This wonderful article was written for the parents of addicts, it is being shared here with permission from the author, Stephanie Sears. Here are a few things I’ve figured out along the way in dealing with addiction. These are things I wish someone had shared with me early on. Please know these …
If we lived in a sane society, we’d follow some patterns that were set out in earlier cultures where there was an initiatory period for a child. A lot of times kids start experimenting with psychedelics right around the same time that in a tribal culture they would be taken through an initiation ceremony. They …
This is a must read from the brilliant Jon Rappoport: by Jon Rappoport First, a little background. Then I’ll get to the Congress. And Obama. Severe addiction, mental dislocation, death. Millions of people are facing the devastating effects of the pharma drugs called opioids, on the streets of America—illegally trafficked. 2 MILLION OPIOID …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Fentanyl, which is 50-100 times more potent than morphine, was recently tied to the deaths of 60 people in the UK – and a growing number of deaths in Australia Efforts to combat the opioid addiction crisis in the US have been weakened by the synthetic opioid fentanyl, which a top UN drug official has …
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 …
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 …
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 …
In the states, there’s a degree of mystery surrounding the process of ibogaine. This state of affairs is hardly an accident. Most scientists at R1 schools (especially those with a research budget to lose) are uncomfortable speaking publicly about the treatment because to do so is to league oneself with the black sheep of the …
The First Count of Fentanyl Deaths in 2016: Up 540% in Three Years By JOSH KATZ SEPT. 2, 2017 The first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths in 2016 shows overdose deaths growing even faster than previously thought. Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the first governmental …
Is Ibogaine a wonder cure for a myriad of addictions? Why has seemingly no one heard of Ibogaine? Why is it not legal in the United States? The History Of Iboga Iboga was first discovered in western central Africa by the pygmies. They used it for its hallucinogenic and healing properties and spread the …