Dr. Cindy Girman: What is Kratom, and how are we educating people about the dangers of using Kratom?

Cindy Girman is the founder of a consulting firm that works with pharmaceutical companies to generate more efficient and meaningful evidence on how medicines work. She holds a Doctor of Public Health in biostatistics with an emphasis on epidemiology from the University of North Carolina (UNC) and is a fellow of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology. Cindy and her husband are collaborating with researchers at UNC on non-pharmacological transcranial alternating current stimulation as a treatment for substance use disorder, a keen interest of theirs. In episode 413 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out why Dr. Girman chose UNC Chapel Hill for her educational pursuits, how her son Alec died of kratom toxicity, what is kratom and how are we educating the public about the dangers of using it, how her research is going on non-pharmacological transcranial alternating current stimulation as a treatment for substance use disorder, how she started receiving direct communication from her son Alec after his death, what happens when we die, how we spend our time on the other side, and what is our purpose as humans living a physical life on earth. Enjoy!