Now I understand this was a while ago, but for the sake of correct information, that kid who died had taken kratom and something else with his poppy seed tea. Mixing multiple downers and if I recall correctly a barbituate.
AND, the number of alkaloids on seeds can vary greatly (thus you should drink the tea very slowly over an hour or more), if you find a place to get unwashed seeds (I have), you would be pleasantly surprised. I was on pain medication for quite some time and still am just I've lowered my doses considerably (finally) because of a parachuting accident. Anyways, I would take at first up to and sometimes over a 100mg of hydrocodone a day until I was moved up to Oxycodone, of which I would take 100-160mg a day. And just recently I tried the seed tea again, and I found it considerably pleasant and extremely powerful. I'm a large man considering I haven't been able to workout in over eight months too, slow metabolism and all and I find the PST to be very, very, powerful if done right.
Don't boil it, you are destroying the alkaloids when you do that, what I do? Put seeds in a gallon milk jug, warm water in the jug from the faucet, shake for ten minutes, let sit for twenty minutes, then shake for another ten, then strain out the liquid using the lid. Then very slowly consume the concoction, as it is VERY true that you have absolutely no clue how much you are taking. I honestly never tried it before due to the fact that I had such a low tolerance, but with a massive tolerance like I have now I was a little more confident that I wouldn't end up comatose.
Now, I have also evaporate a solution made from poppy seeds and come out with raw/cooked opium that could be eaten and smoked and the effects were/are considerably stronger than the PST. I use iso alcohol 99%, make sure the alcohol is a few centimeters above the poppy seeds, shake for some time, basically same thing, ten min shake, twenty min sitting, another ten min shake, and then strain it out into a pyrex dish, put a fan over it to increase evaporation rate by moving the air more quickly, and wait. I've found that just full on lighting it doesn't work, you are burning it and probably destroying the alkaloids, instead you want to vaporize it in my experience.
Now, to make the opium you do need VERY GOOD seeds. And its... poorly refined opium, I find it hard to even call it opium, but that really is what it is.
I have a buddy who has a bit of a more in-depth process and he actually gets flakes of opium out of it that can be insufflated and all.
I find people underestimating PST ALL the time. It blows my mind because I've found it to be extremely enjoyable, and if like me you use it for pain, you'll find it is far better than hydrocodone for killing pain, and definitely on par with oxycodone. (Though I believe oxycodone just increases tolerance for pain)