Great w/d treatment from opiates

I was a heavy user of vicodin for over 3 years (about 300mg or #30/10mg tabs norcos) and part of what kept me from stopping was the horrors of w/d's which I've tried to do on numerous occasions but kept going back to the pills b/c the w/d were too bad and lasted too long. I heard about kratom on an online forum and decided to give a try as my using was getting out of control and interfering with my finances, job, family, etc. I took my last pill on a tuesday morning, took my first 3-4 capsules of kratom that evening and continued at that same dose every 4-6 hours (each capsule is about less than 1/2 gm of the stuff) for the first couple of days and had NO WITHDRAWAL symptoms. Psychological ones, sure, some cravings and depression, but no shakes, sweats, insominia, heart palps, nausea, barfing, restless legs, etc. After day 3 I upped the dose to about 6 capsules every 12 hours and did that for 4 more days, then did about 8 capsules once/day for 2 days, then stopped and felt NO w/d's from either the kratom or vikes. To me this is like a miracle. Why are not more detox facilities and addictions specialists advocating for this? It's a natural herb that you can use short term to get off opiates that doesn't require long-term maintenance like subs or methadone? The cynic in me is that the big pharma and med establishment don't think of it as a $$ maker. If you're using H, percs, oxys, vikes, methadone, and have tried to stop but couldn't stand the w/d's, pls try this. It might save your life.