We’re really focusing on public awareness at this point, i’ve actually been in contact with a few physicians, especially addiction medicine physicians, who are treating patients with morphine addiction from consuming poppy seed tea. They are not heroin users, but they actually become addicted to the morphine from the tea.

Madeleine Swortwood

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They are marketing this for pain relief as a food product but they contain potentially lethal levels of a Schedule II drug.

Madeleine Swortwood

health

I’ve actually been in contact with a few physicians, especially addiction medicine physicians, who are treating patients with morphine addiction from consuming poppy seed tea. They are not heroin users, but they actually become addicted to the morphine from the tea.

Madeleine Swortwood

health

It’s sort of a gray area right now because it is a food product, so you would think that it would fall under the FDA, but it also contains a Schedule II drug, so you think it might fall under the jurisdiction of the DEA, they are marketing this for pain relief as a food product but they contain potentially lethal levels of a Schedule II drug.

Madeleine Swortwood

health