quitting7oh.org is a community-compiled reference for getting off 7-OH, MGM-15, and other kratom-derived synthetics. It grew out of conversations in our Discord and subreddit. The team organized what community members learned so the next reader can find answers without searching through hundreds of Reddit posts.
Readers
The guide is written for:
- Someone trying to quit 7-OH or a kratom synthetic, looking for practical, organized information on what works
- A family member or partner trying to understand what your person is dealing with
- A clinician treating a patient on these compounds, looking for compound-specific pharmacology that isn’t in the standard addiction-medicine playbook
- Someone in our Discord or subreddit pointing a friend at the site
We wanted the resource we needed during withdrawal: calm, organized, free of marketing language and judgment. The pages need to work at 3 a.m. when sleep and focus are gone. You should be able to scan them in a hurry and return when you have more attention.
AI-assisted writing
Most of the writing on this site went through an LLM. Community experience supplied the source material. Maintainers and moderators have used and withdrawn from 7-OH and kratom synthetics, and they have spent more than a year helping others through the same process.
The team used AI to organize that material and draft pages under a public ruleset. Maintainers checked factual claims against primary sources before publication. At least one community member with direct experience read each page.
Time and process
The team spent about 40 hours writing rules for the LLM. Drafting and review took about 80 hours, with another 30 spent checking claims and links. The maintainers wrote the rules, chose the subjects, rejected weak drafts, and approved the finished pages.
The full set of instructions lives in CLAUDE.md in the public repository. It records the site’s medical framing, source requirements, language rules, and limits on what the model can claim.
Rules that shape the drafts
- The site does not rank quitting paths or present one option as the authentic choice.
- Routing copy never names Suboxone alone. Tapering with kratom leaf and cold turkey with helper medications appear alongside it. A page about one medication can stay focused on that medication. This rule paired Suboxone with SR-17018 until August 2026, when SR-17 went into Schedule I and stopped being a path a reader could take.
- Substance rules prevent authors from applying heroin and fentanyl mortality figures to 7-OH. They also bar multi-year claims about synthetics that entered the consumer market in 2023.
- The team checks off-site links before publication. Product pages must show that the named item exists and can be purchased.
- Dosing pages use the community’s lower-dose, short-taper approach for 7-OH and name where it differs from common opioid guidance.
- Clinical referrals name a task that a clinician can handle. Community questions return to peers instead of sending a reader toward an appointment that will not address the issue.
Anti-AI writing review
The team runs each draft through the stop-slop ruleset. The site keeps a local copy in docs/stop-slop, based on Hardik Pandya’s MIT-licensed project.
The review removes em dashes, throat-clearing openers, false contrasts, repeated reassurance, question-shaped headers, and other patterns that make generated writing sound mechanical. Reviewers rewrite pages when the prose sounds polished but empty.
Model limits
The rules prevent the model from:
- Inventing doses, half-lives, receptor values, or clinical figures
- Creating community quotes or naming a provider that the team has not checked
- Applying opioid mortality claims to 7-OH without evidence specific to 7-OH
- Claiming multi-year outcomes for synthetics that have not existed that long
- Ranking one quitting path above another in the site’s editorial voice
- Claiming that a path is popular without data
- Publishing an off-site link before someone verifies it
Human review and responsibility
At least one community member with direct experience reads each page before it ships. Reviewers push back when the framing misses the community’s experience or a draft smooths over a hard part. The maintainers decide what belongs on the site and take responsibility for what remains.
AI can produce errors. If you find a factual mistake, unsafe recommendation, or missing context, open an issue or pull request on GitHub or use a channel listed on Contributing & Feedback.
Readers who avoid AI-assisted work may prefer another recovery resource. The team chose this process because it made detailed, compound-specific reference pages possible with the time available.
Boundaries
- Not medical advice. Everything here is community-compiled information. It’s a starting point for your own research and a conversation with a qualified clinician, not a substitute for one.
- Not a treatment program. We don’t prescribe, monitor anyone’s taper, or run a clinic.
- Not the active community. The site is reference material. The live conversation happens in the Discord and subreddit.
- Not affiliated with any vendor, treatment facility, or pharmacy. No ads, no sponsorships, no monetization of any kind. If a page mentions a specific telehealth provider or supplement, it’s because community members have used it, not because anyone is paying us to mention it.
Continue reading
- Start Here: recovery information and next steps
- The Community: the Discord, subreddit, and current volunteer team
- Contributing & Feedback: corrections, proposed changes, and contact routes
- Where the Site Stands: the site’s position on kratom leaf, synthetics, and scheduling