training. The physical and emotional pain led to a decade of opiate addiction. After years on …
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by Cassidy Reese Note: Our “Kratom Stories” series is usually presented in interview format. Cassidy sent us this detailed, fully formed story in response to my initial questions, so I decided to post it as-is with very little editing -Brian My name is Cassidy Reese and I currently live in Lake Charles, La. I have …
Michael Napolitano is an army veteran who describes himself as a “street guy.” Mike is 57 years old from New York, NY. He started using pain pills when he was 15, which led to a lifelong opiate addiction. Mike cleaned up for six years while in the army, but started back again shortly after being …
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Nick Clark’s military career didn’t end well, but he says he’s earned a “Junkie Badge of Honor” for dancing at a New Orleans strip club for men to earn money to buy drugs. Nick was addicted to opiates and homeless by the age of 17. His father was a crack addict, and his girlfriend (now …
Last week on his podcast This Life You Live, celebrity addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky called chronic pain patients “borderline druggies” for seeking medical treatment in the form of pain medication. Not surprisingly, this angered thousands of chronic pain patients who are now struggling to receive proper treatment from their doctors in the aftermath of …
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Amy Wike is a mother of two from Kansas. She goes by @MonnieLV2019 on Twitter. Amy suffers from chronic pain due to severe stress on her back from working for several years in a beef processing plant. After being cut off by her doctors from conventional opioid pain medicine, she discovered kratom. Amy devotes her …
DISCLAIMER: This article is simply a collection of comments posted to our page by former opioid addicts. This is not meant to be a definitive guide. Opioid users should do as much research as possible on kratom before making a decision to acquire some. We encourage anyone reading this to be very careful, as mitragynine, …
KratomScience: Where are you from and what is your occupation? Matthew Catlin: I’m from Bohemia on Long Island in New York. I have been a commercial heating and air conditioning mechanic for around 10 years. KS: How long have you been consuming kratom? MC: I have been using Kratom for almost 2 years. KS: Why …
Slowly but surely, government is responding to the relentless advocacy of the kratom community and the American Kratom Association. In addition to the state governments of Georgia, Utah, and Arizona (that recently decided to regulate rather than ban kratom), the House of Representatives and the National Institutes on Drug Abuse are listening to our calls …
