Hey
@RSin, it's always great to see new faces around here. New experiences, new personalities.... all that stuff!
Here at Bluelight, we really strive to weed through the myth and conjecture to arrive at some kind of truth. Usually, we make it to the level of educated guesses and these are better than nothing for many to say the very least. I'm 30 and many of our users are between the ages of 20-40 as one might expect, but we're using drugs that have been used by our great-great grandfathers. Opioids like Morphine are of the best known and understood chemicals used by humans. It's been studied, re-engineered, studied some more. We can say the same for Cocaine and to a slightly lesser extent, stuff like Amphetamines which are essentially "half as old" by the standard of world history as stuff like Heroin and Cocaine.
Benzodiazepines have been prescribed as a safe, reliable alternative to sedatives like Barbiturates. I believe Chlordiazepoxide (Librium) was a late-sixties thing but they only started really gaining steam in the 70's, becoming more or less the mainstay by 1990 as Barbiturates are phased out saving for outlier cases. We are only now learning how truly destructive Benzodiazepines are following decades of people becoming addicted, dependent and insane.
Kratom (Mitragynine Speciosa) has no doubt been used since before ancient history, but as a pharmaceutical, it has no current applied use in any form of medicine, hence there is a dearth of information regarding its effects. Very basic facts about Kratom have only come down to us as of recent years, such as the fact that Mitragynine and its analogs are responsible for the majority of the action of the plant, anlagous to the Opium found in the Poppy.
It's my opinion that anyone's best bet for learning about and understanding Kratom is by studying Mitragynine in the same way we don't study Poppies here on Bluelight. Your next best bet will be consulting message boards like Reddit to find a reliable vendor based upon the potency of the product. It's my understanding that there shouldn't be a radical difference between strains for the purposes of mitigating withdrawal.
We're also happy to help you out with any other withdrawal stuff dude. We can't have a strain rating or anything like that here though. It's just not our place.