Ibogaine List Archives – 2002-12

From: Ustanova Iboga <Iboga@guest.arnes.si>
Subject: [ibogaine] best wishes
Date: December 31, 2002 at 8:06:10 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hi everybody,

we are in 2003 already, and americans are a year behind…

Ha ha ha ha!!!

Anyway, I wish everyone reading this an IBOgainised 2003!

;-))

Marko

From: Gamma <gammalyte9000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 31, 2002 at 6:41:55 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

— HSLotsof@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 12/30/02 2:29:19 PM, gammalyte9000@yahoo.com writes:

There are a few of us who still want you (Dana) to try Ibo, then you can
speak
from a first person perspective on the Ibogaine experience. (hint)

First person…yes. but, not from an opioid dependent perspective.

Howard

No, we wouldn’t want Dana all smacked back… LOL

-gamma (dh)

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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] >ibogaine-unsubscribe@mindvox.com<
Date: December 31, 2002 at 8:40:42 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Mike

Send an email to “ibogaine-unsubscribe@mindvox.com”
(without the “”). That means “TO:” needs to have
“ibogaine-unsubscribe@mindvox.com” in it when you
send, not the subject as you just did and sent to
ibogaine@ibogaine@mindvox.com, this will not work –
leave the entire rest of the email blank, nothing in
the subject, nothing in the BCC or CC, nothing in the
text – only fill in the “TO” with
“ibogaine-unsubscribe@mindvox.com” and send.
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Hi,
Please unsybscribe me, I appreciate your efforts but
I dont want upto 20-30
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eachother a day  cloging up my
mail box
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Mike

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From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] outburst- a new years tale
Date: December 31, 2002 at 5:36:31 AM EST
To: <drugwar@mindvox.com>
Cc: “CRRH” <restore@crrh.org>, <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hi all,
Happy New Year wishes to all of you and yours today. In light of the day
and the fact that many places of business are closed today, perhaps leaving
some of your with a bit of time on your hands, I send you this link to
Chapter 2 of my book Something in the Way. Feel free to pass this around, if
you know anyone who might enjoy it.
Some New Years start out better, more peaceful if not quite as
interesting, than others.

http://www.drugwar.com/psitwoutburst.shtm

Outburst- a New Years Tale
chapter 2 of Something in the Way
by Preston Peet
posted at DrugWar.com Dec. 31, 2002
(photo)
Rotterdam at New Year

In some twisted way it makes perfect sense to him. The only way to insure
that he’ll go through with killing himself by morning is to piss off those
people most likely to really hurt or kill him if he gets them angry enough.

It’s New Years Eve in Rotterdam, 1991. Thomas and his girl had planned an
evening at a party with some of her co-workers, but Thomas is banned from
the bar where she works. Her co-workers have no trouble spotting the signs
of addiction, nor realizing it has been him raiding the office safe. He
really doesn’t want to deal with them, so he stands Jennifer up, finding her
gone and the attic apartment they share dark when he finally arrives. She’s
taken all of their CD’s and tapes with her, and he thinks for a second that
she’s done it to play them at the party, but he can’t kid himself. Four
hours late, closer to five, she knows what he’s been doing. Everyone in
Rotterdam knows by now. He looks like shit, loosing weight, accumulating an
air of desperation about him. Even his dealers have been telling him to slow
down. Fat chance.
snip-
read chapter at above URL.

Peace,
Preston Peet
ptpeet@nyc.rr.com
Editor http://www.drugwar.com
Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
“Prohibition creates an irresistibly lucrative
opportunity for entrepreneurs willing to operate
in illicit business. It is the policy
of idealists who cannot appreciate that the use
of drugs often reflects other sets of human
ideals: human perfectibility, the yearning
for a perfect moment, the peace that comes
from oblivion.” Richard Davenport-Hines

From: “M.KEANE” <michaelkeane@compuserve.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] >ibogaine-unsubscribe@mindvox.com<
Date: December 31, 2002 at 2:37:48 AM EST
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Hi,
Please unsybscribe me, I appreciate your efforts but I dont want upto 20-30
e-mails of other peoples e-mails to-and-from eachother a day  cloging up my
mail box
Thanks
Mike

From: MARC <marc420emery@shaw.ca>
Subject: [ibogaine] What I have found regarding ibogaine & crack cocaine, more
Date: December 30, 2002 at 11:26:04 PM EST
To: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@myrealbox.com>
Cc: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

The woman I sent to see Sara Glatt thinks Sara does a great job! Sara has
always been helpful to me.

We do ibo sessions for people largely for drug dependencies, but have the
ibo available who have self-destructive repetitious behavious like
over-eating, anger outbursts. We haven’t added spiritual awareness or any
other ayahuasca type experiences yet to our program, since we do not charge
for our service. Spiritual journeys are maybe in the future. I want to
improve the quality of life for those who recognize a need to change their
lives but who cannot find our kind of assistance.

I have three full time workers at Iboga House, a screener & introductory
facillatator (gets your paperwork, health scans, all the routine, etc
explained to prospective patients) and two facillitators who work at the
Iboga House with the patients. I administer the iboga and supervise the next
12 – 24 hours after administration, plus I determine the regimen to be given
to the patient. We have two pianos, 2 guitars, art supplies, exercise
equipment, a pastoral setting, lovely oceanside walks, a concerned, loving,
not-yet jaded staff, a beautiful house where it all happens.

We provide a therapy that could be IndraDK extract, ethnogarden extract, or
ibogaine hydrochloride, depending on what I think is best. It usually is two
treatments, 7 – 30 days apart, but small daily doses for crack cocaine abuse
has been included in the therapy.

Marc Emery
Iboga Therapy House

—– Original Message —–
From: “Joshua Tinnin” <krinklyfig@myrealbox.com>
To: <marc420emery@shaw.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 7:30 PM
Subject: OFFLIST – Re: [ibogaine] What I have found regarding ibogaine &
crack cocaine

Marc,

I was wondering about something. Do you do ibo sessions for people who are
not opiate addicts? What I mean is, do you do sessions for people who have
come to terms with a different addiction, and are not currently using (but
maybe were within the last year or so), and feel strongly, after much
introspection, that it would be something that is worth doing? I
understand
your own personal reasons for wanting to facilitate ibo therapy, so was
just
curious what sort of pre-conditions someone might have to have at your
House. If you do, then what is the estimated cost? Also, who are the
practitioners, and do you do HCL, or iboga, or some combination? (Maybe
you’ve already answered some of this on the list, but have been busy, and
I
get a lot of email.) And, finally, have you ever talked much with Sara
Glatt? If so, would she be a practitioner you’d recommend? A few other
people I trust have said so, so thought it would be worth getting your
thoughts.

Thanks, and hope your new year brings much success with all that you’re
doing, ibo and otherwise.

– jt

—– Original Message —–
From: “MARC” <marc420emery@shaw.ca>
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 6:53 PM
Subject: [ibogaine] What I have found regarding ibogaine & crack cocaine

At Iboga Therapy House, we have found most patients have this response
that
Booker noted:

I took ibogaine I would say to myself, this is so awful, I will never
do
this again and I will never recommend it to anyone else.  Then the
afterglow
kicks in and I love Iboga and everyone else on the planet and I’m sold.
Then
that wears off and I want to get high on opiates again so I take ibo again
and I’m saying I can’t believe I did this again. In most cases, at least
from what I’ve read, Ibo trips AINT fun.  So you get to trade the lengthy
withdrawals of opiate dependency for the hell of a few hours in ibogaland.
And hopefully learn SOMETHING that keeps leading you into a more positive
direction.<<<

Opiate dependent people are easier to help off of opiates with ibogaine
than
crack cocaine addicts. People who want to be treated for heroin are
terrified of withdrawl and hate the lifestyle, so they are highly
motivated
to quit via ibogaine, and we have a good round of success with opiated
addicted people. Their lives still need revamping and reinvention from the
ground up and thats a challenge, but they have been very receptive to
ibogaine therapy.

The crack cocaine people we have treated have taught me something, they
don’t really want to quit, they simply can’t afford to indulge in their
vice
any longer and come to us because the finances of addiction have ruined
them. They would still like to smoke rock all day IF they had the money,
so
now that they have spent every cent, borrowed, stolen, and burned all
their
bridges, now their family is totally freaked, their dirty secret is out,
pressure is on from all quarters (family, friends, employer, partners,
etc)
to quit or else. No one comes to me and says, “I have this addiction to
cocaine and I want to quit before I ruin my finances and alienate everyone
around me,” they  ONLY come to me when its “I’m totally broke, my family
is
completely freaked, I’ve got to quit…” (Because I can’t afford to be
hooked).

The fact is, as soon as they get money, ibogaine or not, they want crack.
My
original supposition, that is, if drugs were legal, crack would be cheap
so
it would NOT create these financial crises in the addicts is correct.
Better
they have the drug, get through this phase without the financial disaster
attached, and decide, when they are not pressured by financial & criminal
liabilities, to stop using (at all or as much). Prohibition is most of
their
problem.

I found that if cocaine people are kept away from cocaine AND money, they
don’t have a problem. There is no physical withdrawl, its all mental. And
they don’t think much about cocaine if they don’t have any money and are
no
where near a place to get cocaine. But give them money and put ’em near a
source, kiss the money goodbye, even if they just went weeks without it
almost effortlessly.

I have decided to change our regimen for crack cocaine users to one large
dose at the outset of treatment (so the ibogaine freaks them into being
serious) and then 20 – 30 days of 20 mg. of ibogaine hydrochloride daily.
We
shall see.

Also, I have this plant extract called Kratom I want to experiment on
crystal meth addicts (they actually don’t want to quit either, its the
finances) and for bringing methadone users down to lower levels.

I have also found that giving ibogaine to patients with MS (multiple
schlerosis) will make the MS act up shortly after the ibogaine, although I
would say they need to be advised of this but should not deter iboga
therapy. The MS flare-up brought on by ibogaine lasts about 2 – 3 days.

Marc Emery
Iboga Therapy House

From: MARC <marc420emery@shaw.ca>
Subject: [ibogaine] What I have found regarding ibogaine & crack cocaine
Date: December 30, 2002 at 9:53:14 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

At Iboga Therapy House, we have found most patients have this response that Booker noted:

>>>I took ibogaine I would say to myself, this is so awful, I will never do this again and I will never recommend it to anyone else.  Then the afterglow kicks in and I love Iboga and everyone else on the planet and I’m sold. Then that wears off and I want to get high on opiates again so I take ibo again and I’m saying I can’t believe I did this again. In most cases, at least from what I’ve read, Ibo trips AINT fun.  So you get to trade the lengthy withdrawals of opiate dependency for the hell of a few hours in ibogaland.  And hopefully learn SOMETHING that keeps leading you into a more positive direction.<<<

Opiate dependent people are easier to help off of opiates with ibogaine than crack cocaine addicts. People who want to be treated for heroin are terrified of withdrawl and hate the lifestyle, so they are highly motivated to quit via ibogaine, and we have a good round of success with opiated addicted people. Their lives still need revamping and reinvention from the ground up and thats a challenge, but they have been very receptive to ibogaine therapy.

The crack cocaine people we have treated have taught me something, they don’t really want to quit, they simply can’t afford to indulge in their vice any longer and come to us because the finances of addiction have ruined them. They would still like to smoke rock all day IF they had the money, so now that they have spent every cent, borrowed, stolen, and burned all their bridges, now their family is totally freaked, their dirty secret is out, pressure is on from all quarters (family, friends, employer, partners, etc) to quit or else. No one comes to me and says, “I have this addiction to cocaine and I want to quit before I ruin my finances and alienate everyone around me,” they  ONLY come to me when its “I’m totally broke, my family is completely freaked, I’ve got to quit…” (Because I can’t afford to be hooked).

The fact is, as soon as they get money, ibogaine or not, they want crack. My original supposition, that is, if drugs were legal, crack would be cheap so it would NOT create these financial crises in the addicts is correct. Better they have the drug, get through this phase without the financial disaster attached, and decide, when they are not pressured by financial & criminal liabilities, to stop using (at all or as much). Prohibition is most of their problem.

I found that if cocaine people are kept away from cocaine AND money, they don’t have a problem. There is no physical withdrawl, its all mental. And they don’t think much about cocaine if they don’t have any money and are no where near a place to get cocaine. But give them money and put ’em near a source, kiss the money goodbye, even if they just went weeks without it almost effortlessly.

I have decided to change our regimen for crack cocaine users to one large dose at the outset of treatment (so the ibogaine freaks them into being serious) and then 20 – 30 days of 20 mg. of ibogaine hydrochloride daily. We shall see.

Also, I have this plant extract called Kratom I want to experiment on crystal meth addicts (they actually don’t want to quit either, its the finances) and for bringing methadone users down to lower levels.

I have also found that giving ibogaine to patients with MS (multiple schlerosis) will make the MS act up shortly after the ibogaine, although I would say they need to be advised of this but should not deter iboga therapy. The MS flare-up brought on by ibogaine lasts about 2 – 3 days.

Marc Emery
Iboga Therapy House

—- Original Message —–
From: booker w
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?

 

>From: Dana Beal

>Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?

>Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:18:47 -0500

>

>>Yep I’m the third person who’s got to echo this sentiment,

>>specifically to Dana. Selling ibogaine as a “cure”will make your

>>voice as invalid as a parent who tries to sell their kid on “one

>>hit of marijuana automatically sends you down the road to

>>addiction.” My opinion – either try it, or quit touting it the way

>>you do… (please?)

>>

>>Sandy Watson

>>

>

>Okay. But it’s not a maintenance drug, either.

>

>Chemotherapy sounds too scary, even though it’s a lot closer to what

>Ibogaine does.

>

>It’s a “cure” in the common English sense of something you use to

>get RID of the addiction–something you don’t have to keep taking

>everyday for 9 mos. like trexan–just whenever you feel a relapse

>coming on. Which is fairly infrequently. And that’s the point.

>

>Common usage does convey that maintenance drugs can be dispensed

>with when the course of treatment is over. Those are called

>”treatments.” They keep you alive, but they don’t get rid of the

>HIV, or the addiction, or whatever.

>

>Dana/cnw
Well, the biggest problem now comes in about whether addiction is even a medical issue or “disease” anyway.  Ibogaine is just something a person who, as Patrick says, wants to get “unsprung, ” might try.  It may or may not do that.  It will give you a “restart” button as far as opiate tolerance goes and that’s one of the neatest things about it.  I was so happy I could get high on a little bit of codeine instead of a bunch of morphine, after my first ibo trip, so I guess ibogaine COULD be abused in that sense…
However, every time I took ibogaine I would say to myself, this is so awful, I will never do this again and I will never recommend it to anyone else.  Then the afterglow kicks in and I love Iboga and everyone else on the planet and I’m sold. Then that wears off and I want to get high on opiates again so I take ibo again and I’m saying I can’t believe I did this again. In most cases, at least from what I’ve read, Ibo trips AINT fun.  So you get to trade the lengthy withdrawals of opiate dependency for the hell of a few hours in ibogaland.  And hopefully learn SOMETHING that keeps leading you into a more positive direction.
If addiction isn’t a disease, it doesn’t need a cure.  If it is a very strange chronic condition ( I think of it like an obsessive/compulsive disorder)  who knows what will work.  Every single approach whether it’s 12 steps, treatment, rehab, ibogaine, or nothing at all, some people get “unsprung” and some don’t.  Why that is is a total mystery to me anyway.  But having the option to try ibogaine I think would be of super value and I support that totally.  I also support giving heroin addicts heroin like they do in some countries and let people find their own way without all the hassle that “prohibition” brings on.    Raising kids in loving homes where we learn to manage our feelings in a positive way, I think would be the biggest deterent of all for all addictions.  JMO.  Thanks for the interesting discussion anyway.  Boy do I feel like getting high today!!
Sandy again.

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From: Bill Ross <ross@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 30, 2002 at 8:02:10 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I can’t understand why someone who is such a
big promoter of ibogaine won’t take it.

Mash might be another case of this, but I think it’s wrong to
expect someone to take ibo. The observed results are what should
determine whether it’s worth promoting.

Bill Ross

From: “booker w” <swbooker@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 30, 2002 at 7:48:45 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

 

>From: Dana Beal

>Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?

>Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:18:47 -0500

>

>>Yep I’m the third person who’s got to echo this sentiment,

>>specifically to Dana. Selling ibogaine as a “cure”will make your

>>voice as invalid as a parent who tries to sell their kid on “one

>>hit of marijuana automatically sends you down the road to

>>addiction.” My opinion – either try it, or quit touting it the way

>>you do… (please?)

>>

>>Sandy Watson

>>

>

>Okay. But it’s not a maintenance drug, either.

>

>Chemotherapy sounds too scary, even though it’s a lot closer to what

>Ibogaine does.

>

>It’s a “cure” in the common English sense of something you use to

>get RID of the addiction–something you don’t have to keep taking

>everyday for 9 mos. like trexan–just whenever you feel a relapse

>coming on. Which is fairly infrequently. And that’s the point.

>

>Common usage does convey that maintenance drugs can be dispensed

>with when the course of treatment is over. Those are called

>”treatments.” They keep you alive, but they don’t get rid of the

>HIV, or the addiction, or whatever.

>

>Dana/cnw
Well, the biggest problem now comes in about whether addiction is even a medical issue or “disease” anyway.  Ibogaine is just something a person who, as Patrick says, wants to get “unsprung, ” might try.  It may or may not do that.  It will give you a “restart” button as far as opiate tolerance goes and that’s one of the neatest things about it.  I was so happy I could get high on a little bit of codeine instead of a bunch of morphine, after my first ibo trip, so I guess ibogaine COULD be abused in that sense…
However, every time I took ibogaine I would say to myself, this is so awful, I will never do this again and I will never recommend it to anyone else.  Then the afterglow kicks in and I love Iboga and everyone else on the planet and I’m sold. Then that wears off and I want to get high on opiates again so I take ibo again and I’m saying I can’t believe I did this again. In most cases, at least from what I’ve read, Ibo trips AINT fun.  So you get to trade the lengthy withdrawals of opiate dependency for the hell of a few hours in ibogaland.  And hopefully learn SOMETHING that keeps leading you into a more positive direction.
If addiction isn’t a disease, it doesn’t need a cure.  If it is a very strange chronic condition ( I think of it like an obsessive/compulsive disorder)  who knows what will work.  Every single approach whether it’s 12 steps, treatment, rehab, ibogaine, or nothing at all, some people get “unsprung” and some don’t.  Why that is is a total mystery to me anyway.  But having the option to try ibogaine I think would be of super value and I support that totally.  I also support giving heroin addicts heroin like they do in some countries and let people find their own way without all the hassle that “prohibition” brings on.    Raising kids in loving homes where we learn to manage our feelings in a positive way, I think would be the biggest deterent of all for all addictions.  JMO.  Thanks for the interesting discussion anyway.  Boy do I feel like getting high today!!
Sandy again.

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From: Dana Beal <dana@cures-not-wars.org>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 30, 2002 at 7:18:47 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Yep I’m the third person who’s got to echo this sentiment,
specifically to Dana.  Selling ibogaine as a “cure”will make your
voice as invalid as a parent who tries to sell their kid on “one hit
of marijuana automatically sends you down the road to addiction.”
My opinion – either try it, or quit touting it the way you do…
(please?)

Sandy Watson

Okay. But it’s not a maintenance drug, either.

Chemotherapy sounds too scary, even though it’s a lot closer to what
Ibogaine does.

It’s a “cure” in the common English sense of something you use to get
RID of the addiction–something you don’t have to keep taking
everyday for 9 mos. like trexan–just whenever you feel a relapse
coming on. Which is fairly infrequently. And that’s the point.

Common usage does convey that maintenance drugs can be dispensed with
when the course of treatment is over. Those are called “treatments.”
They keep you alive, but they don’t get rid of the HIV, or the
addiction, or whatever.

Dana/cnw

From: “landon merritt” <glmkeoki@msn.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 30, 2002 at 7:16:02 PM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

To whom it may concern,
Over the past 12 hours or so I have been sent 10 e-mails from you. I don’t know who you are and with all due respect, don’t want to know. I don’t know how you got my address or why you feel I need your info. So, delete my address and have a happy new year.
—– Original Message —–
From: HSLotsof@aol.com
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 7:10 PM
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
In a message dated 12/30/02 2:29:19 PM, gammalyte9000@yahoo.com writes:

>There are a few of us who still want you (Dana) to try Ibo, then you can
>speak
>from a first person perspective on the Ibogaine experience. (hint)

First person…yes. but, not from an opioid dependent perspective.

Howard

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From: HSLotsof@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 30, 2002 at 7:09:27 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

In a message dated 12/30/02 2:29:19 PM, gammalyte9000@yahoo.com writes:

There are a few of us who still want you (Dana) to try Ibo, then you can
speak
from a first person perspective on the Ibogaine experience. (hint)

First person…yes. but, not from an opioid dependent perspective.

Howard

From: crownofthorns@hushmail.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 30, 2002 at 6:59:54 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

lol, Dana sorry but when patrick took the microphone away from you and made a joke about that at san francisco, he did say what a lot of us think. you’ve written millions of words it seems like about ibogaine, what it’s like to do ibogaine, you support ibogaine against addiction, but you’ve never been a addict or taken ibogaine. I don’t expect you to go shoot heroin for 10 years or whatnot bro, you have patrick for all that, but I can’t understand why someone who is such a big promoter of ibogaine won’t take it. what does that say?

Peace out,
Curtis

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:37:20 -0800 booker w <swbooker@hotmail.com> wrote:
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My opinion -&nbsp;either try it, or quit touting it the way you
do… (please?)</P></DIV>
<P>Sandy Watson</P>
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>&gt;From: Gamma <GAMMALYTE9000@YAHOO.COM>
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
<DIV></DIV>&gt;To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment
Works… or does it?
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:28:43 -0800 (PST)
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;— preston peet <PTPEET@NYC.RR.COM>wrote:
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt;You
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; keep using the word “cure” Dana, which it doesn’t
and hasn’t ever struck my
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; admittedly non-personally experienced self
as.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;I feel compelled to chime in on this, – Touting Ibogaine
as a ‘cure’ is not
<DIV></DIV>&gt;correct, having done it myself twice. I am not cured
of my desire to do
<DIV></DIV>&gt;opiates, but Ibogaine did give me a “clean slate”
from which to “begin again”
<DIV></DIV>&gt;with. Ibogaine is a treatment, something for those
of us who have exhuasted
<DIV></DIV>&gt;every other means of kicking the habit, for those
of us who need that extra
<DIV></DIV>&gt;special bit of psychedelic encouragement, enlightenment,
or asskicking, or all
<DIV></DIV>&gt;of the above.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;There are a few of us who still want you (Dana) to
try Ibo, then you can speak
<DIV></DIV>&gt;from a first person perspective on the Ibogaine experience.
(hint)
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;-DH
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; —– Original Message —–
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; From: Dana Beal
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 1:10 PM
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit:
Treatment Works… or does
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; it?
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; And yes Alison, heroin/opiates do leave the
body fairly quickly, in that
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; I could use heroin tonight, (but won’t of course)
and not have a urine test
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; turn up positive within 72 hours, max.
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; That doesn’t mean that my body wouldn’t miss
it of course. It’s even,
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; in my mind, that quick loss of opiates from
my body that made me feel sick
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; from having no dope.
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; Peace,
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; Preston
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt;

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From: “booker w” <swbooker@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Ibogaine treatment experiences
Date: December 30, 2002 at 6:42:09 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hi Eliana.  My ibo treatment experiences are posted at ibogaine.co.uk under “experiences”  if you’d like to read some more.  Best wishes,  Sandy Watson

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>Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>Subject: [ibogaine] Ibogaine treatment experiences

>Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:35:05 EST

>

>Hi, I read the JAMA article (and accompanying anecdotes) with GREAT interest.

> I would love to hear from anyone who has had a treatment experience with

>Ibogaine (successful or otherwise, positive or not) as I am seriously

>considering this. Especially anyone who had daily methadone dosing prior to

>their ibogaine treatment. thanks SO MUCH. Sincerely, many blessings, Eliana

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Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 30, 2002 at 6:37:20 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Yep I’m the third person who’s got to echo this sentiment, specifically to Dana.  Selling ibogaine as a “cure”will make your voice as invalid as a parent who tries to sell their kid on “one hit of marijuana automatically sends you down the road to addiction.”   My opinion – either try it, or quit touting it the way you do… (please?)
Sandy Watson

>From: Gamma

>Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?

>Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:28:43 -0800 (PST)

>

>— preston peet wrote:

> >You

> > keep using the word “cure” Dana, which it doesn’t and hasn’t ever struck my

> > admittedly non-personally experienced self as.

>

>I feel compelled to chime in on this, – Touting Ibogaine as a ‘cure’ is not

>correct, having done it myself twice. I am not cured of my desire to do

>opiates, but Ibogaine did give me a “clean slate” from which to “begin again”

>with. Ibogaine is a treatment, something for those of us who have exhuasted

>every other means of kicking the habit, for those of us who need that extra

>special bit of psychedelic encouragement, enlightenment, or asskicking, or all

>of the above.

>

>There are a few of us who still want you (Dana) to try Ibo, then you can speak

>from a first person perspective on the Ibogaine experience. (hint)

>

>-DH

>

> > —– Original Message —–

> > From: Dana Beal

> > To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

> > Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 1:10 PM

> > Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does

> > it?

> >

> >

> > And yes Alison, heroin/opiates do leave the body fairly quickly, in that

> > I could use heroin tonight, (but won’t of course) and not have a urine test

> > turn up positive within 72 hours, max.

> > That doesn’t mean that my body wouldn’t miss it of course. It’s even,

> > in my mind, that quick loss of opiates from my body that made me feel sick

> > from having no dope.

> > Peace,

> > Preston

> >

> >

> >

> > But don’t you think many of the statements in the article are obsolete or

> > just wrong in light of the existence of ibogaine? Cocaine for instance– I’ve

> > heard of coke users taking just 20 mg of ibo a day for 16 days as the best

> > way to transition off stimulants without the Big Bang of the typical opiate

> > detox.

> >

> >

> > When do you think the crowd around ethan and peele will get around to

> > processing the ibogaine information?

> >

> >

> > It’s good for the legalization movement, you know.

> >

> >

> > The existence of a medical treatment/cure for addictions (incl. legal

> > addictions).

> >

> >

> > Dana/cnw

> >

>

>

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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle
Date: December 30, 2002 at 5:57:51 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Ibogaine isn’t a very strong
“hallucinogen” it’s
equivalent to no more than roughly 300-500mcg of
LSD.  If the visions are
distressing, then just open your eyes, they will
recede.

Ibogaine isn’t strong enough to FORCE you to
confront anything, you can
avoid it.  On 3-5mg+ of LSD you really, REALLY do
not have that option.
Whether you decide you want it or not at that point,
you’re going.

Ummmm, Patrick that is not fair. While I agree that
ibogaine is not as psychadelic as LSD you are
comparing normal ibogaine doses with super-normal LSD
doses – not regular LSD doses. Maybe you should do
40-50mg I.P. or 100mg/KG orally – what is that about
10gm or so of HCL for you orally??? which are also
more in-line with ritual dosages of ibogaine. Then
maybe you will find ibogaine to be “strong”… They
don’t use the term “crack the skull” for nothing (lol)

Brett

On the flipside, LSD ain’t gonna do nothin’ ’bout
your habit.

| Thanks for talk and your time, for me you made it
much
| eaisier to understand difference between ultra
rapid
| and other detox and what ibogaine feel like, but
you
| confuse me with 12 step and if you like ibogaine
or
| not.

I like ibogaine, the 12-steps are something that
works out for some
people, and does damage to many more who are
subjected to this bullshit as
the “only answer,” to drug dependence, and confuse
their failure to get in
tune with this cult, as having anything whatsoever
to do with stepping out
of drug dependence.

What that means: if you actually WANT to get off
drugs, and the 12-steps
don’t work out for you, it does not mean you’re
damned, not ready, or
hopeless; it just means maybe you should find
something else to do.

Patrick

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From: “M.KEANE” <michaelkeane@compuserve.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] List Commands
Date: December 30, 2002 at 5:44:30 PM EST
To: “INTERNET:ibogaine@mindvox.com” <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hello Mindvox peoples,

I am a Musickian,artist,poet,magickian,writer and utter despot headonist
who got stuck with a 5 gram a day heroin habit 11 years ago-stopped taking
heroin 7 years ago but ended up with a 110ml a day i.v. methadone habit,
stopped sticking needles in myself when the veins ran out 3 years ago but
am still on aural 110mls a day- I really wanna get off this shit, have
tried 5 times,but the withdrawls scare the shit out of me cause they last
SOOOO long,
I want to try IBOGAINE but cant find anywhere in the uk that will supply me
with it,
PLEASE can ANYBODY HELP ME FIND AN OUTLET FOR IBOGAINE????

Please all at Mindvox- check out my website,( url below), I am a genius and
very talented but this nasty stuff  methadone is killing my soul , I am SO
alone and isolated that I havent even had sex for 8 years !!!!! And Im a
horny taurean too !!! 🙂
Ive gotta get off this stuff!!!

best wishes and regards to all at mindvox for the new year
lots of love & strength to you all
Mike Keane
URL http://www.ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/michaelkeane/
IF THIS DOSENT WORK DO A SEARCH FOR “GaiaMusick” and you should find my
site, I run my own record label and have released over 7 LP’s

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Subject: [ibogaine] >ibogaine-unsubscribe@mindvox.com<
Date: December 30, 2002 at 4:45:43 PM EST
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From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle
Date: December 30, 2002 at 4:14:57 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

On [Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 05:52:01PM -0800], [Xiang Lee Chen] wrote:

| what I have read on mindvox answers some questions in
| parts but it’s not a sensibile whole. You are very
| very smart and write extremely well but it is like you
| take pages and re arrange them in no right order. I
| cannot follow, I think this is intentional but I don’t
| understand mindvox at all except art, not followable
| information

I’m just incoherent.

| My questions please.
|
| At Seattle when asked about the 12 steps you gave a
| nice reply and said that upward of 50% of addicted
| persons who take ibogaine used the 12 steps. In this
| issue of heroin times you are very negative about 12
| steps. I know you do not use them but you gave very
| nice reply at talk, then wrote a article which
| completely invalidates them. I don’t understand.

What’s in “this issue” of Heroin Times, is sumthin’ I wrote ’bout 2 years
ago; he is simply recycling my material.  A lot of that particular space
in time, is just me working out my shit and venting, to sum it up, “HA!
Fuck all of you stupid fucking pieces of shit who ripped me off, handed me
lead weights while I was drowning and attempted to inflict psychological
damages on me while I was in an extremely vulnerable state.  Who’s still
standing is me, and who has gone down in fucking flames are 95% of the
weak-willed idiots who ever got in my face with their bullshit.”

In short, it’s an emotional response that represents my feelings about
being subjected to “drug treatment” and the comedy routine known as rehab.
But that was a while ago, and it’s kinda like, okay, the sun rose in the
east today, and the 12 steps still suck, so what else is new.

The 12 steps are sumthin’ to do — other than drugs.  They’re extremely
old eastern concepts for dismantling ego, rewritten and dumbed-down for
drug dependent individuals who are acclimated to western culture.
Somewhere along the way, all of that turned into the Cult of Eternal
Powerlessness where you can sit and spin, complain about shit for all
eternity, and shine up the altar you’ve built to your idealized former
self.

An organized alternative to the 12-steps, which many people on this list
seem to find useful is SMART.  I’ve never done it personally, but reading
through their spin control, I haven’t found much I disagree with.

Uhm, I dunno their URL offhand, Randy does I’m sure.

| In JAMA article you are quoted as saying that on
| ibogaine you “went to hell and got killed 1000 times”
| which is same as you said at talk when you did
| ibogaines to detox from drugs, but at your talk you
| gave very dark experiences but it was very funny not
| like you would not do ibogaine again, you said you
| will do ibogaine again at talk. You also said ibogaine
| very mild, not near as strong as LSD.

