Interesting thread. I get a kick out of all the marijuana and kratom people looking to replace opioids with their drug of choice. We have an opioid epidemic because of unsubstantiated claims being accepted as fact and now we are going to propose another solution that has a similar lack of science? I mean, at leasr morphine had like 2 centuries of use.
And yeah, kratom and marijuana is natural...but, ummm, yeah...so aren't opiates.
I also don't buy the "rotate strains to avoid addiction" theories. It makes no sense. If you are activating a receptor group, rotating the strains may have some benefit by mixing up which sub receptors get hit to what degree - but you are still going to have issues.
Addiction is complicated, that is for sure. And of course there would be a genetic component. We are machines that interact with our environmeny and our genes are the instruction manual for how to process information and run that machinery.
Interesting topic. Glad to hear the child is doing better. It sucks to see someone in pain, but I honestly would take as much pain as I could handle acutely before I personally used opioids.
The decision is tough though. My dad had a stroke in October and then severe internal bleeding in January while in recovery and on blood thinners. He was in BAD shape and I was still hesitant about the fentanyl...but if course it was a more appropriate use and I wasn't going to try to stop it. I will say, he had signs of use...call it addiction or not...even a week or two after and he was only on for a coupke days. He did get hit up pretty hard though with 150 mcg/hr.