The article follows the journey of Rebecca, known as Becks, a 27-year-old woman who experiments on herself with the untested synthetic drug SR-17018 in a desperate attempt to overcome her addiction to kratom and find a path to sobriety, revealing the risks and challenges faced by those struggling with substance use in an era marked by ultrapotent lab-made drugs. #AddictionRecovery #MentalHealth #DrugAwareness #US #CN #IT
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Her Self-Experiment with Drug Detox Almost Broke Her
Matt Richtel spent a year following Becks's experimental recovery efforts, as part of a series of stories looking at the rise of ultrapotent lab-made drugs.