Opioids "Withdrawal-Ease" - Opiate W/D Formula... anyone been seeing this stuff? on Google

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"Withdrawal-Ease" - Opiate W/D Formula... anyone been seeing this stuff? on Google

Yo guys, for the last few months I keep seeing this banner/Google Ad Word Link for a product called "withdrawal-ease" -- Google knows that I've been searching for opiate withdrawal info.

maybe some of you guys have seen the banners too:
http://www.withdrawal-ease.com/

I'm really skeptical of "herbal formulas" and I'm not sure that the testimonials on that site are real. It's like $90 with no money-back guarantee. I've tried to track down some independent reviews and can't seem to find any that I know are legit...

the only reason I'm bothering to ask is that -- I honestly see an advertisement for this stuff EVERYWHERE... they are obviously spending a lot of money to try and sell their formula. Obviously some of the most heavily advertised products are the most illegitimate - but I wanted to see if anyone has actually used the formulas. On paper, I don't think it would do anything better than 5mg of Valium

here are the ingredients:

Passion Flower
Lemon Balm
Guar Gum
Pomegranate
Arabic Gum
Elm Bark
Horse Radish Ext. 4:1
Mucuna Prureins Ext. 20%
Echinacea Angustifolia Ext. 4%
Peppermint Leaves
Green Tea Ext. 50%
Panax Ginseng Ext 4%
Anise Seed Powder
Cayenne Pepper
Ginger Ext. 4:1
Tumeric Ext 95%
Vitamin B1 – Thiamine
Vitamin B6 – Pyridoxine HCL
Folate – Folic Acid
Viatamin B12 – Cyanocobalamine
L-Tyrosine
Zinc
Copper
Magnesium (Oxide)
Magnesium (Stearate)
Withdrawal-Ease Night Time Formulation
Full Ingredient List:
Gaba
Melatonin
Milk Thistle Ext.
Alpha Lipoic Acid
Reduced Glutathione
Valerian Root Ext. 0.8%
Methionine
NAC – N-Acytl-L-Cysteine


... just a bunch of herbs and vitamins right?

 

[woamotive]

Sounds like a waste of money and research in my opinion (well, maybe not the latter). Many of these ingredients are actually useful in easing w/d symptoms. I'd say that the good old fashioned methods : exercise (if able), eating well - balanced meals (as well as possible), sleeping as much as possible, magnesium, B Vitamins, YES - benzos can/will ease symptoms but one must be careful when taking these (you don't want a replacement drug).

Many of the herbs such as Passion flower, Melatonin, Valerian, green tea, peppermint, Echinacea , are definitely useful in treating various things such as restlessness, lethargy, weakened immune system, inability to sleep, stomach pains...

Bottom line: I'd say not worth the buy. One can purchase individual supplements, sleep, exercise, eat well - and get the same benefits.

 

[verso]

It's $89.95... are they fucking kidding?

I'd just head on over to Wal*Mart, pick up one of these...

... and probably score a valium on my way out of the store from some employee on his smoke break.

 

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hey I see you didn't recommend "loperamide" Imodium-AD -- I've "beaten" withdrawal a few times and I don't think loperamide ever did anything for me... but I know a lot of guys SWEAR by it. what do you think?

Maybe the liquid Imodium worked better? the generic loperamide tabs honestly did nothing.

I think Kava (yogi brand) was decent for anxiety

 

[RedLightSpecial]

It's $89.95... are they fucking kidding?

... and probably score a valium on my way out of the store from some employee on his smoke break.

hahah I'll check

 

[sekio]

It's just a bunch of herbs and vitamins.

It's like $90 with no money-back guarantee. I've tried to track down some independent reviews and can't seem to find any that I know are legit...

Oh, imagine that.

It comes as no surprise to me that marketers would prey off of opiate addicts. Or people uneducated about medicine in general - how many homeopathic products have you seen for sale recently?

 

[RedLightSpecial]

It's just a bunch of herbs and vitamins.



Oh, imagine that.

It comes as no surprise to me that marketers would prey off of opiate addicts. Or people uneducated about medicine in general - how many homeopathic products have you seen for sale recently?

This product 'withdrawal-ease' honestly pops up EVERYWHERE for me.. any page that has google ads, my email (gmail based), etc. I think a "real" doctor designed it. They have "Better Business Bureau" images up everywhere on their site. They even have an affiliate program that says:

Want to Help People and Make Some Extra Money?
Become a Withdrawal-Ease Affiliate!

Obviously, I’m not a professional e-commerce guru but I have recently learned about affiliate marketing on the web and it’s so amazingly simple and perfect for a product that relies mostly on word-of-mouth and referrals.

Why not help people take their first step to recovery AND make some money?!



edit: actually maybe a "real" doctor didnt design it "Dr. Earthman" haha, probably not a real doctor.

I think its a good cause to design a formula and info product to help people who want to get off drugs... but this one clearly looks like its all about stealing peoples $

every time you click their banners, its costs them $2-3

 

[sekio]

One thing I know about marketing: a good salesman can sell you a turd for $50. You'll realize it after the fact; but when he's pitching it to you that turd may seem like it's worth a million bucks. Continually shoving advertising in the face of clients is a good way to do this, esp. if it can be done with context sensitivity (doing a lot of Google searches for withdrawal, are we now? BUY HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS) and you only need one person in a thousand to keep your business profitable ($90 herbal supplemments manufactured for 90 cents).

It doesn't matter who designed the product, it's got a bunch of fucking minerals and vitamins and herbs in it. There's nothing in that supplement that you cannot get from normal herbal supplementations and (like verso said) a Centrum Complete... you'd pay about a quarter of the price for a bottle of multivitamins, I'd bet.

 

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One thing I know about marketing: a good salesman can sell you a turd for $50. You'll realize it after the fact; but when he's pitching it to you that turd may seem like it's worth a million bucks. Continually shoving advertising in the face of clients is a good way to do this, esp. if it can be done with context sensitivity (doing a lot of Google searches for withdrawal, are we now? BUY HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS) and you only need one person in a thousand to keep your business profitable ($90 herbal supplemments manufactured for 90 cents).

It doesn't matter who designed the product, it's got a bunch of fucking minerals and vitamins and herbs in it. There's nothing in that supplement that you cannot get from normal herbal supplementations and (like verso said) a Centrum Complete... you'd pay about a quarter of the price for a bottle of multivitamins, I'd bet.

that's definitely true. Herbal compounds are especially inexpensive and are often marked up 20x. Companies always claim they have the "highest quality" herbal ingredients to justify the price. The testimonials on that website must be fake then.

its got more than Centrum has -- with the herbs and some aminos (such as gaba and L-theanine) but probably insignificant amounts overall

 

[Pegasus]

Things like valerian/ mulungu/ kava will be good on their own. Throwing all that crap in one supplement is ridiculous. For each of these herbs, you want to verify the source and know how to dose them for best effect, which is not going to happen when they are all mixed together.

 

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Things like valerian/ mulungu/ kava will be good on their own. Throwing all that crap in one supplement is ridiculous. For each of these herbs, you want to verify the source and know how to dose them for best effect, which is not going to happen when they are all mixed together.

considering its a capsuled-based formula... its probably just trace amounts of all of these compounds that make up the "complex" -- effect: none

 

[sekio]

Conclusion: Don't buy this product.
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