Kratom is real sneaky at becoming a full blown addiction, tolerence happens fast and eventually you will not get a high from it, you will need it to feel normal, I remember the mornings waking in withdrawal and the first thing you think of is kratom and take it straight away, sometimes to just try to sleep again. It's not really a social thing either. you will rather stay in kratomised than go out and in fear of not being able to get it if you need it. Eventually a weird anxiety kept creeping into my burns and i stopped. Tapering it is really difficult because even a gram less caused w/d and because of inconsistancy between batches of kratom.The good thing about it is that I don't have cravings for it, they stopped after 5 days of w/d from it, it's like when your off kratom you appreciate sanity again, this is where its different to opiates I think. I tried to take kratom recreationally again but ended up binging on it for 2 weeks and decided that I wont be able to use it like that. I even got a w/d from the 2 week binge.