Ibogaine
Ibogaine

Author: Geoffrey A. Cordell

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing

Published: 2001-09-28

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780120532063

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This book presents the Proceedings from the First International Conference on Ibogaines, held in November of 1999 at New York University's School of Medicine. In essence, it presents significant new data on neurobiological, clinical, sociocultural, and policy aspects of ibogaine. Ibogaine is a natural product derived from the bark of the root of the African shrub Tabernathe iboga. It has a history of use as a medicinal and ceremonial agent in West Central Africa, and has been alleged to be effective as a treatment for substance dependence. The study of Ibogaine may shed light on the neurobiology of addiction and lead to the development of new medication for the treatment of addiction. Currently, there is lack of formal approval for the use of ibogaine, and the demand of the addicts themselves has led to a distinctive unofficial network which has provided ibogaine treatment in non-medical settings. If critical safety concerns can be adequately addressed, ibogaine may provide an inexpensive and practical treatment approach, well adapted to environments where resources are severely limited and there is pressing need for clinical services for heroin addicts, such as Eastern Europe. This is a paperback edition of Volume 56 of The Alkaloids (ISBN: 0-12-469556-6) edited by Geoffrey A. Cordell, University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A.

Iboga
Iboga

Author: Daniel Brett

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06-06

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781838446215

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Iboga is an ultra-powerful psychoactive root native to western Equatorial Africa. To African Bwitists and shamans, iboga is a divine sacrament and the cornerstone of their spiritual path. To growing numbers of westerners discovering meaning and healing through psychedelic exploration, iboga is a profoundly competent psychotherapist. For those addicted to harmful substances, iboga, and it's alkaloid - ibogaine, represents a potent means of interrupting addictions, particularly to opioid based compounds. However, like iboga itself, this book is not solely for the benefit of addicts. Iboga occupies a unique and traditionally mutually exclusive intersection point where the world of hard drug users meets that of spiritual seekers. Iboga, The Root of All Healing was written to address this intersection point. It shines a long-overdue light upon iboga's true power, and ultimately, argues that responsible use of iboga could play a key role in assisting our species to navigate the socio-cultural minefield in which we have become trapped.

Ibogaine Explained
Ibogaine Explained

Author: Peter Frank

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2013-05-14

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9781484087374

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Ibogaine is the world's most powerful psychedelic. It has helped thousands of people overcome addiction to pain medicines, heroin, methadone, crack/cocaine, methamphetamine, and alcohol without withdrawal symptoms or cravings. It has also helped many people break free from depression, PTSD, and legal addictions. This book will tell you everything you need to know about ibogaine: its history, the scientific research, how a treatment works, and how to make the most of your treatment in the weeks and months that follow.

Breaking Open the Head
Breaking Open the Head

Author: Daniel Pinchbeck

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2003-08-12

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0767907434

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A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the visionary compounds found in plants are the spiritual sacraments of tribal cultures around the world. From the iboga of the Bwiti in Gabon, to the Mazatecs of Mexico, these plants are sacred because they awaken the mind to other levels of awareness--to a holographic vision of the universe. Breaking Open the Head is a passionate, multilayered, and sometimes rashly personal inquiry into this deep division. On one level, Daniel Pinchbeck tells the story of the encounters between the modern consciousness of the West and these sacramental substances, including such thinkers as Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Walter Benjamin, and Terence McKenna, and a new underground of present-day ethnobotanists, chemists, psychonauts, and philosophers. It is also a scrupulous recording of the author's wide-ranging investigation with these outlaw compounds, including a thirty-hour tribal initiation in West Africa; an all-night encounter with the master shamans of the South American rain forest; and a report from a psychedelic utopia in the Black Rock Desert that is the Burning Man Festival. Breaking Open the Head is brave participatory journalism at its best, a vivid account of psychic and intellectual experiences that opened doors in the wall of Western rationalism and completed Daniel Pinchbeck's personal transformation from a jaded Manhattan journalist to shamanic initiate and grateful citizen of the cosmos.

Rehab Doesn't Work - Ibogaine Does
Rehab Doesn't Work - Ibogaine Does

Author: Willers T. Darenvogt

Publisher:

Published: 2013-04

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780615826424

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Rehab doesn't work. Ibogaine does. The broken promise of traditional rehab fails millions of alcoholics and addicts every year. Sadly, most of them don't even know that there is a natural medicine called ibogaine that ends addiction - without withdrawal - and then eliminates the cravings for drink or drugs that guarantee relapse. One ibogaine treatment accomplishes overnight what no rehab has ever been able to do. It's not easy, however. In America, the land of The War on Drugs, ibogaine is illegal. To obtain it and be treated successfully, alcoholics and addicts must embark on a quest that can be intimidating, difficult and dangerous. It can also be the most rewarding of their lives. This book explains everything you need to know about ibogaine and how to find it in a confusing and often unscrupulous market. It will help you understand the medicine and how to find good providers, while avoiding the scammers preying on people desperate to get clean or sober. It will prepare you for every aspect of your ibogaine treatment and the promise of freedom from addiction. Rehab Doesn't Work - Ibogaine Does will equip you to end your addiction to alcohol, painkillers, heroin, crystal meth, methadone and nicotine. It's time to get your life back.

