DEA, Hydrocodone, and Kratom

DEA Sends Customers to Kratom by tightening prescription restrictions on hydrocodone (Vicodin).

The DEA (U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency) inadvertently did kratom vendors a big favor when they announced that on October 6, 2014, the opioid painkiller hydrocodone was being moved up to Schedule 2 from Schedule 3 of the Controlled Substances Act.

Their latest action was in belated response to America’s growing addiction epidemic.

Worse than addiction, opioid narcotics, such as hydrocodone, were responsible for 16, 917 deaths in 2011.

Since 2007, hydrocodone plus acetaminophen has been the #1 prescribed drug in the United States. Now, many of those 135,000 prescriptions will be forced …read more