Yeah I did, it wasn’t much fun, but it certainly didn’t deter me from
doing ibogaine again.  Ibogaine isn’t a very strong “hallucinogen” it’s
equivalent to no more than roughly 300-500mcg of LSD.  If the visions are
distressing, then just open your eyes, they will recede.

This is both good and bad.  What it amounts to is walking into the lobby
where a movie is playing, you can go sit in the movie, or if you don’t
like it, you can wander back out and land right on, “fuck this, it didn’t
work, I knew it wouldn’t, nothing ever does, where’s my dealer at…”
Ibogaine isn’t strong enough to FORCE you to confront anything, you can
avoid it.  On 3-5mg+ of LSD you really, REALLY do not have that option.
Whether you decide you want it or not at that point, you’re going.

On the flipside, LSD ain’t gonna do nothin’ ’bout your habit.

| Thanks for talk and your time, for me you made it much
| eaisier to understand difference between ultra rapid
| and other detox and what ibogaine feel like, but you
| confuse me with 12 step and if you like ibogaine or
| not.

I like ibogaine, the 12-steps are something that works out for some
people, and does damage to many more who are subjected to this bullshit as
the “only answer,” to drug dependence, and confuse their failure to get in
tune with this cult, as having anything whatsoever to do with stepping out
of drug dependence.

What that means: if you actually WANT to get off drugs, and the 12-steps
don’t work out for you, it does not mean you’re damned, not ready, or
hopeless; it just means maybe you should find something else to do.

Patrick

From: “Randy Hencken” <randyhencken@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Ibogaine treatment experiences
Date: December 30, 2002 at 4:24:01 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hi Eliana,

I encourage you to give ibo a try, it was the best thing that happened to me.  You can read my about experience at http://ibogaine-therapy.net/testimonial3.html  There are also several other experiences on that web site.

Randy

From: Eaquinet@aol.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: [ibogaine] Ibogaine treatment experiences
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:35:05 EST

Hi, I read the JAMA article (and accompanying anecdotes) with GREAT interest.
I would love to hear from anyone who has had a treatment experience with
Ibogaine (successful or otherwise, positive or not) as I am seriously
considering this.  Especially anyone who had daily methadone  dosing prior to
their ibogaine treatment.  thanks SO MUCH.  Sincerely, many blessings, Eliana

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From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] List Commands
Date: December 30, 2002 at 2:59:31 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

To all the people who have just landed here: welcome, God bless, peace be
with you, etcetera.  We are scheduled to Storm the Reality Studio —
checking watch — Any Minute Now!

This is not MindVox, this is the ibogaine list.  When Vox relights, the
list will be accessible from within the interface, or you can continue
using it exactly as you are right now — from whatever mail client or web
mail service you make use of.  The main difference between the two, is
that the Vox interface offers a much greater range of commands, options,
features, bugs, pretty graphics, threading based on name, date, topic,
whatever, and filters to nonexist people you never want to hear from
again (including spam and script-kiddie noise).

If you want a general list of options and features, send to:

ibogaine-help@mindvox.com

To get OFF this list:

ibogaine-unsubscribe@mindvox.com

To write a message to everybody on this list, send email to:
ibogaine@mindvox.com  If you need to ask me something which only I can
answer — then mahn are you in trouble; I meant to say, you can send me
email, but it would prolly be a better idea to just toss it into the list.

As of this moment pretty much everybody who has ever dosed drug dependent
human beings with ibogaine is reading this list.  A large variety of
people who have gotten unsprung using ibogaine, at more or less every
treatment provider on the planet, are also here.  Ask away.  Somebody will
have insights to offer you.

A complete list of all the commands exists in help, which, to repeat:

ibogaine-help@mindvox.com

Patrick

From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Ibogaine treatment experiences
Date: December 30, 2002 at 2:31:30 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Eliana,

Welcome to the board. Yes I had (my first) ibogaine
treatment in ’99, done it a number of times since and
am VERY happy. I strongly advise you to plan on more
than once, the 2nd will be different since you will
not be addicted to an opiate. Makes you feel GREAT!!!!
though it could take a while with meth to get right,
or a 2nd treatment, some time… but no real
withdrawal/pain, most cravings are gone.

Where were you planning on getting treatment? FYI,
here are some sources of ibo, BE CAREFUL AND FOLLOW
ADVICT TO THE LETTER if you take it yourself.

Indra@indra.dk – indra.dk has a 5X Tabernathe Iboga
extract
Enthnogarden.com sells a 16X T. Iboga extract,
ibogaine HCL as well as root
Marko Iboga@guest.arnes.si sells ibogaine HCL.

No, they will not ship to the USA. If you get ibo, get
more than you think you will need, you will need it…

Good luck
Brett

— Eaquinet@aol.com wrote:
Hi, I read the JAMA article (and accompanying
anecdotes) with GREAT interest.
I would love to hear from anyone who has had a
treatment experience with
Ibogaine (successful or otherwise, positive or not)
as I am seriously
considering this.  Especially anyone who had daily
methadone  dosing prior to
their ibogaine treatment.  thanks SO MUCH.
Sincerely, many blessings, Eliana

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From: Gamma <gammalyte9000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 30, 2002 at 2:28:43 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

— preston peet <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
You
keep using the word “cure” Dana, which it doesn’t and hasn’t ever struck my
admittedly non-personally experienced self as.

I feel compelled to chime in on this, – Touting Ibogaine as a ‘cure’ is not
correct, having done it myself twice. I am not cured of my desire to do
opiates, but Ibogaine did give me a “clean slate” from which to “begin again”
with. Ibogaine is a treatment, something for those of us who have exhuasted
every other means of kicking the habit, for those of us who need that extra
special bit of psychedelic encouragement, enlightenment, or asskicking, or all
of the above.

There are a few of us who still want you (Dana) to try Ibo, then you can speak
from a first person perspective on the Ibogaine experience. (hint)

-DH

—– Original Message —–
From: Dana Beal
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does
it?

And yes Alison, heroin/opiates do leave the body fairly quickly, in that
I could use heroin tonight, (but won’t of course) and not have a urine test
turn up positive within 72 hours, max.
That doesn’t mean that my body wouldn’t miss it of course. It’s even,
in my mind, that quick loss of opiates from my body that made me feel sick
from having no dope.
Peace,
Preston

But don’t you think many of the statements in the article are obsolete or
just wrong in light of the existence of ibogaine? Cocaine for instance– I’ve
heard of coke users taking just 20 mg of ibo a day for 16 days as the best
way to transition off stimulants without the Big Bang of the typical opiate
detox.

When do you think the crowd around ethan and peele will get around to
processing the ibogaine information?

It’s good for the legalization movement, you know.

The existence of a medical treatment/cure for addictions (incl. legal
addictions).

Dana/cnw

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From: Gamma <gammalyte9000@yahoo.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] Re: [IBOGAINE] Ibogaine September 2002 molacule of the month
Date: December 30, 2002 at 2:17:27 PM EST
To: ibogaine@lists.calyx.nl
Cc: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/ibogaine/ibogaine.htm

Brett,

I’ll comment on the article later but, the correct url is

<http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/ibogaine/ibogainej.htm>

they both are correct URLs, but the second one has very cool java applets
showing Ibogaine and MC3 molecules in 3d – you can click and drag on them to
see different perspectives – once they load.

-dh

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From: Eaquinet@aol.com
Subject: [ibogaine] Ibogaine treatment experiences
Date: December 29, 2002 at 1:35:05 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hi, I read the JAMA article (and accompanying anecdotes) with GREAT interest.  I would love to hear from anyone who has had a treatment experience with Ibogaine (successful or otherwise, positive or not) as I am seriously considering this.  Especially anyone who had daily methadone  dosing prior to their ibogaine treatment.  thanks SO MUCH.  Sincerely, many blessings, Eliana
From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] Ibogaine September 2002 molacule of the month
Date: December 30, 2002 at 12:45:23 PM EST
To: ibogaine@ibogaine.org, ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Did I miss this being posted???

I disagree that ibogaine is a one shot deal. From what
I have seen those advocating it as such are usually
not people who have done ibogaine.

Brett

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/ibogaine/ibogaine.htm

There is not much in the plant world that people have
not sniffed, snorted, smoked, rubbed in, injected or
attempted to get inside their bodies in other ways in
the hope of eliciting someone kind of magical
response. The well-known plants that gave a positive
result in the primitive tests – the coca plant,
poppies, marijuana, tobacco, betel trees, coffee beans
– have since grown infamous leaving the air heavy with
their tragic scent in so many places.

If plants are our downfall, then they might also be
our salvation. An African shrub – Tabernanthe iboga
(right) – related to the coffee plant, offers some
kind of hope for those who are addicted to alkaloid
charms. Iboga has, like countless other herbal
products, been used in traditional ceremonies and
medicine for hundreds, if not thousands of years. In
particular, in tropical West Africa it is a well-known
hallucinogen used in male rites of passage but also as
a tool by hunter to increase awareness and allow them
to remain very still for prolonged periods. The
physiologically active compound is an indole alkaloid
called ibogaine*. Surprisingly though, ibogaine is not
itself addictive and even more intriguing is that it
seems to have anti-addictive qualities. Take this drug
and it cures addiction to another.

The main claim made by advocates of ibogaine for
treating drug addiction is that one dose is generally
enough. With ibogaine, there is no need for weeks and
weeks of regular methadone to stave off the chilling
withdrawal symptoms of heroin, nor the increasing
possibility of addiction to the treatment itself
emerging. The fear of the detoxification process is
claimed by drug rehabilitation centres to be the major
obstacle to most addicts beating their habit. One dose
– or at the most intermittent doses for two years –
can it is claimed remove the destructive addiction of
several hard drugs – cocaine and heroin, for instance
– but even alcohol and nicotine. It is especially
effective in those who actually want to give up.

Ibogaine – click for 3D structure

Howard Lotsof (below) is the man who holds the patents
on using ibogaine to treat cocaine dependence, opiate
addiction and multiple drug addiction disorders. He
has championed its use in treating drug addiction for
thirty years having experimented with it as a heroin
addict himself in the 1960s. Basically, he and friends
looking for a new high tried the drug and discovered
after a rather prolonged hallucinogenic experience
that their craving for heroin had simply vanished – or
at least that’s what he reports. Lotsof began years
later – having succumbed to heroin again and having
followed a full detoxification treatment – that there
might be money to be made in this heroin cure.

The product he hopes to market goes by the rather
obvious name Endabuse and is causing a stink in the US
law courts. The Federal Drug Administration and
National Institute for Drug Addiction will soon be
locked in battle with a neurologist studying the drug
and Lotsof’s company NDA International.

NDA International convinced several researchers to
take a close look at ibogaine’s effects on opiates
several years ago. One of the scientists Stanley
Glick, at Albany Medical College found that in lab
rats treated with ibogaine before a morphine
injection, the release of the neurotransmitter
dopamine was partially blocked. (Dopamine is thought
to be responsible for reinforcing the pleasurable
effects of drugs of abuse.) Glick also discovered that
following ibogaine injection, rats with free access to
morphine cut down on their intake and had less
withdrawal symptoms.

In 1992, he published a review of the research into
ibogaine. These promising results, led, in 1993, to
the FDA establishing a phase I trial of the drug
headed by University of Florida neuroscientist Deborah
Mash. However, when patient in the trial died of an
overdose in 1994, the FDA called an immediate halt to
further research. Ibogaine remains a restricted
compound in the US.

Recently, the political machinations surrounding the
drug hit the news again when legal proceedings were
scheduled in Miami involving Mash and Lotsof. Mash
continues to research ibogaine as an anti-addiction
treatment at a centre in the Caribbean at which,
allegedly, professionals with a drug problem can drop
in, pay their $12000, and be cured of their addiction.

Lotsof, as well as having various complaints about the
cancelling of the Phase I trials, claims that Mash, in
studying the drug is infringing his patent. Mash,
however, wants the patents cancelled, citing Lotsof’s
lack of a scientific background against her standing
as a senior neurologist. Mash insists that once she
has reasonable evidence of ibogaine being effective
and safe in treatment she will launch a US trial. She
has also filed her own patents on ibogaine
derivatives. Both Mash and Lotsof are determined
people – a date is yet to be set for the legal battle
but it will undoubtedly be vicious.

No definitive mode of action of ibogaine’s supposed
anti-addiction properties has yet been described. The
molecular basis for addiction itself is not understood
so this is unsurprising. However, ibogaine is known to
be antagonistic to N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)
receptors. These receptors are thought to mediate some
of the acute effects of drugs of abuse but by blocking
them one may block the development of compulsive drug
seek and taking. Ibogaine also seems to have activity
in many neurotransmitter systems including serotonin
uptake sites and sigma sites. It might be that its
complexity of action has something to do with its
activity. To confuse the picture still further there
is also a putative long-lasting metabolite,
O-desmethylibogaine which has not been investigated
closely yet. However, according to Piotr Popik a
psychopharmacologist at the Institute of Pharmacology,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, working mainly on
the mode of action of “anti-addictive” drugs, The NMDA
antagonistic actions are enough to explain most of the
‘anti-addictive’ effects of ibogaine.’

Not all scientists are convinced of the healing
properties of those suffering addiction. Among
ibogaine’s side-effects are ataxia (loss of muscle
coordination), nausea, vomiting and raised blood
pressure. The compound also causes tremors,
hallucinations and apprehension. Moreover, there is
still the death to consider in the cancelled FDA
trials.

Could ibogaine stop the addiction
to deadly drugs such as heroin?

Popik is somewhat sceptical of ibogaine’s potential.
Popik co-authored the review with Glick. He points out
that ibogaine is not in fact unique, ‘All of the known
antagonists of the NMDA receptor produce
‘anti-addictive’ effects in animal models of
compulsive drug seeking and taking.’ A simple test he
and his colleagues carried out demonstrated that
ibogaine is indeed an NMDA antagonist but the fact is
there are countless other less harmful compounds with
this same activity. Ibogaine produces a lot of
neuropathological changes in the cerebellum, Popik
adds. ‘Briefly: I would not give it to my mother!’ he
told Catalyst. Meanwhile, Glick’s team at Albany
Medical College has developed a synthetic iboga
alkaloid 18-methoxycoronaridine (18-MC). Their animal
tests show that 18-MC has similar activity to ibogaine
but may not have ibogaine’s hallucinogenic properties.

The differences between 18-MC and Ibogaine.
[Click image for 3D structure of 18-MC]
(taken from
http://www.amc.edu/academic/Research/cnnResearcher.cfm?ID=130)

The extraction of ibogaine from the roots and bark of
Tabernanthe were first described in JACS in 1958 and
its synthesis again in JACS in 1966, these classic
recipes have quickly found their way out of the
student locker and into Internet folklore, just as
have methods for making fireworks and LSD. Aside from
growing interest sparked by the Internet, ibogaine
does not seem to have made its way on to the streets.
Drug-pushers are perhaps wary of selling something
that could cut their markets for other drugs in one
fell swoop.

Something is also keeping ibogaine from the medical
mainstream. Could it be that the authorities believe
the existence an anti-addictive would actually
increase drug abuse as users would experiment keenly,
knowing that a quick and easy escape route was
available to them. With the UK government revealing
results of research that show heroin use is spreading
out from the inner cities and into the shires, and the
Home Office predicting an epidemic of addiction, it is
perhaps time to take a closer look at the weapons we
use to wage the war on drugs.

References
* For those who cannot resist a bit of nomenclature
here is ibogaine:
7-Ethyl-6,2,7,8,9,10,12,13-octahydro-2-methoxy-6,9-methano
5H-pyrido(1′,2′:1,2- azepine(4,5-)indole. It also goes
by the name of NIH 10567 and Endabuse.

The first report of the putative anti-addictive
properties: Dzoljic ED, Kaplan CD, Dzoljic MR, Effects
of Ibogaine on Naloxone-Precipitated Withdrawal
Syndrome in Chronic Morphine- Dependent Rats, Archive
of International Pharmacodynamics, 1988, 294, 64-70.

The Ibogaine Dossier – many links from here about
Ibogaine.

Further reading: P. Popik and P. Skolnick,
‘Pharmacology of Ibogaine and Ibogaine-Related
Alkaloids’, The Alkaloids, Academic Press, 1998, pp.
197-231.

