Ibogaine is bark from a certain shrub in western Africa. It is credited by many people for curing substance addiction with just one or two treatments. The government will not even research it. They do not care about the cure that ibogaine has proven.

This thread is prompted by its mention at http://tinyurl.com/48j37. Below is a copy of three paragraphs-

When a drug gets a “schedule one” rating from the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it means mainstream medicine thinks it has high potential for abuse and no current medical value. The label also proclaims that use of the drug on humans is illegal in the United States. But that doesn’t stop it from being perfectly legal in other countries.

Enter ibogaine, a powerful hallucinogen that some say can help people break addictions to everything from heroin to prescription drugs to cigarettes. The drug, derived from the roots of a West African shrub, received its FDA ranking in the mid-1980s.

One pill makes you better American drug and alcohol addicts are going abroad in search of ibogaine, a purported miracle treatment that is banned in the United States.

There is a treatment house about an hour and a half outside of Vancouver that offers a Monday through Friday treatment for $1600. It is not clear if that is Canadian or US dollars. MAPS is funding a study on the results- http://www.ibogatherapyhouse.org/

"blocks glutamate-induced cell death in neuronal cultures"

http://www.ibogaine.desk.nl/lit-nmda.html

Sounds to me like they need to find/synthesize a similar compound without hallucinogenic properties. It's a very interesting drug. Thanks for posting this.

Preston Peet of DrugWar.com did an interview with someone with experience in treating addiction with ibogaine. It comes from NYC where Preston Peet lives and it list some good links at the bottom that I might as well copy here- http://www.drugwar.com/ibonyc.shtm

For more information on ibogaine, please visit the following links:

Mindvox- http://ibogaine.mindvox.com/

The Ibogaine Dossier - http://www.ibogaine.org/

Ibogaine.co.uk - http://www.ibogaine.co.uk/

The Ibogaine Story: Report on the Staten Island Project - http://www.cures-not-wars.org/ibogaine/iboga.html

Healing Transitions Institute for Addiction - http://www.ibogaine.net/

Erowid Ibogaine Vault - http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/ibogaine/ibogaine.shtml

Ibogaine: A Novel Anti-Addictive Compound A Comprehensive Literature Review - http://userpages.umbc.edu/%7Ejfreed1/Ibogaine.html

New York State Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services- Addiction Medicine: Ibogaine- http://www.oasas.state.ny.us/AdMed/meds/fyiibogaine.htm

Hemp TV: The Ibogaine Story - http://www.crrh.org/hemptv/doc_ibo.html

IBOGAINE The Drug that Can Eliminate Drug Addiction, including Heroin and Cocaine, in 48 Hours, Without Withdrawal Symptoms! - http://www.relfe.com/ibogaine.html

Isolation of Ibogaine from Tabernanthe iboga - http://www.entheogen.com/articles/pre-2004...extraction.html

Hallucinogen May Cure Drug Addiction - http://www.kron.com/Global/story.asp?s=%20%201652207

Born again with Ibogaine? - http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/ibogaine/ibogaine.htm

The Ibogaine Project - http://www.ibogaineproject.com/

Ibogaine Grievance Form Project - http://www.brugerforeningen.dk/bfny.nsf/0/...enDocument&S=UK

Ibogaine Stories - http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=8603

Id like to mention 18-MC, an ibogaine analog with no hallucinogenic properties and much the same affects on addiction. It happens to be forbidden in the US as well due to the analog act, and the refusal on the part of the federal government to allow it to be scheduled seperately from ibogaine, and presented to the medical community at large.

Secondly Id like to note that the hallucinogenic effects of ibogaine should not disqualify it from use, anywhere, where is helpful to those in need. In fact its hallucinogenic effects might well make it more useful. I surmise this from the use of LSD and MDMA in psychotherapy.