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Christopher McCurdy

Christopher McCurdy

Distinguished Professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy and internationally recognized kratom researcher.

Jun 18, 2025

9:20
So tell us a bit more about your work on the pharmacokinetics, for a general audience, about why this seems to be so promising as a method for enhancing opium withdrawal and reducing the symptoms of withdrawal.
9:36
Sure.
9:39
As you mentioned, it's a pretty fascinating plant, and it seems to almost be a panacea in some ways because it not only did all those things I was mentioning, but it seems to also regulate blood glucose levels.
9:54
It has applications in wound healing.
9:56
There's many other things that we could brush on, but really want to focus primarily what our work has been on opioid use disorder treatments.
10:07
And pharmacokinetics, just to make it a simple layman's terminology, is really what our body does to a substance or a drug or something we ingest.
10:19
So how does our body handle that substance once it's once it's been ingested.

14 MINS LATER

24:39
Now, again, we don't prescribe anything on the show, but I wonder if you could elaborate a bit on these examples that you've seen.

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