This article originally appeared in The Alchemist on
ChemWeb.com

David Bradley is a freelance science writer based in
Cambridge, England, he can be reached through his
website: www.sciencebase.com.

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From: Gamma <gammalyte9000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] PKD Spectrum Introduction to Zero Point Energy
Date: December 29, 2002 at 11:45:46 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

The possibility that electromagnetic zero-point energy may be involved in the
production of inertial and gravitational forces opens the possibility that
both inertia and gravitation might someday be controlled and manipulated.
This could have a profound impact on propulsion and space travel.

not to mention the price of oil and the price of tea in China.

-gamma

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From: “Joshua Tinnin” <krinklyfig@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 29, 2002 at 5:33:01 PM EST
To: “Ibogaine” <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

—– Original Message —–
From: “Dana Beal” <dana@cures-not-wars.org>

It’s good for the legalization movement, you know.
The existence of a medical treatment/cure for addictions (incl.
legal addictions).<

that’s why I mentioned “current accepted treatments” in my prior
note about Shavelson’s “Hooked” book Dana.
;-))
Peace,
Preston

I think you will agree this needs more than a mention, though. Look
at the number of statements in the article that have to be altered if
the ibogaine info is factored in. Not to mention having a different
conclusion.

Anyone care to try it?
–>>

I thought about that, too, which is why I sent it to this list. Actually,
what I was hoping is that someone here who can speak with authority about
ibogaine, such as Dana, Marc, Brent, Patrick … many more, would write
to this Dr. Fitzpatrick and let him know about it. I can’t find an email
address, but there is a form to send email about this article here:
http://www.spiked-online.com/forms/LetterToTheEditor2.asp?sendto=10&section=health&id=00000006DB92

– jt

From: “Joshua Tinnin” <krinklyfig@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 29, 2002 at 5:27:44 PM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I didn’t write this. Dr Michael Fitzpatrick did. I am not sure what his
email address is, but the article originally appeared here –
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DB92.htm

– jt

—– Original Message —–
From: “Alison Senepart” <aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz>

After reading your mail and digesting it all I can’t say I agree with it
all.  Are you quoting from books and literature or have you been addicted to
heroin, cocaine or any other substance.  Sounds to me as if you are quoting
from passages or literature that you have read but I could be wrong.  How
can you state that heroin leaves the body rapidly etc.  If thats the case
perhaps you could explain spending days in bed sweating, vomiting, turbulent
bowels and in general feeling like shite for days. My experience is that it
takes weeks to clean up not hours.   The reason most people resort to
Methadone is to deal with these symptoms, especially after years of using
drugs and repeatedly going cold turkey which gets worse and harder as you
get older and more tolerarant.  If you have a job and need to get up and be
there or have children to look after methadone at least lets you achieve
some sort of capability.  You said that addiction is not a sickness but a
choice as I understand your mail which is probably quite true in the
beginning when you think you can control your life and what you do but has
no bearing further down the track when you find yourself totally emmeshed in
an endless cycle that you want to get out of but don’t know how or are
scared , hurting and totally screwed up.  Your mail seemed to state that all
the answers are there to be had but I’m not sure thats true for everyone.  I
thought your writing was very arrogant and self-righteous but perhaps I
picked it up incorrectly and am a bit prickly.  Would like to hear your
reply.   Allison

From: “Joshua Tinnin” <krinklyfig@myrealbox.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] test – ignore
Date: December 29, 2002 at 10:45:14 PM EST
To: “Ibogaine” <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Just testing. Delete me now. Do it! Stop reading this!

From: Gamma <gammalyte9000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] changes
Date: December 29, 2002 at 11:32:46 PM EST
To: Iboga@guest.arnes.si
Cc: digital@phantom.com

— Ustanova Iboga <Iboga@guest.arnes.si> wrote:
Hi all,

there are some changes at
http://www.geocities.com/ibopictures/price.html

Marko

Hey Marko,

are those pictures of you in the initiation ceremony? very cool.

We love the microscopic piks of the crystals!

Dr. Kroupa mentioned to me that you are starting a religion based around Iboga,
and he asked me about creating art for it. I’m interested, lets talk more about
it, eh?

I am playing with the idea of the NYC conference, but its pretty expensive for
me, as I live in Hawaii now. Not sure if I can make it.

Hope all is well in Eastern Europe…

-Dave Hunter

p.s. I think we met at the 1999 NYC conference?

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From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 30, 2002 at 10:30:28 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>

Not sure why you think it’s obsolete Dana, unless the lack of attention to ibogaine is the reason. But are there any studies that point to a better long-term success rate for ibogaine than any other drug “treatment” modality? Or is ibogaine simply one more method for some (key word here) people to change their perspective? You keep using the word “cure” Dana, which it doesn’t and hasn’t ever struck my admittedly non-personally experienced self as. Anecdotally, I’ve yet to hear of many real success stories, if “getting off drugs” is the criteria for success. Even getting off dope doesn’t always seem to be the effect, at least, no more than with any other treatment I’ve yet heard of. It does seem to help some people find new paths they couldn’t, or wouldn’t, find before trying it, but even repeated use (over 16 days straight? Yikes. Sound interesting, but 16 days straight? Wow.) doesn’t seem to do everyone the same way either Dana.
I’m copying this to a few people in case the ibogaine list is also down.
Peace,
Preston
—– Original Message —–
From: Dana Beal
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?

And yes Alison, heroin/opiates do leave the body fairly quickly, in that I could use heroin tonight, (but won’t of course) and not have a urine test turn up positive within 72 hours, max.
That doesn’t mean that my body wouldn’t miss it of course. It’s even, in my mind, that quick loss of opiates from my body that made me feel sick from having no dope.
Peace,
Preston

But don’t you think many of the statements in the article are obsolete or just wrong in light of the existence of ibogaine? Cocaine for instance– I’ve heard of coke users taking just 20 mg of ibo a day for 16 days as the best way to transition off stimulants without the Big Bang of the typical opiate detox.

When do you think the crowd around ethan and peele will get around to processing the ibogaine information?

It’s good for the legalization movement, you know.

The existence of a medical treatment/cure for addictions (incl. legal addictions).

Dana/cnw

From: Dana Beal <dana@cures-not-wars.org>
Subject: [ibogaine] does some one on this list speak Catalan?
Date: December 29, 2002 at 2:42:56 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

From: “farid” <farid@no-log.org>
To: “Dana Iboga – Beal” <dana@cures-not-wars.org>
Subject: Fw: [Icn-drugs] Conference Iboga(ine) le 6 decembre 2002
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 13:22:18 +0100
X-Priority: 3
Status:
Hi Dana,
Well, find below one contact for Iboga in Spain, may you can touch him directly ?
All the best,
FARId
PS : Please I changed my datas. Please cancel everything with gfarid@free.fr, or dalilaa@free.fr,
NOW it is FARId GHEHIOUECHE farid@no-log.org 06 148 156 79 ; 5, rue de Tombouctou 75018 PARIS
—– Original Message —–
From: A.U.M.M.O.
To: farid
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Icn-drugs] Conference Iboga(ine) le 6 decembre 2002

JosŽ Carbonell
Coordinador de  A.U.M.M.O.
aummo@hotmail.com
Tle. +34 615681422  Fax. +34 938601416
C/ Joan Camps i Gir—, 3
CP. 08400- Granollers  ( Valles Oriental )
Barcelona- Espa–a

From: Dana Beal <dana@cures-not-wars.org>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 28, 2002 at 5:46:12 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>It’s good for the legalization movement, you know.
The existence of a medical treatment/cure for addictions (incl. legal addictions).<

that’s why I mentioned “current accepted treatments” in my prior note about Shavelson’s “Hooked” book Dana.
;-))
Peace,
Preston

I think you will agree this needs more than a mention, though. Look at the number of statements in the article that have to be altered if the ibogaine info is factored in. Not to mention having a different conclusion.

Anyone care to try it?

Dana/cnw

From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 28, 2002 at 1:47:19 PM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>It’s good for the legalization movement, you know.
The existence of a medical treatment/cure for addictions (incl. legal addictions).<

that’s why I mentioned “current accepted treatments” in my prior note about Shavelson’s “Hooked” book Dana.
;-))
Peace,
Preston
—– Original Message —–
From: Dana Beal
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?

And yes Alison, heroin/opiates do leave the body fairly quickly, in that I could use heroin tonight, (but won’t of course) and not have a urine test turn up positive within 72 hours, max.
That doesn’t mean that my body wouldn’t miss it of course. It’s even, in my mind, that quick loss of opiates from my body that made me feel sick from having no dope.
Peace,
Preston

But don’t you think many of the statements in the article are obsolete or just wrong in light of the existence of ibogaine? Cocaine for instance– I’ve heard of coke users taking just 20 mg of ibo a day for 16 days as the best way to transition off stimulants without the Big Bang of the typical opiate detox.

When do you think the crowd around ethan and peele will get around to processing the ibogaine information?

It’s good for the legalization movement, you know.

The existence of a medical treatment/cure for addictions (incl. legal addictions).

Dana/cnw

From: Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 28, 2002 at 1:14:05 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Alison Senepart wrote:

After reading your mail and digesting it all I can’t say I agree with it
all.  Are you quoting from books and literature or have you been addicted to
heroin, cocaine or any other substance.  Sounds to me as if you are quoting
from passages or literature that you have read but I could be wrong.  How
can you state that heroin leaves the body rapidly etc.  If thats the case
perhaps you could explain spending days in bed sweating, vomiting, turbulent
bowels and in general feeling like shite for days. My experience is that it
takes weeks to clean up not hours.   The reason most people resort to

heroin has a half-life (that is, the amount of time it takes for half of
the amount of drug taken to be eliminated) of 2 – 6 hours, depending on
the method of administration.

withdrawal symptoms are not a result of the drug being left in the system,
rather while the drug is present, withdrawal symptoms do not occur. this
is one of the rationals of methadone maintenence; since it has a longer
half life than heroin, the user can take it less frequently while still
avoiding withdrawal. unfortunately, the flip side of that is that
methadone can be more difficult to get off, since it stays in the body
longer.

in any case, opiate withdrawal occurs primarily because, after becoming
dependent on an opiate, the body’s production of endorphins is diminished.
endorphins are morphine like chemicals that protect the body from pain.

basically, when one takes opiates for an extended period of time, the body
goes “oh, ok. you’re putting these endorphin like things in me, so i dont
need to keep making em”. then, when the opiate use stops, it takes a
little while before your body realises “hey, shit. i need to start making
endorphins again”.

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From: Dana Beal <dana@cures-not-wars.org>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 28, 2002 at 1:10:57 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

And yes Alison, heroin/opiates do leave the body fairly quickly, in that I could use heroin tonight, (but won’t of course) and not have a urine test turn up positive within 72 hours, max.
That doesn’t mean that my body wouldn’t miss it of course. It’s even, in my mind, that quick loss of opiates from my body that made me feel sick from having no dope.
Peace,
Preston

But don’t you think many of the statements in the article are obsolete or just wrong in light of the existence of ibogaine? Cocaine for instance– I’ve heard of coke users taking just 20 mg of ibo a day for 16 days as the best way to transition off stimulants without the Big Bang of the typical opiate detox.

When do you think the crowd around ethan and peele will get around to processing the ibogaine information?

It’s good for the legalization movement, you know.

The existence of a medical treatment/cure for addictions (incl. legal addictions).

Dana/cnw

From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 28, 2002 at 9:28:30 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

And yes Alison, heroin/opiates do leave the body fairly quickly, in that I could use heroin tonight, (but won’t of course) and not have a urine test turn up positive within 72 hours, max.
That doesn’t mean that my body wouldn’t miss it of course. It’s even, in my mind, that quick loss of opiates from my body that made me feel sick from having no dope.
Peace,
Preston
—– Original Message —–
From: Alison Senepart
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?

After reading your mail and digesting it all I can’t say I agree with it
all.  Are you quoting from books and literature or have you been addicted to
heroin, cocaine or any other substance.  Sounds to me as if you are quoting
from passages or literature that you have read but I could be wrong.  How
can you state that heroin leaves the body rapidly etc.  If thats the case
perhaps you could explain spending days in bed sweating, vomiting, turbulent
bowels and in general feeling like shite for days. My experience is that it
takes weeks to clean up not hours.   The reason most people resort to
Methadone is to deal with these symptoms, especially after years of using
drugs and repeatedly going cold turkey which gets worse and harder as you
get older and more tolerarant.  If you have a job and need to get up and be
there or have children to look after methadone at least lets you achieve
some sort of capability.  You said that addiction is not a sickness but a
choice as I understand your mail which is probably quite true in the
beginning when you think you can control your life and what you do but has
no bearing further down the track when you find yourself totally emmeshed in
an endless cycle that you want to get out of but don’t know how or are
scared , hurting and totally screwed up.  Your mail seemed to state that all
the answers are there to be had but I’m not sure thats true for everyone.  I
thought your writing was very arrogant and self-righteous but perhaps I
picked it up incorrectly and am a bit prickly.  Would like to hear your
reply.   Allison
—–Original Message—–
From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@myrealbox.com>
To: ibogaine@lists.calyx.nl <ibogaine@lists.calyx.nl>; Ibogaine
<ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Date: Saturday, 28 December 2002 15:21
Subject: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?

