"...toxicology lab found extremely high levels of an alkaloid called mitragynine in his postmortem blood sample..."
"The reported 3,500 nanograms of mitragynine found in Dana’s bloodstream is tremendously high."
"...the exact concentration of kratom he took, and the redistribution of drug compounds after death in the bloodstream, remains unknown."
(Pretty evident, if it WAS the cause of death...the good sergeant was dosing it like an idiot.)
"Based on what has been publicly released, Ed Boyer, a toxicologist at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that it would be impossible to definitively ascribe the death to kratom. “In general,” he said, “weightlifters ingest a whole hoard of things, ---including cardiotoxic substances,--- which could produce pulmonary edema.”
"Bulking up..." (Did you even read the entire article? It's kind of a joke...and pretty much suggests other causes for his death.)
"When he was bodybuilding, he would take all kinds of supplements,...” Hmm
My own life experience tells me that rural M.E.'s have been known to "do the right thing" for fallen LEO families.
I helped pull a cop out of his cruiser after witnessing an accident. He smelled like a whiskey distillery and had been seen driving erratically and at high speeds...but not one of the people involved (including me) said a word about it. Drunk driving of a police cruiser would have taken the survivors benefits away from his kids...and his peers went around to every witness on the scene, including me, explaining this. Don't kid yourself...it happens all the time. That trooper was wasted out of his mind. No question. (and I stand by my silence about the smell on him. Why harm his kids for his stupidity? Cops have a tough job.)
Your statement (whether intended or not) is a "strawman."
I suggested the smallest dosing possible to handle the specific users pain.
Not sure how it could have been presented more clearly or carefully. I don't see where "totally innocent herb" was even implied.
Once you learn a little about the options open to those in need of analgesia, you understand NONE of the options are perfect or without any risk.
I can tell you this with 100% certainty, however: The record of Kratom safety elsewhere on the planet speaks for itself.
For hundreds of years. It can be bought freely without any script...at loads of retail outlets...and the puritan Nazi's have been after it like a hound chasing a fox.
The US seems to want to put kiddie-bumpers on the bowling lanes of life to benefit idiots who pollute our gene pool.
It makes huge issues for those of us able to stand on our own and accept consequences for making our own choices.
Perhaps doing a little unbiased research, like comparing how many are in the ground due to Oxy overdoses. Aspirin. Ibuprofen. BP meds. Penicillin. Bee stings. Alcohol poisoning. Trigger happy, roided-out "bulked up" cops...
Get back to me after you do that.
Now, if this works like it normally does, one of two mods will close the thread since it now contains conflict.
(After all, we need those kiddie bumpers on forum lanes too...)
BTW---36 hours without any blue pills now.
