No, not really. The recommendation moves from explicit to implicit.

It's good that the drugs helped you, but it's not the same thing as saying "I went to a doctor and they put me on X and it helped." When you're talking about doing drugs outside of that paradigm, we don't know how many people have been hurt rather than helped. If 9 out of 10 people are harmed, you were just the lucky one.

I'm directing my post to someone who is at least forty years old. I think they can make up their own mind.

I guess if they're aware of the risks it might be ok. But it's so seductive to believe that a substance can change all your problems. It's almost never the case, and it can do a lot of harm in the process.

To be fair, thanks to the corruption of the drug testing and approval process, we don't know that information for any drug.

Eh, I'd disagree. I relate to where you're coming from with that point, but if someone were to die on Xanax, we'd hear about it. If you die while taking Kratom, you're just a statistic. Worse is if your mental machinery is screwed up by the experience: then nobody hears and you just have to live with it.