I've always been for natural over modern meds. Had I known about kratum and it's effects I may have never started on opiates anyway. However, I do use cannabis every so often. If it didn't take so much to bake with I would use much more often. I started methadone 5 years ago. I was on the lowest dose. My first visit, because of breaking cold turkey on my own 4 years prior off 15 tabs a day 4-6 xnx, everyday, coke, xtcy,rotating every other day and a slightly damaged heart when I went to the middle of no where for 10 months as a result. I often smoked allot then. Now one puff and I'm good for days it seems. Anyways getting back to the methadone, I only got 5mg. They made me wait half an hour gave me 5 more. After 6 months I was at 65mg. At the outrageous amount of money they charge after about, like I said, 6 months I had detoxed down to 20 and stopped going......off,then, of course not. Last year I started detoxing myself. With all the information I could find, and I found quite a bit, I knocked myself down to ten and I would skip and repeat. It's been 15 days now, absolutely nothing. I using a very light bp med as needed, gabepentin,kratum, I'm a&d (4 a day at start, now I'm at 3) hand fulls of pro-biotics, major digestive enzymes along with vitamins, allot of vitamins, premiere protein shakes, they're the only one with 30mg protein, anything I can get my hands on to help my body. I must say without the kratum and in tedious times cannabis I prob would've had a much harder time. I've maintained my job and I have fibromygia. These things are what man had been using down through history to medicate. Before petroleum based meds and pharmecudicles were ever thought of. This is what I keep going back to in my mind. The TEA has decided what, who, when, and money runs the world. Ridiculous. I won't let anyone have that much control over my being.