Ibogaine & Plant Medicine

Ibogaine Article Goes Mainstream on Wired

A Detox Drug Promises Miracles—If It Doesn’t Kill You First   The heavy hallucinogen ibogaine is illegal in the US, but some addicts are flocking to Mexican clinics for it, hoping to be cured. A physician investigates.  I’m not sure I’ve ever met an opioid user who didn’t want to quit, and as an emergency room …

7 Life-Saving Safety Tips for Addiction Treatment with Iboga & Ibogaine

Great article by Elizabeth Bast: We are in the midst of a global opiate addiction and overdose epidemic. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in its 2017 World Drug Report, “Opioids were the most harmful drug type and accounted for 70 per cent of the negative health impact associated with …

Why Is the U.S. Disregarding Plants Like Iboga and Kratom in the Fight Against Overdose and Addiction?

With overdose death rates more than doubling in the U.S. since 2000, we need to be examining every possible avenue to save lives and reduce the harms of drug misuse and addiction. Two medicinal plants, kratom and iboga, have been used for hundreds and thousands of years in other parts of the world and show …

The Health Risks of Ibogaine Treatment and What Every Ibogaine Provider Should Ask You For

There haven’t been many ibogaine-related deaths reported in the last five years, but the ones we do know about all seem to have some elusive factor. The 2014 death of a woman in a Costa Rican ibogaine clinic was actually from a heart attack, but the autopsy report was inconclusive as to whether there was …

My experience with Ibogaine as the addiction interrupter

This is a great post from a Reddit forum on Ibogaine: A little back story.. I’m 4 weeks post ibogaine treatment for a severe 7 year opiate addiction. I had a back surgery, chest surgery and 4 knee surgeries which kept me in the pain pill, maintenance meds, heroin hell cycle, for way too long. …

Could this drug help millions of American addicts?

Heroin addicts and alcoholics have said ibogaine helped them kick addiction, so why is it illegal in the United States? May 19, 2014 6:45PM ET by Sanya Dosani @saninamillion , Adam May @adammaytv & Caroline Cooper When Paul O’Heron arrived in Cancun from Missouri in early April, the 29-year-old drug addict hadn’t been clean for …

Iboga, An Ancient Treasure of the Earth

by Elizabeth Bast   Iboga is a plant medicine held sacred by the indigenous people of Central West Africa and has been taken in ceremonies since ancient times for spiritual initiation and healing. Like Ayahuasca, San Pedro (Huachuma), Peyote, and Psilocybin mushrooms, it is a sacred visionary plant medicine, yet iboga is an utterly unique spirit. More recently, iboga and its active …

Ibogaine: Can it Cure Addiction Without the Hallucinogenic Trip?

by Keegan Hamilton November 17, 2010 Ron Price needs his milkshake. It’s 10 o’clock on a Monday morning and the bald-headed, barrel-chested former bodybuilder is shuffling around the kitchen of a posh rehab clinic in Tijuana, wearing slippers and a blue Gold’s Gym T-shirt. Price had been employed as a stockbroker in New Mexico, until …

Are Psychedelic Drugs the Next Medical Breakthrough?

Well known best selling author, Tim Ferriss, interviews Martin Polanco and Dan Engle for an interesting and frank discussion on Ibogaine, Iboga, and other psychedelic agents such as 5-MeO-DMT.  Dr. Polanco is the founder and program director of Crossroads Treatment Center, located in the Bahamas.  Dr. Engle is a psychiatrist and neurologist.   Listen to …