>—– Original Message —–
>From: ReconsiDer
>
>reconsiDer: TIDBIT
>
>We’d all like to believe that the “solution” to our country’s drug problems
>lies in treatment rather than prison but does it? We know the problems with
>coerced treatment, but what about voluntary treatment… the “treatment on
>demand” that so many of us call for, does that work? A British doctor
>questions the whole idea of treatment in this interesting piece below.
>
>The Rehab Don’t Work
>
>19 December 2002
>
>by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
>
>'”No way could I have done this without detox and rehab” says Gale, 29.
“I’d
>probably be dead or in jail. I’d totally lost control of my life and hit
>rock bottom. I’d say I was suicidal.”‘ (1)
>
>Mark Gale was one of the first residents of the Oxford Drugs Recovery
>Project, which provides accommodation and drug treatment for homeless drug
>addicts. He spent three months on a ‘maintenance’ dose of methadone, then
>underwent gradual withdrawal with reducing doses of methadone over the next
>month. During this time he attended two therapy groups a day, had
one-to-one
>counselling and took part in social activities with other residents.
>
>This was a ‘stepping stone’ to a six-month residential rehabilitation
>programme in London, followed by three-months aftercare to accompany his
>move into supported housing near the rehabilitation centre.
>
>The problem identified in this article is that ‘Gale is one of the lucky
>ones’: services for detox and rehab are available for only a small
>proportion of homeless drug abusers. The author welcomes recent government
>proposals for a dramatic increase in the provision of treatment services of
>this sort.
>
>Indeed, ‘detox’ and ‘rehab’ were the central themes of the ‘Updated Drug
>Strategy’ launched by home secretary David Blunkett on 30 November. Though
>the government has been widely criticised over some aspects of its drug
>policy (such as its relaxation of measures against cannabis and its
>endorsement of the prescription of heroin by doctors), even its staunchest
>critics welcome the new report’s emphasis on treatment.
>
>The key shift signalled by the promotion of ‘detox and rehab’ is away from
a
>’law and order’ approach to the drug problem towards a new therapeutic
>strategy, emphasising education, treatment and support. (It is not
>surprising that Keith Hellawell, the drug tsar, had to go: New Labour’s
>crusade against drugs needs a social worker or a counsellor, not a
>policeman, as its symbolic head.) ‘Detox and rehab’ now go together like
>’rum and coke’, but what do they mean?
>
>’Detox’
>
>The use of the term ‘detoxification’ in relation to the problems of drug
>addiction appears in many ways idiosyncratic. It was used in the past to
>refer to the process of removing some poisonous substance from the body.
But
>the substances from which people now seek to be ‘detoxed’ – alcohol,
heroin,
>cocaine – are not poisons. Indeed they all have therapeutic uses as well as
>a range of familiar beneficial effects. It is true that they may all be
>harmful in excessive or habitual use, but that is true of most medications.
>
>Whereas the traditional process of detoxification was limited to the
removal
>of the toxic substance from the system, this is only a small part of the
>aims of the modern detox. Drugs of abuse, such as heroin and cocaine, tend
>to have a short duration of action and are cleared from the body within
>hours (the same is true of alcohol). Indeed this rapidity of effect and
>clearance is linked to their tendency to induce dependency: users seek to
>maintain or repeat the high by further ingestion. (This is also why people
>tend not to get addicted to anti-depressants, which take effect over weeks
>rather than hours.)
>
>Modern detox does nothing to accelerate the – already rapid – clearance of
>drugs >from the body. The distinctive feature of contemporary detox regimes
>is that, rather than simply removing one drug, they tend to replace it with
>another. Thus alcohol is commonly replaced with a benzodiazepine (such as
>chlordiazepoxide) and methadone is substituted for heroin. The role of
these
>substituted drugs is not to remove the problem drug, but to counteract
>symptoms which may result from its withdrawal – such as fits in alcoholics
>and muscle cramps in heroin addicts.
>
>It is worth noting that both these substitute drugs are also ‘toxic’ in
>overdose, and both are also associated with problems of long-term
>dependence. The conviction on 17 December of Kathleen McCluskey, from
>Cambridge, for the manslaughter of two men (she was accused of killing two
>more and of attempting to do the same to a fifth) by administering
methadone
>to them confirms the lethality of this drug (2).
>
>The concept of detox is most strained when it is applied to cocaine.
Cocaine
>produces a very rapid effect (a major part of its appeal) and it is also
>rapidly cleared (requiring frequently repeated doses for those habituated
to
>its use). However, unlike heroin, it does not require increasing doses to
>produce the same effect, so it does not produce a characteristic physical
>dependency.
>
>But whereas heroin can be replaced with methadone, no drug has been found
to
>substitute for cocaine. Despite a vast amount of research, mainly in the
>USA, and experimentation with numerous drugs, including anti-depressants,
>anti-convulsants, opiate antagonists and beta-blockers, nothing seems to
>work. As one recent account by Max Daly in the UK Guardian concluded:
‘there
>is currently no strong evidence to support the general use of medicines as
a
>way to ease withdrawal, reduce cocaine craving or promote abstinence.’ (3).
>A survey by the Royal College of Psychiatrists came to the same conclusion
>(4).
>
>The solution recommended by Max Daly was that cocaine addicts should be
>’placed on a residential “detox” programme’. The National Treatment Agency
>(NTA) is piloting 10 such schemes in the New Year. What is the nature of
the
>detox treatment on offer? According to the NTA chief executive Paul Hayes,
>the key is ‘cognitive behavioural approaches, particularly around relapse
>prevention and consolidating people’s motivation’.
>
>The schemes aim to provide ‘a structured series of counselling, group
>therapy and relapse prevention programmes’. Such is the fluidity of
concepts
>in this therapeutic universe that ‘detox’ has metamorphosed into ‘rehab’.
>
>’Rehab’
>
>’The belief that one is powerless and that one’s actions are somehow
>controlled by forces other than one’s own choices is discouraging and
>demoralising.’ (5)
>
>The concept of rehabilitation once meant restoring to their previous
>condition those whose standing in society had been impaired by injury or
>illness or some other misfortune (including their own deviant behaviour).
In
>its modern form, shortened in letters, but – as the case of Mark Gale
>indicates – not necessarily in duration, rehab does not seek to restore the
>status quo ante. It aims to effect a transition from dependence on drugs to
>dependence on some form of professional therapeutic intervention.
>
>Programmes of residential rehabilitation emerged out of the therapeutic
>community movement that flourished in the USA in the 1960s. One of the
>earliest therapeutic communities for drug addicts was Synanon, set up by
the
>charismatic Charles Dederich in California (6). Synanon pioneered a
>confrontational, hierarchical approach that assumed that drug addicts had
>intrinsic – and possibly intractable – personality defects that needed to
be
>challenged through long-term intensive therapy. Membership involved
>surrendering all personal rights and being treated as a child not allowed
to
>make personal decisions. Treatment involved forceful re-education and
>structured humiliation.
>
>Synanon became notorious when Dederich became obsessed with the notion that
>clients who left the community were betraying him. He employed a security
>force to coerce clients into staying and was ultimately convicted for
>placing a rattlesnake in the mailbox of a lawyer representing dissident
>clients (7). In his book The Meaning of Addiction, Stanton Peele notes that
>former Dederich supporters, including celebrities such as Jane Fonda,
>claimed that Dederich’s actions violated the Synanon philosophy. ‘In fact’,
>Peele comments, ‘his response was the natural consequence of the Synanon
>credo that membership in the community is a lifetime proposition’ (8).
>
>A wide range of secular and religious organisations now offer residential
>rehab programmes on the therapeutic community model. Some are more
>autocratic, some more democratic; some insist on abstinence from forbidden
>substances, others take a more liberal approach. But they share a
commitment
>to communal living, group and individual therapy, and shared domestic and
>leisure activities. A survey by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2000
>noted that there were more than 100 centres in the UK offering residential
>rehab; the figure is now certainly higher (9).
>
>Given the popularity of the therapeutic approach pioneered by Alcoholics
>Anonymous (AA) in contemporary rehab programmes, it merits a brief
>discussion. After the end of Prohibition in the USA in the 1930s, the AA
>movement combined the evangelical fervour of the Temperance campaign with
>the modern theory that alcoholism was a disease rather than a moral
failing.
>The first two of the now-famous ’12 steps’ through which AA guides its
>adherents to sobriety require that they admit ‘powerlessness’ over alcohol
>and submit themselves to ‘a Power’ greater than themselves (six of the
steps
>refer to the deity).
>
>For AA, alcoholism is a life-long illness against which only total
>abstinence can prevail, in an indefinite process of recovery. As Stanton
>Peele, a veteran campaigner against the AA approach in the USA, observes,
>the style of AA groups is derived from the Protestant revival meeting,
>’where the sinner seeks salvation through personal testimony, public
>contrition, and submission to a higher power’ (echoes of this style are
>apparent in the testimony of Mark Gale, quoted above) (10).
>
>Through a combination of skilful self-promotion, endorsement by the medical
>and psychiatric professions and encouragement from state authorities, AA
has
>become a major influence in the USA – and in other Western countries. Its
>approach has spread far beyond alcohol to other areas of addiction,
>including sex and gambling, and, of course, through Narcotics Anonymous
>(NA), to drugs.
>
>A patient of mine was recently admitted – at the expense of the health
>authority – to a residential rehab programme at a clinic that describes
>itself as ‘one of the leading centres in Europe’. According to the clinic
>letter, she sought ‘treatment for chemical dependency on cannabis, cocaine
>and ecstasy’ (though, in pharmacological terms, none of these drugs induces
>chemical dependency). The centre’s prospectus outlines its theory of
>addiction: ‘We believe that addiction to alcohol and drugs (chemical
>dependency) is a chronic, progressive, primary and incurable disease, not a
>problem of morals or willpower. The disease, if left unchecked, will prove
>terminal.’
>
>The clinic provides five phases of treatment based on the AA model: ‘the
>most important and difficult phase of the treatment is to break through the
>patient’s denial.’ Yet, ‘once patients have accepted they have a disease
>they are able to progress through the programme to begin their recovery’.
>During treatment, my patient ‘began to accept powerlessness and
>unmanageability and how this relates to the use of chemicals’. After eight
>weeks she was discharged home with recommendations that she maintain ‘total
>abstinence from alcohol and all mood-altering substances’, that she attend
>regular meetings of AA and NA and that she receive ‘aftercare follow-up’ at
>the clinic’s own ‘aftercare unit’. She relapsed shortly afterwards.
>
>’Treatment works’?
>
>’Many people who oppose the ‘war on drugs’ say that the ‘solution’ to the
>’problem’ is ‘treatment’. This is baloney. Addiction treatment is a scam.’
>(11)
>
>The phrase ‘treatment works’ is repeated like a mantra in the government’s
>’Updated Drug Strategy’. Everybody in the world of drug policy is desperate
>to believe that it is true. Indeed it is supported by evidence from
research
>that is either carried out directly by government agencies (such as the
>National Treatment Outcomes Research Study) or commissioned by them. But
are
>such studies reliable? Here the British authorities might learn from the
>(vast) experience of the USA in this field.
>
>Research on the efficacy of treatment programmes for problems of addiction
>in the USA follows a now-familiar pattern. This begins when promoters of a
>new scheme or programme claim dramatic successes (often accompanied by
media
>and celebrity endorsements). Early studies, often influenced by the
>enthusiasm of the promoters and the zeal of those they have cured, tend to
>confirm impressive results. Later, when the publicity had died down and
>independent researchers take a more dispassionate view of the outcomes of
>treatment over a longer period, the extravagant claims cannot be sustained.
>
>Writing 25 years ago, Griffith Edwards, one of the leading British
>authorities on alcoholism, summed up the problem: ‘It is not only that the
>research literature is poor in reports which suggest that any particular
>treatment is advantageous; on the contrary, it is rich in reports which
>demonstrate that a given treatment is no better than another.’ (12) This
>does not mean that nobody benefits from treatment. It is simply that they
do
>not seem to do so at any higher rate than without treatment. As Jeffrey
>Schaler, a trenchant critic of these methods, puts it: ‘One treatment tends
>to be just about as effective as any other treatment, which is just about
as
>effective as no treatment at all.’ (13) Both Schaler and Peele provide
>examples that substantiate these conclusions.
>
>In his book The Therapeutic State, another American critic, James Nolan,
>presents a detailed account of the drug courts in Dade County, Florida
(13).
>These courts pioneered the diversion of drug abusers from the criminal
>justice system into treatment programmes, developing a model that has been
>taken up widely in the USA – and now features prominently in British drug
>policy. Nolan shows that the claims for the success of these programmes
have
>not been borne out by independent scrutiny. He reveals how the redefinition
>of goals and a number of statistical scams have contributed to the
>impression that ‘treatment works’.
>
>A recent British account draws together the results of a number of studies
>of long-term patterns of heroin use (14). These reveal that many users
>spontaneously give up the drug of their own accord, without benefit of
>detox, rehab or any other professional intervention. The authors reckon
that
>’at least five to 10 percent manage this every year’ and estimate that the
>average length of a ‘serious heroin-using career is about 15 to 20 years’.
>
>They emphasise that ‘this figure is independent of treatment’: ‘There is no
>evidence to date that any form of treatment makes any difference to length
>of heroin use.’ They conclude that ‘people give up when they are ready to
do
>so. Events in their lives are much more important in making this decision
>than anything that occurs in the clinic’.
>
>The dangers of detox/rehab
>
>’Rehabilitation is shite; sometimes ah think ah’d rather be banged up.
>Rehabilitation means the surrender ay the self’, wrote Irvine Welsh in
>Trainspotting (15)
>
>If the best that can be said of the detox/rehab approach is that it is
>ineffective, the more serious charge against it is that it reinforces a
>concept of addiction that is degrading to people with drug problems and
>results in the further diminution of their autonomy.
>
>Behind the manifold absurdities of ‘detox’ lies a conception of drugs as an
>autonomous malign power over individuals and society. This tendency to make
>drugs a fetish pervades the government’s ‘Updated Drug Strategy’, which
>refers to the ‘damage caused by drugs’ to communities and to the need to
>’protect young people from drugs’.
>
>But drugs are inanimate material; they have no will or power of their own.
>As Schaler observes, ‘drugs don’t cause addiction’: people choose to use
>them for a variety of reasons, often to help them cope with problems of
>living (even though the costs may appear to exceed the benefits). Stanton
>Peele and Archie Brodsky insist that ‘it is important to place addictive
>habits in their proper context, as part of people’s lives, their
>personalities, their relationships, their environments, their perspectives’
>(16).
>
>The preoccupation with the supposedly objective ‘toxic’ character of drugs,
>and the notion of addiction as a disease, leave the subjectivity of the
drug
>user out of the picture. Yet as Peele and Brodsky emphasise, any attempt to
>influence addictive behaviour must take into account the wider realities of
>the life of the individual in society. It is only as targets of the ‘war on
>drugs’ that drug users come into focus: it is of course impossible to wage
>war against pharmaceuticals, only against those who use them.
>
>Though the AA’s 12-step approach has crossed the Atlantic, it is
regrettable
>that its critics are not yet widely known in Britain: as a result, rehab
>clinics using these techniques have become widely established with
virtually
>no public controversy.
>
>Peele and Brodksy summarise the flaws of the AA model as follows: ‘it is
>’religious and dogmatic’, demanding strict adherence to the group policy
and
>not allowing personal choices or individual variations; it ‘undermines
>individual confidence’ by insisting on members’ weaknesses and predicting
>the worst outcomes for those who violate group policies; it reinforces the
>’addict identity’ and discourages people from emerging out of it; it
focuses
>on the addiction and the group itself, ignoring the quality of members’
>lives outside the group. (17)
>
>The authors do not deny that AA groups have proven effective for some
>people. But the basic premise of AA – that the individual is powerless and
>should seek to replace the control of one external force (drugs) with
>another (God, or, in the interim, the group) – can only intensify the loss
>of autonomy that leads to drug abuse in the first place.
>
>No doubt some rehab programmes reject the AA model. But by their very
>nature, residential schemes isolate the drug user from the context in which
>the problem has arisen. The intensity and intimacy of relations established
>among members of the therapeutic group – and between clients and
therapists,
>is likely to reinforce the client’s isolation from society. It is not
>surprising that residents quickly become drug-free in their communal home –
>or that they quickly relapse on leaving it. Though this is clearly why
there
>is such an emphasis on ‘aftercare’ and ‘follow-up’, it also indicates the
>client’s continuing dependency on the therapeutic relationship forged in
>rehab.
>
>The trend for drug users to be mandated to attend detox/rehab programmes,
by
>the police, the courts, occupational health services, reflects the
>authoritarian dynamic behind the therapeutic face of official drug policy.
>The therapeutic approach is not an alternative to the criminal justice
>approach to drug abuse, but proceeds in tandem with it. And, whereas a
>prison sentence comes to an end, therapy goes on for ever.
>
>But surely it is better to be dependent on therapy than to be hooked on
>heroin? Perhaps, but better still to live an independent life, free of both
>drugs and therapists.
>
>Dr Michael Fitzpatrick is the author of The Tyranny of Health: Doctors and
>the Regulation of Lifestyle, Routledge, 2000 (buy this book from Amazon
(UK)
>or Amazon (USA)), and a contributor to Alternative Medicine: Should We
>Swallow It? Hodder & Stoughton, 2002 (buy this book from Amazon (UK).
>
>Read on:
>
>spiked-issue: Drink and drugs
>
>(1) Guardian, 11 December
>
>(2) ‘Black Widow’ killed two with methadone, Guardian, 18 December 2002
>
>(3) Rocky road, Guardian, 23 October 2002
>
>(4) Royal College of Psychiatrists, Drugs: Dilemmas and Choices, Gaskell,
>2000, p176
>
>(5) Jeffrey A Schaler, Addiction is a Choice, Open Court, 2000, p40
>
>(6) Tom Carnath and Ian Smith, Heroin Century, Routledge, 2002, p 159
>
>(7) Stanton Peele, The Meaning of Addiction: an unconventional view, Jossey
>Bass, 1985, p144
>
>(8) Stanton Peele, The Meaning of Addiction: an unconventional view, Jossey
>Bass, 1985
>
>(9) Royal College of Psychiatrists, Drugs: Dilemmas and Choices, Gaskell,
>2000, p162
>
>(10) Stanton Peele, The Meaning of Addiction: an unconventional view,
Jossey
>Bass, 1985, p31
>
>(11) Jeffrey A Schaler, Addiction is a Choice, Open Court, 2000, p 141
>
>(12) Quoted by Jeffrey A Schaler, Addiction is a Choice, Open Court, 2000,
>p44
>
>(13) James Nolan, The Therapeutic State: justifying government at century’s
>end, New York University Press, 1998
>
>(14) Tom Carnath and Ian Smith, Heroin Century, Routledge, 2002, p171
>
>(15) Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Minerva 1993 , 1993, p181
>
>(16) T Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky, The Truth About Addiction and
>Recovery, Fireside, 1992; p42
>
>(17) Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky, The Truth About Addiction and
>Recovery, Fireside, 1992, p 314
>
>
>Associated links:
>
>Reprinted >from : http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DB92.htm
>
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From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 28, 2002 at 8:57:44 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Lonny Shavelson (sp?) does a great job of looking at this whole kit and
kaboodle in his book “Hooked”. He isn’t overly optimistic about current
treatments, (currently accepted treatments I mean), for drug abuse.
Peace,
Preston
—– Original Message —–
From: Alison Senepart
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does
it?

