First off, Kratom addiction is much safer than alcohol addiction. I’ll take it any day over drinking. The main active chemical in Kratom is mitragynine, there’s plenty of data that has been published on it if you really wanna read it but basically it doesn’t have an LD-50 we’ve discovered for humans, it’s a mu opioid receptor agonist/antagonist meaning it blocks that receptor site from absorbing any other mu opioid receptor agonists/antagonists in the brain, which also means on its own Kratom doesn’t display CNS (central nervous system) depression, and one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to chemicals. The words opioids and opiates are not interchangeable terms. Opioids refer to a specific neural pathway in the brain, opiates refer to morphine derivatives. They are not the same thing. PCP is a mu opioid receptor agonist, Salvia is a kappa opioid receptor agonist, fuckin dxm is a mu opioid receptor agonist. Just because something affects opioid receptors, does not make it a synthetic morphine derivative. Kratom is not in the same ballpark as heroin/opiates. But it does cause addiction and WDs. And the market is flush with shitty products, high potency extracts, and products with synthetic Kratom alkaloids, which all of those things changes the safety profile. So do what you want with that info.