Fears and evidence clash in the battle over kratom WHYY
For Sean, most days start with the same ritual. He spoons a mound of olive-green powder onto a circle of rice paper, twists it into a small pouch, and downs it …
Month: May 2018
Kratom Users Say It’s a Miracle Drug. The Feds Say It’s Dangerous. Mother Jones
For years, Susan Ash was crippled by pain from Lyme disease. She rarely left her bed except to see her doctors, who prescribed her increasingly powerful pain …
A Bleary Unicorn: The Elusive Hangover Cure – The Crux Discover Magazine
From freezing showers to ingesting prickly pear to smoking joints, everyone has a home remedy for alcohol’s notorious afterglow: the hangover. Mongolian men …
The Psychedelic Renaissance: Trip Reports from Timothy Leary, Michael Pollan, and Tao Lin The New Yorker
In 1960, Allen Ginsberg wrote a letter to Timothy Leary, then a professor at Harvard. Leary had invited the poet to Cambridge to participate in his studies of the …
FDA Issues Warning to Companies Selling Kratom-Containing Products Clinical Pain Advisor
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued warnings to 3 companies selling kratom-containing products that include unsubstantiated claims …
FDA warns three more kratom marketers over opioid treatment, other disease claims NutraIngredients-usa.com
Kratom is again in the crosshairs as federal authorities sent out three more warning letters to companies making illegal opioid addiction treatment claims for the …
FDA continues crackdown on controversial supplement kratom MarketWatch
In its latest crackdown on the controversial dietary supplement kratom, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued warning letters to three …
Meth ‘has always been here’; now it’s on the rise The Columbian
of people who used heroin as their main drug were interested in reducing or stopping their opioid use. 364. meth-related deaths in 2016, compared to 120 in …
Debate grows over the use of herbal supplement Kratom ABC6OnYourSide.com
The herbal supplement, Kratom is being used to treat pain and anxiety among other things. The supplement is popular, but the FDA and some doctors are …
Fresh Air: Michael Pollan Explains The ‘New Science Of Psychedelics’ : Shots – Health News NPR
Author Michael Pollan, who experimented with mushrooms, LSD and other psychedelics while researching his latest book, says: “I had an experience that was …