• oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    23 days ago

    being marketed in the most absurd ways

    The incentives are kind of perverse, everybody in the chain other than the buyer gains from getting and keeping you addicted, rather than incentivizing it’s use to get people off of harder opioids. Most everything in society, from fast food to gambling to other psychoactive substances is like that too though, it’s a problem by no means unique to Kratom. In my mind Gambling and a Kratom addiction are actually quite similar, not really much of a physical danger, you can largely still be a productive member of society, but it gets to be a massive financial drain.