After getting into a car accident and being GROSSLY overprescribed meds by my doctor, I became heavily addicted to opiates. My doctor prescribed pills and fentanyl patches to me for seventeen years, then abruptly cut me off. After seventeen years of being a functioning addict - I had a career, a successful household with a husband and two children,  I ended up going to a methadone clinic and being exposed to street drugs while there. I lost EVERYTHING. I ended up going cold turkey off methadone and "street" drugs. Six months later, I could still hardly function due to extreme pain from the 20 year old car accident injuries and also due to the damage I suffered from taking opiates for so long. Then I read about KRATOM and decided it was worth a try. I am now functioning, rebuilding my life. I am working again and bought a house and car. Please don't make KRATOM illegal.