The Gas Station Habit: Kratom Recovery Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe kratom and 7-OH dependence and the work of stopping. People came to it through a fall from a ladder, a wish to drink less wine, grief after thirty-eight years of marriage, arthritic hands, night driving and a roommate's hangover remedy. They include an HVAC technician, a school bus driver, a retail pharmacist, a night-shift nurse, a chemistry PhD student, a high school football coach and a Thai rubber farmer who chewed the leaf for thirty years, from Tulsa and Hazard to Utrecht, Toronto, Brisbane and Surat Thani. Some tapered slowly at home or planned a quit around the summer break, while others worked with a doctor and a prescription, the VA, a counsellor or a church men's group. Writers describe twenty-dollar bills taken from a children's savings jar, withdrawal on a trip to Japan, a pregnancy test on the counter beside a bottle of powder, and a mother who found tablets in her son's car while hiding her own. The harder outcomes are here too: a night of tablets and tequila that a friend says nearly ended a life, a seizure, yellowed eyes, a skipping heart, relapse, and one writer still tapering as she writes. Many name a single honest conversation as the turning point.

Who it's for

For anyone using kratom or 7-OH who is starting to worry, anyone in the middle of withdrawal, and the partners, parents and friends who love them and want to understand.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 247 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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