After reading your mail and digesting it all I can’t say I agree with it
all.  Are you quoting from books and literature or have you been addicted to
heroin, cocaine or any other substance.  Sounds to me as if you are quoting
from passages or literature that you have read but I could be wrong.  How
can you state that heroin leaves the body rapidly etc.  If thats the case
perhaps you could explain spending days in bed sweating, vomiting, turbulent
bowels and in general feeling like shite for days. My experience is that it
takes weeks to clean up not hours.   The reason most people resort to
Methadone is to deal with these symptoms, especially after years of using
drugs and repeatedly going cold turkey which gets worse and harder as you
get older and more tolerarant.  If you have a job and need to get up and be
there or have children to look after methadone at least lets you achieve
some sort of capability.  You said that addiction is not a sickness but a
choice as I understand your mail which is probably quite true in the
beginning when you think you can control your life and what you do but has
no bearing further down the track when you find yourself totally emmeshed in
an endless cycle that you want to get out of but don’t know how or are
scared , hurting and totally screwed up.  Your mail seemed to state that all
the answers are there to be had but I’m not sure thats true for everyone.  I
thought your writing was very arrogant and self-righteous but perhaps I
picked it up incorrectly and am a bit prickly.  Would like to hear your
reply.   Allison
—–Original Message—–
From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@myrealbox.com>
To: ibogaine@lists.calyx.nl <ibogaine@lists.calyx.nl>; Ibogaine
<ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Date: Saturday, 28 December 2002 15:21
Subject: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?

—– Original Message —–
From: ReconsiDer

reconsiDer: TIDBIT

We’d all like to believe that the “solution” to our country’s drug problems
lies in treatment rather than prison but does it? We know the problems with
coerced treatment, but what about voluntary treatment… the “treatment on
demand” that so many of us call for, does that work? A British doctor
questions the whole idea of treatment in this interesting piece below.

The Rehab Don’t Work

19 December 2002

by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick

‘”No way could I have done this without detox and rehab” says Gale, 29.
“I’d
probably be dead or in jail. I’d totally lost control of my life and hit
rock bottom. I’d say I was suicidal.”‘ (1)

Mark Gale was one of the first residents of the Oxford Drugs Recovery
Project, which provides accommodation and drug treatment for homeless drug
addicts. He spent three months on a ‘maintenance’ dose of methadone, then
underwent gradual withdrawal with reducing doses of methadone over the next
month. During this time he attended two therapy groups a day, had
one-to-one
counselling and took part in social activities with other residents.

This was a ‘stepping stone’ to a six-month residential rehabilitation
programme in London, followed by three-months aftercare to accompany his
move into supported housing near the rehabilitation centre.

The problem identified in this article is that ‘Gale is one of the lucky
ones’: services for detox and rehab are available for only a small
proportion of homeless drug abusers. The author welcomes recent government
proposals for a dramatic increase in the provision of treatment services of
this sort.

Indeed, ‘detox’ and ‘rehab’ were the central themes of the ‘Updated Drug
Strategy’ launched by home secretary David Blunkett on 30 November. Though
the government has been widely criticised over some aspects of its drug
policy (such as its relaxation of measures against cannabis and its
endorsement of the prescription of heroin by doctors), even its staunchest
critics welcome the new report’s emphasis on treatment.

The key shift signalled by the promotion of ‘detox and rehab’ is away from
a
‘law and order’ approach to the drug problem towards a new therapeutic
strategy, emphasising education, treatment and support. (It is not
surprising that Keith Hellawell, the drug tsar, had to go: New Labour’s
crusade against drugs needs a social worker or a counsellor, not a
policeman, as its symbolic head.) ‘Detox and rehab’ now go together like
‘rum and coke’, but what do they mean?

‘Detox’

The use of the term ‘detoxification’ in relation to the problems of drug
addiction appears in many ways idiosyncratic. It was used in the past to
refer to the process of removing some poisonous substance from the body.
But
the substances from which people now seek to be ‘detoxed’ – alcohol,
heroin,
cocaine – are not poisons. Indeed they all have therapeutic uses as well as
a range of familiar beneficial effects. It is true that they may all be
harmful in excessive or habitual use, but that is true of most medications.

Whereas the traditional process of detoxification was limited to the
removal
of the toxic substance from the system, this is only a small part of the
aims of the modern detox. Drugs of abuse, such as heroin and cocaine, tend
to have a short duration of action and are cleared from the body within
hours (the same is true of alcohol). Indeed this rapidity of effect and
clearance is linked to their tendency to induce dependency: users seek to
maintain or repeat the high by further ingestion. (This is also why people
tend not to get addicted to anti-depressants, which take effect over weeks
rather than hours.)

Modern detox does nothing to accelerate the – already rapid – clearance of
drugs from the body. The distinctive feature of contemporary detox regimes
is that, rather than simply removing one drug, they tend to replace it with
another. Thus alcohol is commonly replaced with a benzodiazepine (such as
chlordiazepoxide) and methadone is substituted for heroin. The role of
these
substituted drugs is not to remove the problem drug, but to counteract
symptoms which may result from its withdrawal – such as fits in alcoholics
and muscle cramps in heroin addicts.

It is worth noting that both these substitute drugs are also ‘toxic’ in
overdose, and both are also associated with problems of long-term
dependence. The conviction on 17 December of Kathleen McCluskey, from
Cambridge, for the manslaughter of two men (she was accused of killing two
more and of attempting to do the same to a fifth) by administering
methadone
to them confirms the lethality of this drug (2).

The concept of detox is most strained when it is applied to cocaine.
Cocaine
produces a very rapid effect (a major part of its appeal) and it is also
rapidly cleared (requiring frequently repeated doses for those habituated
to
its use). However, unlike heroin, it does not require increasing doses to
produce the same effect, so it does not produce a characteristic physical
dependency.

But whereas heroin can be replaced with methadone, no drug has been found
to
substitute for cocaine. Despite a vast amount of research, mainly in the
USA, and experimentation with numerous drugs, including anti-depressants,
anti-convulsants, opiate antagonists and beta-blockers, nothing seems to
work. As one recent account by Max Daly in the UK Guardian concluded:
‘there
is currently no strong evidence to support the general use of medicines as
a
way to ease withdrawal, reduce cocaine craving or promote abstinence.’ (3).
A survey by the Royal College of Psychiatrists came to the same conclusion
(4).

The solution recommended by Max Daly was that cocaine addicts should be
‘placed on a residential “detox” programme’. The National Treatment Agency
(NTA) is piloting 10 such schemes in the New Year. What is the nature of
the
detox treatment on offer? According to the NTA chief executive Paul Hayes,
the key is ‘cognitive behavioural approaches, particularly around relapse
prevention and consolidating people’s motivation’.

The schemes aim to provide ‘a structured series of counselling, group
therapy and relapse prevention programmes’. Such is the fluidity of
concepts
in this therapeutic universe that ‘detox’ has metamorphosed into ‘rehab’.

‘Rehab’

‘The belief that one is powerless and that one’s actions are somehow
controlled by forces other than one’s own choices is discouraging and
demoralising.’ (5)

The concept of rehabilitation once meant restoring to their previous
condition those whose standing in society had been impaired by injury or
illness or some other misfortune (including their own deviant behaviour).
In
its modern form, shortened in letters, but – as the case of Mark Gale
indicates – not necessarily in duration, rehab does not seek to restore the
status quo ante. It aims to effect a transition from dependence on drugs to
dependence on some form of professional therapeutic intervention.

Programmes of residential rehabilitation emerged out of the therapeutic
community movement that flourished in the USA in the 1960s. One of the
earliest therapeutic communities for drug addicts was Synanon, set up by
the
charismatic Charles Dederich in California (6). Synanon pioneered a
confrontational, hierarchical approach that assumed that drug addicts had
intrinsic – and possibly intractable – personality defects that needed to
be
challenged through long-term intensive therapy. Membership involved
surrendering all personal rights and being treated as a child not allowed
to
make personal decisions. Treatment involved forceful re-education and
structured humiliation.

Synanon became notorious when Dederich became obsessed with the notion that
clients who left the community were betraying him. He employed a security
force to coerce clients into staying and was ultimately convicted for
placing a rattlesnake in the mailbox of a lawyer representing dissident
clients (7). In his book The Meaning of Addiction, Stanton Peele notes that
former Dederich supporters, including celebrities such as Jane Fonda,
claimed that Dederich’s actions violated the Synanon philosophy. ‘In fact’,
Peele comments, ‘his response was the natural consequence of the Synanon
credo that membership in the community is a lifetime proposition’ (8).

A wide range of secular and religious organisations now offer residential
rehab programmes on the therapeutic community model. Some are more
autocratic, some more democratic; some insist on abstinence from forbidden
substances, others take a more liberal approach. But they share a
commitment
to communal living, group and individual therapy, and shared domestic and
leisure activities. A survey by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2000
noted that there were more than 100 centres in the UK offering residential
rehab; the figure is now certainly higher (9).

Given the popularity of the therapeutic approach pioneered by Alcoholics
Anonymous (AA) in contemporary rehab programmes, it merits a brief
discussion. After the end of Prohibition in the USA in the 1930s, the AA
movement combined the evangelical fervour of the Temperance campaign with
the modern theory that alcoholism was a disease rather than a moral
failing.
The first two of the now-famous ’12 steps’ through which AA guides its
adherents to sobriety require that they admit ‘powerlessness’ over alcohol
and submit themselves to ‘a Power’ greater than themselves (six of the
steps
refer to the deity).

For AA, alcoholism is a life-long illness against which only total
abstinence can prevail, in an indefinite process of recovery. As Stanton
Peele, a veteran campaigner against the AA approach in the USA, observes,
the style of AA groups is derived from the Protestant revival meeting,
‘where the sinner seeks salvation through personal testimony, public
contrition, and submission to a higher power’ (echoes of this style are
apparent in the testimony of Mark Gale, quoted above) (10).

Through a combination of skilful self-promotion, endorsement by the medical
and psychiatric professions and encouragement from state authorities, AA
has
become a major influence in the USA – and in other Western countries. Its
approach has spread far beyond alcohol to other areas of addiction,
including sex and gambling, and, of course, through Narcotics Anonymous
(NA), to drugs.

A patient of mine was recently admitted – at the expense of the health
authority – to a residential rehab programme at a clinic that describes
itself as ‘one of the leading centres in Europe’. According to the clinic
letter, she sought ‘treatment for chemical dependency on cannabis, cocaine
and ecstasy’ (though, in pharmacological terms, none of these drugs induces
chemical dependency). The centre’s prospectus outlines its theory of
addiction: ‘We believe that addiction to alcohol and drugs (chemical
dependency) is a chronic, progressive, primary and incurable disease, not a
problem of morals or willpower. The disease, if left unchecked, will prove
terminal.’

The clinic provides five phases of treatment based on the AA model: ‘the
most important and difficult phase of the treatment is to break through the
patient’s denial.’ Yet, ‘once patients have accepted they have a disease
they are able to progress through the programme to begin their recovery’.
During treatment, my patient ‘began to accept powerlessness and
unmanageability and how this relates to the use of chemicals’. After eight
weeks she was discharged home with recommendations that she maintain ‘total
abstinence from alcohol and all mood-altering substances’, that she attend
regular meetings of AA and NA and that she receive ‘aftercare follow-up’ at
the clinic’s own ‘aftercare unit’. She relapsed shortly afterwards.

‘Treatment works’?

‘Many people who oppose the ‘war on drugs’ say that the ‘solution’ to the
‘problem’ is ‘treatment’. This is baloney. Addiction treatment is a scam.’
(11)

The phrase ‘treatment works’ is repeated like a mantra in the government’s
‘Updated Drug Strategy’. Everybody in the world of drug policy is desperate
to believe that it is true. Indeed it is supported by evidence from
research
that is either carried out directly by government agencies (such as the
National Treatment Outcomes Research Study) or commissioned by them. But
are
such studies reliable? Here the British authorities might learn from the
(vast) experience of the USA in this field.

Research on the efficacy of treatment programmes for problems of addiction
in the USA follows a now-familiar pattern. This begins when promoters of a
new scheme or programme claim dramatic successes (often accompanied by
media
and celebrity endorsements). Early studies, often influenced by the
enthusiasm of the promoters and the zeal of those they have cured, tend to
confirm impressive results. Later, when the publicity had died down and
independent researchers take a more dispassionate view of the outcomes of
treatment over a longer period, the extravagant claims cannot be sustained.

Writing 25 years ago, Griffith Edwards, one of the leading British
authorities on alcoholism, summed up the problem: ‘It is not only that the
research literature is poor in reports which suggest that any particular
treatment is advantageous; on the contrary, it is rich in reports which
demonstrate that a given treatment is no better than another.’ (12) This
does not mean that nobody benefits from treatment. It is simply that they
do
not seem to do so at any higher rate than without treatment. As Jeffrey
Schaler, a trenchant critic of these methods, puts it: ‘One treatment tends
to be just about as effective as any other treatment, which is just about
as
effective as no treatment at all.’ (13) Both Schaler and Peele provide
examples that substantiate these conclusions.

In his book The Therapeutic State, another American critic, James Nolan,
presents a detailed account of the drug courts in Dade County, Florida
(13).
These courts pioneered the diversion of drug abusers from the criminal
justice system into treatment programmes, developing a model that has been
taken up widely in the USA – and now features prominently in British drug
policy. Nolan shows that the claims for the success of these programmes
have
not been borne out by independent scrutiny. He reveals how the redefinition
of goals and a number of statistical scams have contributed to the
impression that ‘treatment works’.

A recent British account draws together the results of a number of studies
of long-term patterns of heroin use (14). These reveal that many users
spontaneously give up the drug of their own accord, without benefit of
detox, rehab or any other professional intervention. The authors reckon
that
‘at least five to 10 percent manage this every year’ and estimate that the
average length of a ‘serious heroin-using career is about 15 to 20 years’.

They emphasise that ‘this figure is independent of treatment’: ‘There is no
evidence to date that any form of treatment makes any difference to length
of heroin use.’ They conclude that ‘people give up when they are ready to
do
so. Events in their lives are much more important in making this decision
than anything that occurs in the clinic’.

The dangers of detox/rehab

‘Rehabilitation is shite; sometimes ah think ah’d rather be banged up.
Rehabilitation means the surrender ay the self’, wrote Irvine Welsh in
Trainspotting (15)

If the best that can be said of the detox/rehab approach is that it is
ineffective, the more serious charge against it is that it reinforces a
concept of addiction that is degrading to people with drug problems and
results in the further diminution of their autonomy.

Behind the manifold absurdities of ‘detox’ lies a conception of drugs as an
autonomous malign power over individuals and society. This tendency to make
drugs a fetish pervades the government’s ‘Updated Drug Strategy’, which
refers to the ‘damage caused by drugs’ to communities and to the need to
‘protect young people from drugs’.

But drugs are inanimate material; they have no will or power of their own.
As Schaler observes, ‘drugs don’t cause addiction’: people choose to use
them for a variety of reasons, often to help them cope with problems of
living (even though the costs may appear to exceed the benefits). Stanton
Peele and Archie Brodsky insist that ‘it is important to place addictive
habits in their proper context, as part of people’s lives, their
personalities, their relationships, their environments, their perspectives’
(16).

The preoccupation with the supposedly objective ‘toxic’ character of drugs,
and the notion of addiction as a disease, leave the subjectivity of the
drug
user out of the picture. Yet as Peele and Brodsky emphasise, any attempt to
influence addictive behaviour must take into account the wider realities of
the life of the individual in society. It is only as targets of the ‘war on
drugs’ that drug users come into focus: it is of course impossible to wage
war against pharmaceuticals, only against those who use them.

