Believers claim illegal drug is cure for addictions

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Believers claim there is a cure that could help beat the worst of addictions, such as drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, even junk food. It's not available in the United States but it is legal in other countries. Its illegality isn't stopping people in Central Indiana from trying it.

You look on Tony's face and you truly believe what he is saying.


"I'm happy," he said. "I'm the happiest I've ever been."

You would never know that four months ago, his parents described him as a zombie, addicted to heroin for years.

"Everything was secondary," he said. "I'd get up and use before my morning cigarette."

When the high wore off the sweating, the shaking and the thoughts of suicide were unbearable.

"I hated myself," said Tony. "I didn't want to live."

He tried to kill himself several times and his parents shelled out tens of thousands to send him to rehab, but nothing worked. Then Tony read a scientific magazine about a drug called "Ibogaine." The drug is extracted from the root of an African plant and is a psychedelic drug. It was the hallucinogenic agents that caused the FDA to ban it in 1976, putting it in a schedule 1 category with other drugs like cocaine, and, ironically, heroin. Believers claim it ends addiction for good, though.

http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-beli...cure-for-addictions-20110926,0,5631245.column
 
This is rare: a local news station writing a neutral article about a drug. No sweeping comparisons to LSD or MDMA. And no cops proffering medical/scientific opinions. And no outraged moms demanding prosecution. Amazing.
 
Funny thing is that this stuff is legal in most other countries including the UK. I've never heard of anyone using it here though. What puts me off trying it for just the experience is the need for medical supervision, length of the trip, general body load and possible risk of death that I've read about.
 
"It was the hallucinogentic agents that caused the fda to ban it."

This has got to sound fucking ridiculous to most people, or am i missing something? I have no idea how they are able to control whether we want to take a substance and hallucinate or not? Same concept with other drugs but this in paticular sounds absolutley pathetic.

Amazing article though.
 
I clicked on this thread expecting to get mad at the article but I was surprised that it seemed fairly neutral. I'm glad psychedelics are getting more attention and respect as legitimate treatments for conditions.
 
highhooked said:
"It was the hallucinogentic agents that caused the fda to ban it."

This has got to sound fucking ridiculous to most people, or am i missing something? I have no idea how they are able to control whether we want to take a substance and hallucinate or not? Same concept with other drugs but this in paticular sounds absolutley pathetic.

Amazing article though.
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Because Stupid people abuse Psychs and dissociatives and then jump off roof tops and kill people.
 
ibogaine is amazing stuff; sent me to some strange reality. On a lighter note I heard this new amazing drug that cures heroin addiction, oddly enough it also goes by the name heroin and is reporting major success rates in trials undergoing at this very moment!
 
I'm surprised to see Ibogaine reported on in any smaller, mainstream media agency. But yeah it does work wonders. I was at a Ibogaine discussion panel at the Drug Policy Alliance Conference in NOLA 2007 (I think). There was a guy there who claimed he had been using 2 g of heroin and 200-300 mg methadone a day when he went to the Bahamas for Ibogaine treatment. He woke up the day after the treatment withdrawal free. Fucking incredible anecdote that was to hear. One of the Miami cardiologists who does the cardiac monitoring at that particular clinic also gave a presentation on Ibogaine's effects on heartbeat, advising that it only be used under medical supervision.

And it's really silly that the DEA has banned it, because it is the best hope for addicts of all types (it works for nicotine, opioids, cocaine, etc.). Claiming that it's psychedelic and should be banned on those grounds is ridiculous, from what I've been told, it's not exactly the kind of drug with any abuse potential whatsoever.
 
That's because there's no "leash". They like to keep addicts on methadone cause it's addicting and keeps them chained to the clinic.
If the country had any care for people w/a opiate problem, there'd be safe injection sites, diacetylmorphine scripts for people robbing & stealing, & ibogaine treatment centers...
 
Ibogaine is no miracle cure. It is a hallucinogen. If you can be successful with LSD/MDMA/ Ketamine psycho-therapy, you will be successful with this and vice-versa.
 
muvolution said:
Ibogaine is no miracle cure. It is a hallucinogen. If you can be successful with LSD/MDMA/ Ketamine psycho-therapy, you will be successful with this and vice-versa.
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I believe the purported mechanism of action is unique, and partially due to a non-hallucinogenic metabolite. I'm too lazy to look up the research right now, so maybe I'm remembering incorrectly. There's a 10,000-word article on it somewhere in DiTM that talks about the unique mechanism of action.
 
The FDA banned it because it is not made in a lab that big pharma can profit from, and being a single dose treatment, big pharma cant sink the hook of addiction into you, bringing them money over the long term. its ALL about money - surprise . Very similar to marijuana and the fact that big pharma can't profit from something that can be so easily grown by anyone with half a brain cell . Also, technically, Ibogaine isn't classified as a hallucinogen, it is classified as a "oneirophrenic", although there probably isn't that much of a difference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneirophrenia
 
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