Kratom: Not The Demon The FDA Claims It Is.

My name is Justin and I would like to talk for a bit about the benefits of kratom and how the FDA and Big Pharma are running a smear campaign against this wonderful plant. First, I would like to tell you a little bit about how kratom has helped me improve my quality of life.
Ever since I was a teenager I have been addicted to anything I could get my hands on. It didn't matter what it was, as long as it could ease my physical pain and help me forget about life for a while. Years ago, I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, Bi-Polar Disorder, and I show signs of Asperger's, although not officially diagnosed. I have been prescribed several different drugs, from several different doctors, and nothing I was given ever helped. I always resorted back to obtaining things illegally, because I knew what worked. I was also drinking heavily every day, which is not healthy in the least.
I first read about kratom when the DEA planned to schedule it in 2016. I figured I might as well give it a try while it was legal and easily obtainable, just to see what all the hype was about. I was doing a little repair work on a garage down the street the day my first package arrived. I took a break and ran home to get my mail after I saw the mailman go down the street. I took my first dose and went back to what I was doing. A half hour later, I was amazed at how smooth and pain free everything was going! I usually have severe pain issues with everything I try to do and I actually had it down to a manageable level!
Normally, the first thing I would do after any physical activity was go to the gas station, buy a twelve pack, go home, and drink it all. This day I didn't. I didn't even feel like drinking. I went home and watched TV until bedtime. I'm not 100% cured of all my ailments, but I am able to manage a lot better than I did before, and I do it without having to constantly be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
The FDA has now blamed 44 deaths on kratom. I challenge you to look at their list of deaths and find one that did not contain other substances in the person's system, or other underlying factors. You can't do it because there isn't one. They even had a suicide and a murder on that list, as being caused by kratom. The computer model they made public to show that kratom was an opioid was based on junk science and proved nothing. You could throw anything in that program and the results would have been the same.
The CDC decided to join in on the fun the other day, by falsely claiming that kratom caused a salmonella outbreak. This was supposedly 28 cases over about four months across the entire country. They said eight of the eleven people they interviewed took kratom! That's 73%! Do you see what is wrong with this math yet? They interviewed eleven people, but there were 28 total cases, so that is actually eight out of 28. That is not even close to half, so how does that prove kratom caused the outbreak? It doesn't! It actually proves there was likely another common factor causing it.
If you or someone you love are thinking about trying kratom, please get your information from reliable sources, not these corporations who are owned by Big Pharma and do their bidding. There are several places on line to get the actual facts, if you look hard enough. Please help us spread these facts and do not let corporate greed win the war against a safe and helpful plant.