Though the AA’s 12-step approach has crossed the Atlantic, it is
regrettable
that its critics are not yet widely known in Britain: as a result, rehab
clinics using these techniques have become widely established with
virtually
no public controversy.

Peele and Brodksy summarise the flaws of the AA model as follows: ‘it is
‘religious and dogmatic’, demanding strict adherence to the group policy
and
not allowing personal choices or individual variations; it ‘undermines
individual confidence’ by insisting on members’ weaknesses and predicting
the worst outcomes for those who violate group policies; it reinforces the
‘addict identity’ and discourages people from emerging out of it; it
focuses
on the addiction and the group itself, ignoring the quality of members’
lives outside the group. (17)

The authors do not deny that AA groups have proven effective for some
people. But the basic premise of AA – that the individual is powerless and
should seek to replace the control of one external force (drugs) with
another (God, or, in the interim, the group) – can only intensify the loss
of autonomy that leads to drug abuse in the first place.

No doubt some rehab programmes reject the AA model. But by their very
nature, residential schemes isolate the drug user from the context in which
the problem has arisen. The intensity and intimacy of relations established
among members of the therapeutic group – and between clients and
therapists,
is likely to reinforce the client’s isolation from society. It is not
surprising that residents quickly become drug-free in their communal home –
or that they quickly relapse on leaving it. Though this is clearly why
there
is such an emphasis on ‘aftercare’ and ‘follow-up’, it also indicates the
client’s continuing dependency on the therapeutic relationship forged in
rehab.

The trend for drug users to be mandated to attend detox/rehab programmes,
by
the police, the courts, occupational health services, reflects the
authoritarian dynamic behind the therapeutic face of official drug policy.
The therapeutic approach is not an alternative to the criminal justice
approach to drug abuse, but proceeds in tandem with it. And, whereas a
prison sentence comes to an end, therapy goes on for ever.

But surely it is better to be dependent on therapy than to be hooked on
heroin? Perhaps, but better still to live an independent life, free of both
drugs and therapists.

Dr Michael Fitzpatrick is the author of The Tyranny of Health: Doctors and
the Regulation of Lifestyle, Routledge, 2000 (buy this book from Amazon
(UK)
or Amazon (USA)), and a contributor to Alternative Medicine: Should We
Swallow It? Hodder & Stoughton, 2002 (buy this book from Amazon (UK).

Read on:

spiked-issue: Drink and drugs

(1) Guardian, 11 December

(2) ‘Black Widow’ killed two with methadone, Guardian, 18 December 2002

(3) Rocky road, Guardian, 23 October 2002

(4) Royal College of Psychiatrists, Drugs: Dilemmas and Choices, Gaskell,
2000, p176

(5) Jeffrey A Schaler, Addiction is a Choice, Open Court, 2000, p40

(6) Tom Carnath and Ian Smith, Heroin Century, Routledge, 2002, p 159

(7) Stanton Peele, The Meaning of Addiction: an unconventional view, Jossey
Bass, 1985, p144

(8) Stanton Peele, The Meaning of Addiction: an unconventional view, Jossey
Bass, 1985

(9) Royal College of Psychiatrists, Drugs: Dilemmas and Choices, Gaskell,
2000, p162

(10) Stanton Peele, The Meaning of Addiction: an unconventional view,
Jossey
Bass, 1985, p31

(11) Jeffrey A Schaler, Addiction is a Choice, Open Court, 2000, p 141

(12) Quoted by Jeffrey A Schaler, Addiction is a Choice, Open Court, 2000,
p44

(13) James Nolan, The Therapeutic State: justifying government at century’s
end, New York University Press, 1998

(14) Tom Carnath and Ian Smith, Heroin Century, Routledge, 2002, p171

(15) Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Minerva 1993 , 1993, p181

(16) T Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky, The Truth About Addiction and
Recovery, Fireside, 1992; p42

(17) Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky, The Truth About Addiction and
Recovery, Fireside, 1992, p 314

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From: “Alison Senepart” <aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 28, 2002 at 6:09:50 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

After reading your mail and digesting it all I can’t say I agree with it
all.  Are you quoting from books and literature or have you been addicted to
heroin, cocaine or any other substance.  Sounds to me as if you are quoting
from passages or literature that you have read but I could be wrong.  How
can you state that heroin leaves the body rapidly etc.  If thats the case
perhaps you could explain spending days in bed sweating, vomiting, turbulent
bowels and in general feeling like shite for days. My experience is that it
takes weeks to clean up not hours.   The reason most people resort to
Methadone is to deal with these symptoms, especially after years of using
drugs and repeatedly going cold turkey which gets worse and harder as you
get older and more tolerarant.  If you have a job and need to get up and be
there or have children to look after methadone at least lets you achieve
some sort of capability.  You said that addiction is not a sickness but a
choice as I understand your mail which is probably quite true in the
beginning when you think you can control your life and what you do but has
no bearing further down the track when you find yourself totally emmeshed in
an endless cycle that you want to get out of but don’t know how or are
scared , hurting and totally screwed up.  Your mail seemed to state that all
the answers are there to be had but I’m not sure thats true for everyone.  I
thought your writing was very arrogant and self-righteous but perhaps I
picked it up incorrectly and am a bit prickly.  Would like to hear your
reply.   Allison
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Date: Saturday, 28 December 2002 15:21
Subject: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?

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We’d all like to believe that the “solution” to our country’s drug problems
lies in treatment rather than prison but does it? We know the problems with
coerced treatment, but what about voluntary treatment… the “treatment on
demand” that so many of us call for, does that work? A British doctor
questions the whole idea of treatment in this interesting piece below.

The Rehab Don’t Work

19 December 2002

by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick

‘”No way could I have done this without detox and rehab” says Gale, 29.
“I’d
probably be dead or in jail. I’d totally lost control of my life and hit
rock bottom. I’d say I was suicidal.”‘ (1)

Mark Gale was one of the first residents of the Oxford Drugs Recovery
Project, which provides accommodation and drug treatment for homeless drug
addicts. He spent three months on a ‘maintenance’ dose of methadone, then
underwent gradual withdrawal with reducing doses of methadone over the next
month. During this time he attended two therapy groups a day, had
one-to-one
counselling and took part in social activities with other residents.

This was a ‘stepping stone’ to a six-month residential rehabilitation
programme in London, followed by three-months aftercare to accompany his
move into supported housing near the rehabilitation centre.

The problem identified in this article is that ‘Gale is one of the lucky
ones’: services for detox and rehab are available for only a small
proportion of homeless drug abusers. The author welcomes recent government
proposals for a dramatic increase in the provision of treatment services of
this sort.

Indeed, ‘detox’ and ‘rehab’ were the central themes of the ‘Updated Drug
Strategy’ launched by home secretary David Blunkett on 30 November. Though
the government has been widely criticised over some aspects of its drug
policy (such as its relaxation of measures against cannabis and its
endorsement of the prescription of heroin by doctors), even its staunchest
critics welcome the new report’s emphasis on treatment.

The key shift signalled by the promotion of ‘detox and rehab’ is away from
a
‘law and order’ approach to the drug problem towards a new therapeutic
strategy, emphasising education, treatment and support. (It is not
surprising that Keith Hellawell, the drug tsar, had to go: New Labour’s
crusade against drugs needs a social worker or a counsellor, not a
policeman, as its symbolic head.) ‘Detox and rehab’ now go together like
‘rum and coke’, but what do they mean?

‘Detox’

The use of the term ‘detoxification’ in relation to the problems of drug
addiction appears in many ways idiosyncratic. It was used in the past to
refer to the process of removing some poisonous substance from the body.
But
the substances from which people now seek to be ‘detoxed’ – alcohol,
heroin,
cocaine – are not poisons. Indeed they all have therapeutic uses as well as
a range of familiar beneficial effects. It is true that they may all be
harmful in excessive or habitual use, but that is true of most medications.

Whereas the traditional process of detoxification was limited to the
removal
of the toxic substance from the system, this is only a small part of the
aims of the modern detox. Drugs of abuse, such as heroin and cocaine, tend
to have a short duration of action and are cleared from the body within
hours (the same is true of alcohol). Indeed this rapidity of effect and
clearance is linked to their tendency to induce dependency: users seek to
maintain or repeat the high by further ingestion. (This is also why people
tend not to get addicted to anti-depressants, which take effect over weeks
rather than hours.)

Modern detox does nothing to accelerate the – already rapid – clearance of
drugs from the body. The distinctive feature of contemporary detox regimes
is that, rather than simply removing one drug, they tend to replace it with
another. Thus alcohol is commonly replaced with a benzodiazepine (such as
chlordiazepoxide) and methadone is substituted for heroin. The role of
these
substituted drugs is not to remove the problem drug, but to counteract
symptoms which may result from its withdrawal – such as fits in alcoholics
and muscle cramps in heroin addicts.

It is worth noting that both these substitute drugs are also ‘toxic’ in
overdose, and both are also associated with problems of long-term
dependence. The conviction on 17 December of Kathleen McCluskey, from
Cambridge, for the manslaughter of two men (she was accused of killing two
more and of attempting to do the same to a fifth) by administering
methadone
to them confirms the lethality of this drug (2).

The concept of detox is most strained when it is applied to cocaine.
Cocaine
produces a very rapid effect (a major part of its appeal) and it is also
rapidly cleared (requiring frequently repeated doses for those habituated
to
its use). However, unlike heroin, it does not require increasing doses to
produce the same effect, so it does not produce a characteristic physical
dependency.

But whereas heroin can be replaced with methadone, no drug has been found
to
substitute for cocaine. Despite a vast amount of research, mainly in the
USA, and experimentation with numerous drugs, including anti-depressants,
anti-convulsants, opiate antagonists and beta-blockers, nothing seems to
work. As one recent account by Max Daly in the UK Guardian concluded:
‘there
is currently no strong evidence to support the general use of medicines as
a
way to ease withdrawal, reduce cocaine craving or promote abstinence.’ (3).
A survey by the Royal College of Psychiatrists came to the same conclusion
(4).

The solution recommended by Max Daly was that cocaine addicts should be
‘placed on a residential “detox” programme’. The National Treatment Agency
(NTA) is piloting 10 such schemes in the New Year. What is the nature of
the
detox treatment on offer? According to the NTA chief executive Paul Hayes,
the key is ‘cognitive behavioural approaches, particularly around relapse
prevention and consolidating people’s motivation’.

The schemes aim to provide ‘a structured series of counselling, group
therapy and relapse prevention programmes’. Such is the fluidity of
concepts
in this therapeutic universe that ‘detox’ has metamorphosed into ‘rehab’.

‘Rehab’

‘The belief that one is powerless and that one’s actions are somehow
controlled by forces other than one’s own choices is discouraging and
demoralising.’ (5)

The concept of rehabilitation once meant restoring to their previous
condition those whose standing in society had been impaired by injury or
illness or some other misfortune (including their own deviant behaviour).
In
its modern form, shortened in letters, but – as the case of Mark Gale
indicates – not necessarily in duration, rehab does not seek to restore the
status quo ante. It aims to effect a transition from dependence on drugs to
dependence on some form of professional therapeutic intervention.

Programmes of residential rehabilitation emerged out of the therapeutic
community movement that flourished in the USA in the 1960s. One of the
earliest therapeutic communities for drug addicts was Synanon, set up by
the
charismatic Charles Dederich in California (6). Synanon pioneered a
confrontational, hierarchical approach that assumed that drug addicts had
intrinsic – and possibly intractable – personality defects that needed to
be
challenged through long-term intensive therapy. Membership involved
surrendering all personal rights and being treated as a child not allowed
to
make personal decisions. Treatment involved forceful re-education and
structured humiliation.

Synanon became notorious when Dederich became obsessed with the notion that
clients who left the community were betraying him. He employed a security
force to coerce clients into staying and was ultimately convicted for
placing a rattlesnake in the mailbox of a lawyer representing dissident
clients (7). In his book The Meaning of Addiction, Stanton Peele notes that
former Dederich supporters, including celebrities such as Jane Fonda,
claimed that Dederich’s actions violated the Synanon philosophy. ‘In fact’,
Peele comments, ‘his response was the natural consequence of the Synanon
credo that membership in the community is a lifetime proposition’ (8).

A wide range of secular and religious organisations now offer residential
rehab programmes on the therapeutic community model. Some are more
autocratic, some more democratic; some insist on abstinence from forbidden
substances, others take a more liberal approach. But they share a
commitment
to communal living, group and individual therapy, and shared domestic and
leisure activities. A survey by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2000
noted that there were more than 100 centres in the UK offering residential
rehab; the figure is now certainly higher (9).

Given the popularity of the therapeutic approach pioneered by Alcoholics
Anonymous (AA) in contemporary rehab programmes, it merits a brief
discussion. After the end of Prohibition in the USA in the 1930s, the AA
movement combined the evangelical fervour of the Temperance campaign with
the modern theory that alcoholism was a disease rather than a moral
failing.
The first two of the now-famous ’12 steps’ through which AA guides its
adherents to sobriety require that they admit ‘powerlessness’ over alcohol
and submit themselves to ‘a Power’ greater than themselves (six of the
steps
refer to the deity).

For AA, alcoholism is a life-long illness against which only total
abstinence can prevail, in an indefinite process of recovery. As Stanton
Peele, a veteran campaigner against the AA approach in the USA, observes,
the style of AA groups is derived from the Protestant revival meeting,
‘where the sinner seeks salvation through personal testimony, public
contrition, and submission to a higher power’ (echoes of this style are
apparent in the testimony of Mark Gale, quoted above) (10).

Through a combination of skilful self-promotion, endorsement by the medical
and psychiatric professions and encouragement from state authorities, AA
has
become a major influence in the USA – and in other Western countries. Its
approach has spread far beyond alcohol to other areas of addiction,
including sex and gambling, and, of course, through Narcotics Anonymous
(NA), to drugs.

A patient of mine was recently admitted – at the expense of the health
authority – to a residential rehab programme at a clinic that describes
itself as ‘one of the leading centres in Europe’. According to the clinic
letter, she sought ‘treatment for chemical dependency on cannabis, cocaine
and ecstasy’ (though, in pharmacological terms, none of these drugs induces
chemical dependency). The centre’s prospectus outlines its theory of
addiction: ‘We believe that addiction to alcohol and drugs (chemical
dependency) is a chronic, progressive, primary and incurable disease, not a
problem of morals or willpower. The disease, if left unchecked, will prove
terminal.’

The clinic provides five phases of treatment based on the AA model: ‘the
most important and difficult phase of the treatment is to break through the
patient’s denial.’ Yet, ‘once patients have accepted they have a disease
they are able to progress through the programme to begin their recovery’.
During treatment, my patient ‘began to accept powerlessness and
unmanageability and how this relates to the use of chemicals’. After eight
weeks she was discharged home with recommendations that she maintain ‘total
abstinence from alcohol and all mood-altering substances’, that she attend
regular meetings of AA and NA and that she receive ‘aftercare follow-up’ at
the clinic’s own ‘aftercare unit’. She relapsed shortly afterwards.

‘Treatment works’?

‘Many people who oppose the ‘war on drugs’ say that the ‘solution’ to the
‘problem’ is ‘treatment’. This is baloney. Addiction treatment is a scam.’
(11)

The phrase ‘treatment works’ is repeated like a mantra in the government’s
‘Updated Drug Strategy’. Everybody in the world of drug policy is desperate
to believe that it is true. Indeed it is supported by evidence from
research
that is either carried out directly by government agencies (such as the
National Treatment Outcomes Research Study) or commissioned by them. But
are
such studies reliable? Here the British authorities might learn from the
(vast) experience of the USA in this field.

Research on the efficacy of treatment programmes for problems of addiction
in the USA follows a now-familiar pattern. This begins when promoters of a
new scheme or programme claim dramatic successes (often accompanied by
media
and celebrity endorsements). Early studies, often influenced by the
enthusiasm of the promoters and the zeal of those they have cured, tend to
confirm impressive results. Later, when the publicity had died down and
independent researchers take a more dispassionate view of the outcomes of
treatment over a longer period, the extravagant claims cannot be sustained.

