Kratom in the News January 2018
Chronic Pain Community Finds a New Warrior
By Ed Coghlan.
When the National Pain Report ran a story on the Pain Advocacy Coalition it elicited immediate and positive response from our readership.
The Pain Advocacy Coalition is an online chronic pain community that is using digital tools to lobby Congress and their state Governors on what it perceives to be the unfairness of the CDC Guideline on Opioid Prescribing on pain patients.
One member of the Coalition is an example of the part of the chronic pain community that thinks they’ve been unfairly targeted.
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http://nationalpainreport.com/chronic-pain-community-finds-a-new-warrior-8835248.html
CBD Kratom's Customers Swear By Its Product. The Feds Want to Make It Illegal
On Morganford Road in Tower Grove South, between a fitness studio and a sports bar, sits CBD Kratom. What at least a few neighbors have mistaken for a large pot leaf is decaled on the store's window. Written in chalk on the sign out front are the questions, "In Pain? Anxious?"
Inside, the wall behind the counter is lined with jars filled with kratom, a drug that looks like pale green sawdust. Affixed to each jar is a label: Red Bali, White Gold, Green Sumatra, Yellow Borneo. There are more than 40 different strains.
The menu is helpful for first-timers, breaking down where each kratom strain originated from and how it affects the user. Yellow Borneo, for instance, is said to provide "euphoria, a strong clear minded energy." The Green Maeng Da is described as a "very effective pain reliever" that also "gives you a strong boost of energy." Variations of "euphoric" — a "simple euphoric effect," an "intense euphoric effect," "extremely euphoric" — appear all over the menu. Some strains are better used as a pick-me-up, others ideally taken before going to sleep. If you have questions, the woman behind the counter can tell you more about kratom than most Starbucks baristas can say about coffee.
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