It's a good idea to open a thread like that, there is indeed a lot to discover.
The situation in the US with opioids is pretty fucked up and I won't say much since i never had this xylafent soup BUT I went through all the other opiates and a decade of addiction before finding peace and stability in this plant.
I switched to kratom around 3 years ago, and it was a damn life saver. My situation is particular, I used buprenorphine before having brown heroin and lived in a country where codeine was OTC until 2016 or 2018 dunno exactly. Raw opium was available too. The docs scripted anything from codeine to methadone.
I've been addicted to buprenorphine, then went on heroin, then methadone, then went to morphine that I ended up injecting for too long. I am clean from hard opiates and needles it has been more than 4 years. I had to go somewhere further where drugs and needles are not everywhere and even from a 80mg methadone + 600mg morphine IV + downers daily habit, I took the plane and put dozens of thousands of kilometers from me and the troubles.
Needless to say, it was incredibly painful. Beyond words. I went down from oral methadone to morphine to tramadol to codeine pills and syrup in a year . Thats when I got my hands on Kratom powder.
So yeah I got a bit of vision on other opioids before going into kratom, a plant that truly set me free from going to the pharmacies or dealers every day dealing with the looks and also all the money. At first I had no idea on how to dose it, I took too much it felt like I took too much coffee. Anyway it got me off the codeine quite easily.
I became a lot more functionnal, waking up, doing more things cleaning eating, going out. I ended up finding good dosage which was 5 grams 2 or 3 times a day yet less is more .
Feeling better with my body, healthier, clear headed and just FREE.
For me it's harder to get kratom than all the other opiates/opioids, so I had to go trhough times of no kratom. At first I switched to codeine / tram too afraid of wd but eventually discovered that kratom wds are more mental than physical. I would have some time feeling a bit down, a bit depressed and energyless but NOTHING compare to even the weakesst of opiates like codeine. This plant just feels cleaner, lighter and truly medicinal. It saves my life everyday and keeps me from using stronger drugs. I can focus on other things and overall feel so much better since I use it. I am not saying there is no wd, but it is nothing compare to quit even codeine let alone buprenorphine that for me was the hardest.
This plant is a miracle for me, and this 7-OH thing and all the analogs are very dangerous for it. Can we for once let the plant alone instead of tweaking it up to make it dangerous to all those first timers ? Why western countries keep messing up with plants and take out their soul to make it a hard drug ?
Is it a developped behaviour, the need to fuck up the nature all the time ? is it gonna be like opium because we gonna make heroin from it ? Look at cannabis with all the extracts and shit kids are losing their minds we gonna see the consequences on the new generations... It is just sad, while I am all for the research and everything, all I see is people profiting from a sacred plant to make really addictive substances without any consideration for its users... Is it a plot so everybody dies to xylatranqfent ? Because at this pace it is a matter of time before it gets banned.
