Kratom, Focus Drinks, and Hidden Addiction (3)
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Published: 2026-06-21
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# Kratom, Focus Drinks, and Hidden Addiction (3)
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## Summary
This right here is a 2-ounce 59-millimeter bottle of Feel Free. I just purchased for a little over $11 US dollars from this gas station behind me in Nashville, Tennessee. The label on the bottle claims that it is a plant-based herbal supplement. It's meant to give you focus, energy, and a mood lift....
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This right here is a 2-ounce 59-millimeter bottle of Feel Free. I just purchased for a little over $11 US dollars from this gas station behind me in Nashville, Tennessee. The label on the bottle claims that it is a plant-based herbal supplement. It's meant to give you focus, energy, and a mood lift. That sounds quite nice, but that's not a full story, is it? What exactly is in this bottle? Let me show you something. This here is a time lock safe. You put something inside, set a timer, and you can't get the item back out until the timer runs out. It's a tool people use to break addictions and control their cravings. Why the tape? Yeah, it didn't quite work out for me. Turns out I couldn't wait 24 hours to get what was inside out, and instead watched any tutorial I could to safely open the box without breaking it. I failed. More waste than one. What could have made me so desperate that I break my own safe? That thing did cost me 50 quid. Exactly what's inside this drink. I absolutely wish I knew sooner how Cradle was going to impact my life. We're concerned about the safety of a popular supplement known as Cradle. We have this Cradle all over. The FDA recently published an advisory about the dangers of using Cradle. Though it's difficult to admit, I was addicted to this drug, Cratome, for over five years. And it wasn't that bad at first. In fact, I would have been the first to tell you I was using it responsibly. I could never get addicted. No. In fact, there were many positives that I'd found in the beginning that I will talk about later in this video. But then... Oh. Yeah. Then it took complete control of my life. From the constant anxiety of not having enough of it to the nausea and blurry spotted vision from having too much of it, Cratome slowly consumed me until I was only ever in one of two states, either on Cratome or wishing I was. The main ingredient inside this bottle is Cratome, sometimes pronounced crater. Cratome is a tropical tree native to Southeast Asia, whose leaves have long been used for their mind-altering effects. For centuries, people living in Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia have chewed the leaves or brood them into a tea for the stimulant and medicinal benefits. In smaller doses, Cratome was traditionally used by laborers and farmers for its mild stimulant effect, similar to how coffee is used in the west. In fact, that's one of the main angles that made it feel so acceptable to me. There's nothing wrong with coffee, right? It's kind of like an eastern version of coffee. And if you think about it, coffee and Cratome actually share the same plant family. So what's so different? Yeah, the more you use it, the more you'll cling to any excuse you can to keep using it. In higher doses though, interestingly enough, Cratome isn't as much of a stimulant as a sedative, where if you take larger amounts of Cratome, instead of giving you a lot of energy, it actually makes you feel more lethargic, with pain-killing benefits, similar to that of some prescription opioids, like codine and morphine, which there very much is a reason for. The thing is, no one plans on getting addicted, but even with your best intentions. It's a losing battle when your vice is actively messing with the processes in your brain, and is chemically addictive. I bet it's the case that most of you wish you could spend just a little bit less time on your phones every day, and yet, here you are. You didn't expect to be this addicted to your phone, did you? And scrolling is only messing with your dopamine receptors. Imagine that with little extra opiate receptors turned in. Let me not give Zuckerberg any more ideas. I was officially diagnosed with ADHD earlier this year, video coming eventually, but I knew long before my brain wasn't functioning like everyone else's. When
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