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Board of Pharmacy
 
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Regulations Governing the Practice of Pharmacy [18 VAC 110 ‑ 20]
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6/4/24  2:13 am
Commenter: Allan T Dinegar

About making the alkaloids and Kratom schedule one
 

I am 69 years old and spent many years on pharmaceutical opiate/opoid pain medication‘s, which ultimately put me in rehab for two months and almost killed me. I have substantial pain because of a number of physical conditions and when I stopped doing the opiates and opioids, I became depressed because I was in pain all the time and didn’t have anything to take that would help. That is, until I discovered an herb in the coffee, family called Mitragyna Speciosa-KRATOM.

Also, before I discovered Kratom, my doctor gave me Suboxone as pain management and I thought it might be helpful, but I developed severe iron deficiency anemia after being on Suboxone for a couple years. This is when I discovered Kratom and it has literally save my life! Please don’t take away the one thing that helps with my pain and enables me to function every day. If Kratom becomes outlawed, I will have no place to go to help with my pain because I can never go back on opiates or opioids again.

i most humbly ask that you allow Kratom to remain accessible to everyone.

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