There's a show on Netflix called Leaf of Faith.
It's about pain and the opioid crisis.
The "host" is one in a family of power lifters who fugged himself up hoisting up record weights. He got hook and then found Kratom.
My wife has Arthritis and Fibromialgia. Late last century, her doc sent her to pain management who put her and others on heavy pain killers. She noticed that she was having a problem and asked him to change her 'script t methadone. Little by little she cut her dosage in half until she was off it. Shortly after, the doc got in trouble and had to close down because patients were dying. Didn't get arrested, just had to stop for a couple years.
My wifey recently got some and she helps a lot. Probably more if she took more, only one at a time.
Fla had made it a schedule 1 narcotic, but after white people bum rushed their representatives, they legalized it.
My joints ache due to years of winter surfing. I take one before bed. I get a good buzz and and my schitt quits hurting.