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Imagine going to your Doctor regarding your codeine addiction, and receiving a prescription for methadone; or, better yet, getting some vicodin to alleviate your horrible ibuprofen habit. Sound ridiculous? Well, while most people would recognize this as incompetent malpractice, I recently read a post concerning a person addicted to Kratom, who was subsequently prescribed Suboxone (“Bupe”) as treatment. WTF? This is like being freely prescribed valium for a chocolate addiction, in other words, utterly ridiculous and complete overkill.

While Kratom addiction is entirely possible, it is generally mute in comparison to even the most freely prescribed pain medications. However, for someone who does not know the evils of legal drug addiction, and especially narcotic abuse, Kratom withdrawal can certainly impede on ones daily life. Nevertheless, anyone abusing Kratom already knows some truths inherent to the plant.

1. It can be mildly addictive if taken regularly; and if done so, it is much less addictive than most, if not all, other opiates. Of course, Please be warned: This is not to suggest that it is painless, in fact, not calibrated against other opiates, Kratom withdrawal can cause a state of anxious pain for several days. Nevertheless, most people who are not opiate users, legal or illicit, do not typically find Kratom a useful experience.
2. Secondly, it definitely has a ceiling effect of diminishing returns, where taking more is not pleasurable, and will ultimately cause a negative reaction.
3. And lastly, its short half life renders withdrawals ephemeral when compared to methadone, or even milder opiates like hydrocodone.

While Kratom is the lesser of many evils, it should NEVER be abused or taken regularly unless to ease withdrawals in an emergency situation or to taper off the various more serious opiates. However, when compared to Buprenorphine (Subutex/Suboxone) it is the safest most manageable alternative to dangerous prescription or illicit drugs. Why anyone would prescribe Suboxone to a Kratom user can only be attributed to naiveté for two major reasons.

Firstly, Subutex is almost certainly causing overdoses, unlike any reported case of Kratom use. In fact, just several months past, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration decided to start tracking Suboxone deaths due to overdose. Obviously, there is a cause for concern considering the administration is looking into Subutex, when commonly known killers are not attracting the same amount of attention, such as Methadone. Certainly, more than 170,000 drug addicts that are currently taking the medication have something to worry about, unlike any user of Kratom.

Overdoses in drug addiction patients are typically caused by mixing the treatment drug with an illicit narcotic. For instance, the methadone patient, who decides to score heroin, to get even higher, is a likely candidate for a potential overdose. Subutex, like methadone, will likely be found to cause death in a similar drug mixing manner. In contrast, the best quality of Kratom is its effective blunting of the mu opioid receptor; in other words, it renders other opiates ineffective, almost unpleasurable. Just search the web for instances of this phenomena, especially concerning the most popular opiate pain medications, such as hydrocodone and oxycontin.

It is depressing to consider anyone, never mind a Doctor, to believe that Kratom use is serious enough to warrant an opioid treatment. I do sympathize with Doctors who have to withstand opiate abusers, and also understand the many sincere pain sufferers who are not finding adequate relief. However, to treat a coffee addiction with cocaine is not going to do the patient any good, causing serious harm well into the future and risking a potential overdose situation without any reason whatsoever.

This is by far one of the best Kratom preparations I have ever known. And conveniently, it is also one of the fastest. I remember reading about a Soy milk preparation on some forgotten forum more than several years back, and no other method has ever exceeded the effects of this simple recipe:

1. Take a ceramic mug, and add about 5 tablespoons of water.
2. Microwave for 1 minute, bringing the water to a quick boil. (This step is just to ensure that the water is hot enough to easily stir in the Kratom.)
3. Add desired amount of Kratom plant material into the mug and stir.
4. Let cool for several minutes.
5. Add roughly 1 cup of Chocolate Soy Milk.
6. Down it, Chase it, Relax.

This method does not yield the best tasting provision, but it is by far the most effective. Since, you are consuming the actual plant material, and not throwing away the alkaloids with the used Kratom leaf (as with the popular tea method), the full effects can be easily appreciated.

For the more squeamish, the best secondary option would probably be capping the crushed Kratom leaf. Making Kratom capsules is definitely more palatable, and almost just as effective; but the experience is noticeably more delayed at the onset. If you absolutely cannot stomach the Soy Milk prep, and don’t mind a slightly diminished trial, check out my capping suggestions.

For anyone new to Kratom, the following tea preparation has found its way onto many of the most popular entheogen websites on the internet. While this method is definitely more palatable than other preparations I have tried in the past, I am certain that it is not only wasteful, but simply ineffective. A simple water extraction, as outlined below, simply fails to extract all of the active alkaloids from the Kratom leaf, leaving the best parts of the Kratom leaf in the trash bin. Please, if you are new to Kratom, do not waste your time or money, but most importantly, avoid the potential nausea that will likely accompany this concoction.

I am not suggesting this concoction is inherently nauseating, but since the resulting tea is so dilute, I have found that many people will imbibe up to 3x as much Kratom to reach the desired effect. Unfortunitly, this typically results in nausea, and a complete forfeiture of any redeemable qualities.

Also, as a side note, for anyone new to Kratom or currently using this concoction, please do yourself a favor and check out the soy milk preparation detailed here–not only does it taste decent, but it is an extremely fast and VERY effective preparation.

Anyway, here it is: How NOT to make Kratom Tea:

1. Take 50 grams of dried, crushed kratom leaves and place into a pot, add 1 liter of water.

2. Boil for 15 minutes.

3. Pour the tea through a strainer, and reserve the liquid in a bowl. Alternatively, use a coffee press to achieve the same results.

4. Put the leaves back in the pot, add another liter of fresh water, repeat steps 2 and 3. The Kratom leaf can now be discarded.

5. Place the combined liquid into the pot again and boil until the volume is reduced to roughly 100 ml.

Generally, the resulting tea can be stored in the fridge for 5 days. However, adding about 10% alcohol will preserve it for months (such as one part 80% Vodka).

Dosage may vary from 1/10 to 1/2 of the prepared tea, depending on tolerance. But again, please keep in mind, many people, including myself; find this concoction far more nauseating than many, if not all other tea preparations.

Well, again, I do not recommend using this method. However, if anyone has had success with this recipe, or has a better version, please let me know.