Kratom is snake oil. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health...
It's been working wonders for me (for over two years now) and so many other people, both in pain relief as well as alcohol withdrawal.
That article doesn't really say much. What's the relevant part of it that leads you to believe it's "snake oil"?
Edit: Plus if you're in the situation described in the OP you don't really worry about "dry mouth" or "dizziness" or other minor side effects (I've personally only experienced nausea when combined with nicotine).
Kratom is snake oil. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health...
It's not snake oil - with the right dosage it definitely produces opiate-like effects while avoiding the deadly dangers of opiate/alcohol overdose.
However, it is just another addictive drug with it's own unpleasant side-effects. And tastes like earwax. If someone can substitute Kratom for Fentanyl or heavy drinking, I would consider that a win. However, for the average person picking up a Kratom addiction is not a good idea.
My older brother is an alcoholic. I suspect it's somewhat cliche to say, but when he's sober he's the nicest guy I know - almost nobody else I'd rather spend time with - and when he's drunk, he's chaos. The past few years he's been really struggling with sobriety - on and off like a roller coaster. The pandemic was an absolute nightmare for someone like him - in between jobs, trying to stay sober, trying to find the…
Has he tried antabuse or something like that? Those pills make you vomit when you drink and are quite effective in harnessing the body's natural anti-poison response system to curb drinking.
These are pretty often contraindicated in cases like this, especially when the patient is also managing anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds.
As long as we're pushing preferred narratives (in your case: public health measures = bad), maybe it's because hospitals and treatment rooms were full of unvaccinated individuals and people who declined to social-distance or wear masks, preventing alcoholics in distress from getting the acute treatments they need. Certainly a lot of cancer patients died that way[1][2][3][4][5]. I know a lot of people who took advanta…
> Certainly a lot of cancer patients died that way. This was not my experience, n=1 of course. My SO came down with lymphoma in November 2020. All of the appointments with the oncologist and all of the appointments for treatment took place at a cancer center dedicated to treating cancer patients. Other procedures generally took place at locations that did not offer emergency services (think biopsies and port installa…
That’s an aritificially hostile take, isn’t it? Most people read “ the pandemic” as the global event that started around the beginning of 2020 and certainly that’s how this article and it’s title are using it. Even if you don’t read the article, it feels like a leap to assume that they’re suggesting that the virus itself somehow made people drink more irresponsibly or made people collectively more vulnerable to alcoh…
I'd say it's mainly that those who have been heavily advocating all of the lockdown measures throughout the pandemic have behaved more or less like there were no side effects and we should do them for the greater good (basically virtue signaling). The other isle has advocated that maybe we shouldn't cause that kind of turmoil in society just to spare a few years of lifespan of the elderly (which is a harsh take but d…
While outdoor masking is silly, the your rage seems disproportionate if that is the source.
I've been accused of 'virtue signaling' during the pandemic, but supporting family members whose immune systems were largely disable from chemotherapy makes putting a mask on seem like a small sacrifice. Your take on 'spare a few years of lifespan' is perhaps not untrue, but is an easy 'internet take' when there is anonymity. It is less cute when one is face-to-face with the disposable person, or to someone who watched a family member die.
"For some reason" there are temptations to addiction all around us, and alcohol is only one. We can't treat being human as merely a medical condition. Human cultures have adapted using shame as a tool.
The medical condition is a predilection to addiction, alcohol or otherwise. Shame doesn't cure cancer or make you recover from a common cold.
Predilection to addiction isn't a recognized medical condition like diabetes or heart failure. There is no diagnosis code for it. Some people seem more prone to addiction and there may be some genetic risk factors but anyone can become an addict.
Small kids. Non-stop work. No help from parents or the government. In my country if you're a freelancer, you got zero pandemic-related stipends. Has ended in divorce. Traumatized kids. I'm an emotional wreck, but I try to hide it and soldier on. There's only so much people can take before they give up.
Child of (now many times) divorced parents. It's often the right choice. Just try not to bad mouth the other parent in front of them. That hurts worse than having two Christmases.
I notice that "the pandemic" is quickly found as the root cause and no analysis at all is done to identify if the response to the pandemic is to be implicated as well. I'd wager that waking up one day and discovering that one's job is not essential might be stressful. Being forbidden from going to the beaches and parks might have contributed. The stress of learned helplessness from countless bureaucratic decisions la…
Yes, sadly it appears this is likely the case.
It appears that the reaction to the virus has possibly caused so much more harm than the virus itself.
Sounds more like a problem with how stories/tasks are split.
Being part of a team means being part of a team and communication and connecting with the team to be a coherent whole, not just logging in and staring at your ticket todo list and not speaking to anyone.
If you're blocked because you can't get an answer from a teammate within the next few hours, you're doing it wrong.
I notice that "the pandemic" is quickly found as the root cause and no analysis at all is done to identify if the response to the pandemic is to be implicated as well. I'd wager that waking up one day and discovering that one's job is not essential might be stressful. Being forbidden from going to the beaches and parks might have contributed. The stress of learned helplessness from countless bureaucratic decisions la…
Isn’t most of that stuff due to “the pandemic” lockdowns?