IN-DEPTH_ The Legal Drug That’s Destroying Lives, and the Community That’s Providing Hope (Janice Hisle - THE EPOCH TIMES)

THE EPOCH TIMES

The Legal Drug That’s Destroying Lives, and the Community That’s Providing Hope

Unpaid volunteers who have been addicted to kratom, an opioid-like substance, are providing data that could help federal regulators set policies.

Decima Davis, 51, poses in front of computer screens she uses for her work and for her role as president of Quitting Kratom Support—There is A Way Out, a quitting-kratom support group, at her home in Mississippi. Davis said after she started taking kratom, a tropical plant often billed as a healthy pick-me-up, she couldn't stop. Courtesy of Decima Davis

By Janice Hisle
June 03, 2026 Updated: June 03, 2026

After Decima Davis started taking kratom, a tropical plant often billed as a healthy pick-me-up, she could not stop.

Whenever she tried to pry herself loose from kratom’s grip, her torment only intensified.

“Every morning, I’d wake up drenched in sweat, already in agony, knowing relief was just two minutes away at the local gas station [that sold kratom],” Davis, 51, of Mississippi, told The Epoch Times.

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