Iboga
Iboga

Author: Vincent Ravalec

Publisher: Park Street Press

Published: 2007-10-12

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781594771767

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Shows how African shamans have used ibogaine for hundreds of years to communicate with ancestral spirits • Includes an interview with shaman Mallendi, initiation-master of the sacred root • Shows that the iboga plant, and its derivative ibogaine, is an anti-addictive agent, especially for heroin • Reveals how ibogaine has been suppressed by the DEA, the FDA, and Christian ministries Iboga, spiritual ally of African shamans since antiquity, yields ibogaine, a powerful psychotropic substance. It is used mainly in Gabon and Cameroon in a secret, initiatory tradition called bwiti-nganza, in which physical and psychological illnesses can be rooted out and cured. Intense psychological conditioning that includes the rites of confession, contacting and honoring one’s ancestors, and construction of an in-depth psychological inventory are all part of the initiate’s encounter with this sacred root. Like many visionary and initiatory plants, iboga is a key that gives access to other modes of being and consciousness. Despite its suppression by the FDA since the 1960s, and more recently by the DEA, researchers have shown that ibogaine provides a powerful adjunct to psychology due to its miraculous ability to break addictions--most notably to heroin. To the followers of the Bwiti religion, ibogaine is the indispensable means by which humans can truly communicate with the deepest reaches of their soul and with the spirits of their ancestors. This book details the traditions and techniques of iboga’s use by African shamans and the essential role it occupies in that community in order both to preserve this knowledge and to show how ibogaine may have an important role to play in our modern world.

Ibogaine - Freedom From Addiction Naturally
Ibogaine - Freedom From Addiction Naturally

Author: Shé D'Montford

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-10-21

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1326055550

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This plant derived substance not only alleviates almost all, if not all the withdrawals but also helps the addict understand the nature of the addiction. Does this mean that this ancient sacred plant substance is the long sort after addiction vaccine? Can such a thing exist? Yes, it most surely does!

Manifesting Minds
Manifesting Minds

Author: Rick Doblin, Ph.D.

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Published: 2014-01-07

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1583947272

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Featuring essays and interviews with Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Albert Hofmann, Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin, Daniel Pinchbeck, Tim Robbins, Arne Naess, and electronic musician Simon Posford, as well as groundbreaking research and personal accounts, this one-of-a-kind anthology is a "best of" collection of articles and essays published by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Topics include the healing use of marijuana and psychedelics--including MDMA, ibogaine, LSD, and ayahuasca--for PTSD, anxiety, depression, and drug addiction, as well as positive effects of these substances in the realm of the arts, family, spirituality, ecology, and technology. Among many other thought-provoking and mind-opening pieces are the following: • "On Leary and Drugs at the End," by Carol Rosen and Vicki Marshall • "Psychedelic Rites of Passage," by Ram Dass • "To Be Read at the Funeral," by Albert Hofmann • "Another Green World: Psychedelics and Ecology," by Daniel Pinchbeck • "Psychedelics and Species Connectedness," by Stanley Krippner, PhD • "Huxley on Drugs and Creativity," by Aldous Huxley • "Psychedelics and the Deep Ecology Movement: A Conversation with Arne Naess," by Mark A. Schroll, PhD, and David Rothenberg • "Psychedelic Sensibility," by Tom Robbins • "Electronic Music and Psychedelics: An Interview with Simon Posford of Shpongle," by David Jay Brown • "How Psychedelics Informed My Sex Life and Sex Work," by Annie Sprinkle • "Consideration of Ayahuasca for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder," by Jessica Nielson, PhD, and Julie Megler, MSN, NP-BC • "Psychedelics and Extreme Sports," by James Oroc • "Youth and Entheogens: A Modern Rite of Passage?," by Andrei Foldes with Amba, Eric Johnson, et al. • "Diary of an MDMA Subject," by Anonymous • "Dimethyltryptamine: Possible Endogenous Ligand of the Sigma-1 Receptor?," by Adam L. Halberstadt • "Lessons from Psychedelic Therapy," by Richard Yensen, PhD • "Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychoneuroimmunology, and Psychedelics," by Ana Maqueda • "Talking with Ann and Sasha Shulgin about the Existence of God and the Pleasures of Sex and Drugs," by Jon Hanna and Silvia Thyssen

Practical Skills and Clinical Management of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction
Practical Skills and Clinical Management of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

Author: Samuel Obembe

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2012-08-06

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 0123985188

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This insightful book is a synoptic presentation of Causes and Treatment of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction. It gives an insight into Alcoholism and Drug Addiction genetic and/or acquired etiologies through researched studies that draw the conclusion that Addiction is a disease/ medical condition. It features the treatment from detox followed by psychotherapy with evidence based practices and supported by Aftercare programs to maintain sobriety and recovery. An insight into Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Psychotherapy with evidence based practices Aftercare programs Classification and effects of psychoactive drugs Drug screening procedures Motivational Interviewing Causes and Treatment of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Life and clinical experiences Culture and Drug Addiction Levels of Care in Structured Programs