Writing 25 years ago, Griffith Edwards, one of the leading British
authorities on alcoholism, summed up the problem: ‘It is not only that the
research literature is poor in reports which suggest that any particular
treatment is advantageous; on the contrary, it is rich in reports which
demonstrate that a given treatment is no better than another.’ (12) This
does not mean that nobody benefits from treatment. It is simply that they
do
not seem to do so at any higher rate than without treatment. As Jeffrey
Schaler, a trenchant critic of these methods, puts it: ‘One treatment tends
to be just about as effective as any other treatment, which is just about
as
effective as no treatment at all.’ (13) Both Schaler and Peele provide
examples that substantiate these conclusions.

In his book The Therapeutic State, another American critic, James Nolan,
presents a detailed account of the drug courts in Dade County, Florida
(13).
These courts pioneered the diversion of drug abusers from the criminal
justice system into treatment programmes, developing a model that has been
taken up widely in the USA – and now features prominently in British drug
policy. Nolan shows that the claims for the success of these programmes
have
not been borne out by independent scrutiny. He reveals how the redefinition
of goals and a number of statistical scams have contributed to the
impression that ‘treatment works’.

A recent British account draws together the results of a number of studies
of long-term patterns of heroin use (14). These reveal that many users
spontaneously give up the drug of their own accord, without benefit of
detox, rehab or any other professional intervention. The authors reckon
that
‘at least five to 10 percent manage this every year’ and estimate that the
average length of a ‘serious heroin-using career is about 15 to 20 years’.

They emphasise that ‘this figure is independent of treatment’: ‘There is no
evidence to date that any form of treatment makes any difference to length
of heroin use.’ They conclude that ‘people give up when they are ready to
do
so. Events in their lives are much more important in making this decision
than anything that occurs in the clinic’.

The dangers of detox/rehab

‘Rehabilitation is shite; sometimes ah think ah’d rather be banged up.
Rehabilitation means the surrender ay the self’, wrote Irvine Welsh in
Trainspotting (15)

If the best that can be said of the detox/rehab approach is that it is
ineffective, the more serious charge against it is that it reinforces a
concept of addiction that is degrading to people with drug problems and
results in the further diminution of their autonomy.

Behind the manifold absurdities of ‘detox’ lies a conception of drugs as an
autonomous malign power over individuals and society. This tendency to make
drugs a fetish pervades the government’s ‘Updated Drug Strategy’, which
refers to the ‘damage caused by drugs’ to communities and to the need to
‘protect young people from drugs’.

But drugs are inanimate material; they have no will or power of their own.
As Schaler observes, ‘drugs don’t cause addiction’: people choose to use
them for a variety of reasons, often to help them cope with problems of
living (even though the costs may appear to exceed the benefits). Stanton
Peele and Archie Brodsky insist that ‘it is important to place addictive
habits in their proper context, as part of people’s lives, their
personalities, their relationships, their environments, their perspectives’
(16).

The preoccupation with the supposedly objective ‘toxic’ character of drugs,
and the notion of addiction as a disease, leave the subjectivity of the
drug
user out of the picture. Yet as Peele and Brodsky emphasise, any attempt to
influence addictive behaviour must take into account the wider realities of
the life of the individual in society. It is only as targets of the ‘war on
drugs’ that drug users come into focus: it is of course impossible to wage
war against pharmaceuticals, only against those who use them.

Though the AA’s 12-step approach has crossed the Atlantic, it is
regrettable
that its critics are not yet widely known in Britain: as a result, rehab
clinics using these techniques have become widely established with
virtually
no public controversy.

Peele and Brodksy summarise the flaws of the AA model as follows: ‘it is
‘religious and dogmatic’, demanding strict adherence to the group policy
and
not allowing personal choices or individual variations; it ‘undermines
individual confidence’ by insisting on members’ weaknesses and predicting
the worst outcomes for those who violate group policies; it reinforces the
‘addict identity’ and discourages people from emerging out of it; it
focuses
on the addiction and the group itself, ignoring the quality of members’
lives outside the group. (17)

The authors do not deny that AA groups have proven effective for some
people. But the basic premise of AA – that the individual is powerless and
should seek to replace the control of one external force (drugs) with
another (God, or, in the interim, the group) – can only intensify the loss
of autonomy that leads to drug abuse in the first place.

No doubt some rehab programmes reject the AA model. But by their very
nature, residential schemes isolate the drug user from the context in which
the problem has arisen. The intensity and intimacy of relations established
among members of the therapeutic group – and between clients and
therapists,
is likely to reinforce the client’s isolation from society. It is not
surprising that residents quickly become drug-free in their communal home –
or that they quickly relapse on leaving it. Though this is clearly why
there
is such an emphasis on ‘aftercare’ and ‘follow-up’, it also indicates the
client’s continuing dependency on the therapeutic relationship forged in
rehab.

The trend for drug users to be mandated to attend detox/rehab programmes,
by
the police, the courts, occupational health services, reflects the
authoritarian dynamic behind the therapeutic face of official drug policy.
The therapeutic approach is not an alternative to the criminal justice
approach to drug abuse, but proceeds in tandem with it. And, whereas a
prison sentence comes to an end, therapy goes on for ever.

But surely it is better to be dependent on therapy than to be hooked on
heroin? Perhaps, but better still to live an independent life, free of both
drugs and therapists.

Dr Michael Fitzpatrick is the author of The Tyranny of Health: Doctors and
the Regulation of Lifestyle, Routledge, 2000 (buy this book from Amazon
(UK)
or Amazon (USA)), and a contributor to Alternative Medicine: Should We
Swallow It? Hodder & Stoughton, 2002 (buy this book from Amazon (UK).

Read on:

spiked-issue: Drink and drugs

(1) Guardian, 11 December

(2) ‘Black Widow’ killed two with methadone, Guardian, 18 December 2002

(3) Rocky road, Guardian, 23 October 2002

(4) Royal College of Psychiatrists, Drugs: Dilemmas and Choices, Gaskell,
2000, p176

(5) Jeffrey A Schaler, Addiction is a Choice, Open Court, 2000, p40

(6) Tom Carnath and Ian Smith, Heroin Century, Routledge, 2002, p 159

(7) Stanton Peele, The Meaning of Addiction: an unconventional view, Jossey
Bass, 1985, p144

(8) Stanton Peele, The Meaning of Addiction: an unconventional view, Jossey
Bass, 1985

(9) Royal College of Psychiatrists, Drugs: Dilemmas and Choices, Gaskell,
2000, p162

(10) Stanton Peele, The Meaning of Addiction: an unconventional view,
Jossey
Bass, 1985, p31

(11) Jeffrey A Schaler, Addiction is a Choice, Open Court, 2000, p 141

(12) Quoted by Jeffrey A Schaler, Addiction is a Choice, Open Court, 2000,
p44

(13) James Nolan, The Therapeutic State: justifying government at century’s
end, New York University Press, 1998

(14) Tom Carnath and Ian Smith, Heroin Century, Routledge, 2002, p171

(15) Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Minerva 1993 , 1993, p181

(16) T Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky, The Truth About Addiction and
Recovery, Fireside, 1992; p42

(17) Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky, The Truth About Addiction and
Recovery, Fireside, 1992, p 314

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From: GM40JM98@aol.com
Subject: [ibogaine] Stop my ibogaine mail/2nd request!
Date: December 28, 2002 at 6:05:23 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

From: Xiang Lee Chen <xiangleechen@yahoo.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] ibogaine question seattle
Date: December 27, 2002 at 8:52:01 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I have read this list for some week, these are
questions I sent in email and did not receive a reply
I don’t know if it worked or not but if you could
reply please this is to Patrick Kroupa.

I understand most about ibogaine or what is known up
until now. I see mostly drug addicts who are from the
street level and had different exposure to persons at
the harm reduction conference from different
background.

what I have read on mindvox answers some questions in
parts but it’s not a sensibile whole. You are very
very smart and write extremely well but it is like you
take pages and re arrange them in no right order. I
cannot follow, I think this is intentional but I don’t
understand mindvox at all except art, not followable
information

My questions please.

At Seattle when asked about the 12 steps you gave a
nice reply and said that upward of 50% of addicted
persons who take ibogaine used the 12 steps. In this
issue of heroin times you are very negative about 12
steps. I know you do not use them but you gave very
nice reply at talk, then wrote a article which
completely invalidates them. I don’t understand.

In JAMA article you are quoted as saying that on
ibogaine you “went to hell and got killed 1000 times”
which is same as you said at talk when you did
ibogaines to detox from drugs, but at your talk you
gave very dark experiences but it was very funny not
like you would not do ibogaine again, you said you
will do ibogaine again at talk. You also said ibogaine
very mild, not near as strong as LSD.

Thanks for talk and your time, for me you made it much
eaisier to understand difference between ultra rapid
and other detox and what ibogaine feel like, but you
confuse me with 12 step and if you like ibogaine or
not.

Thank you again

Xiang Chen
http://www.dom.washington.edu/sparx/

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From: “Joshua Tinnin” <krinklyfig@myrealbox.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] Fw: ReconsiDer Tidbit: Treatment Works… or does it?
Date: December 27, 2002 at 7:37:33 PM EST
To: <ibogaine@lists.calyx.nl>, “Ibogaine” <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

—– Original Message —–
From: ReconsiDer

reconsiDer: TIDBIT

We’d all like to believe that the “solution” to our country’s drug problems
lies in treatment rather than prison but does it? We know the problems with
coerced treatment, but what about voluntary treatment… the “treatment on
demand” that so many of us call for, does that work? A British doctor
questions the whole idea of treatment in this interesting piece below.

The Rehab Don’t Work

19 December 2002

by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick

‘”No way could I have done this without detox and rehab” says Gale, 29. “I’d
probably be dead or in jail. I’d totally lost control of my life and hit
rock bottom. I’d say I was suicidal.”‘ (1)

Mark Gale was one of the first residents of the Oxford Drugs Recovery
Project, which provides accommodation and drug treatment for homeless drug
addicts. He spent three months on a ‘maintenance’ dose of methadone, then
underwent gradual withdrawal with reducing doses of methadone over the next
month. During this time he attended two therapy groups a day, had one-to-one
counselling and took part in social activities with other residents.

This was a ‘stepping stone’ to a six-month residential rehabilitation
programme in London, followed by three-months aftercare to accompany his
move into supported housing near the rehabilitation centre.

The problem identified in this article is that ‘Gale is one of the lucky
ones’: services for detox and rehab are available for only a small
proportion of homeless drug abusers. The author welcomes recent government
proposals for a dramatic increase in the provision of treatment services of
this sort.

Indeed, ‘detox’ and ‘rehab’ were the central themes of the ‘Updated Drug
Strategy’ launched by home secretary David Blunkett on 30 November. Though
the government has been widely criticised over some aspects of its drug
policy (such as its relaxation of measures against cannabis and its
endorsement of the prescription of heroin by doctors), even its staunchest
critics welcome the new report’s emphasis on treatment.

The key shift signalled by the promotion of ‘detox and rehab’ is away from a
‘law and order’ approach to the drug problem towards a new therapeutic
strategy, emphasising education, treatment and support. (It is not
surprising that Keith Hellawell, the drug tsar, had to go: New Labour’s
crusade against drugs needs a social worker or a counsellor, not a
policeman, as its symbolic head.) ‘Detox and rehab’ now go together like
‘rum and coke’, but what do they mean?

‘Detox’

The use of the term ‘detoxification’ in relation to the problems of drug
addiction appears in many ways idiosyncratic. It was used in the past to
refer to the process of removing some poisonous substance from the body. But
the substances from which people now seek to be ‘detoxed’ – alcohol, heroin,
cocaine – are not poisons. Indeed they all have therapeutic uses as well as
a range of familiar beneficial effects. It is true that they may all be
harmful in excessive or habitual use, but that is true of most medications.

Whereas the traditional process of detoxification was limited to the removal
of the toxic substance from the system, this is only a small part of the
aims of the modern detox. Drugs of abuse, such as heroin and cocaine, tend
to have a short duration of action and are cleared from the body within
hours (the same is true of alcohol). Indeed this rapidity of effect and
clearance is linked to their tendency to induce dependency: users seek to
maintain or repeat the high by further ingestion. (This is also why people
tend not to get addicted to anti-depressants, which take effect over weeks
rather than hours.)

Modern detox does nothing to accelerate the – already rapid – clearance of
drugs from the body. The distinctive feature of contemporary detox regimes
is that, rather than simply removing one drug, they tend to replace it with
another. Thus alcohol is commonly replaced with a benzodiazepine (such as
chlordiazepoxide) and methadone is substituted for heroin. The role of these
substituted drugs is not to remove the problem drug, but to counteract
symptoms which may result from its withdrawal – such as fits in alcoholics
and muscle cramps in heroin addicts.

It is worth noting that both these substitute drugs are also ‘toxic’ in
overdose, and both are also associated with problems of long-term
dependence. The conviction on 17 December of Kathleen McCluskey, from
Cambridge, for the manslaughter of two men (she was accused of killing two
more and of attempting to do the same to a fifth) by administering methadone
to them confirms the lethality of this drug (2).

The concept of detox is most strained when it is applied to cocaine. Cocaine
produces a very rapid effect (a major part of its appeal) and it is also
rapidly cleared (requiring frequently repeated doses for those habituated to
its use). However, unlike heroin, it does not require increasing doses to
produce the same effect, so it does not produce a characteristic physical
dependency.

But whereas heroin can be replaced with methadone, no drug has been found to
substitute for cocaine. Despite a vast amount of research, mainly in the
USA, and experimentation with numerous drugs, including anti-depressants,
anti-convulsants, opiate antagonists and beta-blockers, nothing seems to
work. As one recent account by Max Daly in the UK Guardian concluded: ‘there
is currently no strong evidence to support the general use of medicines as a
way to ease withdrawal, reduce cocaine craving or promote abstinence.’ (3).
A survey by the Royal College of Psychiatrists came to the same conclusion
(4).

The solution recommended by Max Daly was that cocaine addicts should be
‘placed on a residential “detox” programme’. The National Treatment Agency
(NTA) is piloting 10 such schemes in the New Year. What is the nature of the
detox treatment on offer? According to the NTA chief executive Paul Hayes,
the key is ‘cognitive behavioural approaches, particularly around relapse
prevention and consolidating people’s motivation’.

The schemes aim to provide ‘a structured series of counselling, group
therapy and relapse prevention programmes’. Such is the fluidity of concepts
in this therapeutic universe that ‘detox’ has metamorphosed into ‘rehab’.

‘Rehab’

‘The belief that one is powerless and that one’s actions are somehow
controlled by forces other than one’s own choices is discouraging and
demoralising.’ (5)

The concept of rehabilitation once meant restoring to their previous
condition those whose standing in society had been impaired by injury or
illness or some other misfortune (including their own deviant behaviour). In
its modern form, shortened in letters, but – as the case of Mark Gale
indicates – not necessarily in duration, rehab does not seek to restore the
status quo ante. It aims to effect a transition from dependence on drugs to
dependence on some form of professional therapeutic intervention.

Programmes of residential rehabilitation emerged out of the therapeutic
community movement that flourished in the USA in the 1960s. One of the
earliest therapeutic communities for drug addicts was Synanon, set up by the
charismatic Charles Dederich in California (6). Synanon pioneered a
confrontational, hierarchical approach that assumed that drug addicts had
intrinsic – and possibly intractable – personality defects that needed to be
challenged through long-term intensive therapy. Membership involved
surrendering all personal rights and being treated as a child not allowed to
make personal decisions. Treatment involved forceful re-education and
structured humiliation.

Synanon became notorious when Dederich became obsessed with the notion that
clients who left the community were betraying him. He employed a security
force to coerce clients into staying and was ultimately convicted for
placing a rattlesnake in the mailbox of a lawyer representing dissident
clients (7). In his book The Meaning of Addiction, Stanton Peele notes that
former Dederich supporters, including celebrities such as Jane Fonda,
claimed that Dederich’s actions violated the Synanon philosophy. ‘In fact’,
Peele comments, ‘his response was the natural consequence of the Synanon
credo that membership in the community is a lifetime proposition’ (8).

A wide range of secular and religious organisations now offer residential
rehab programmes on the therapeutic community model. Some are more
autocratic, some more democratic; some insist on abstinence from forbidden
substances, others take a more liberal approach. But they share a commitment
to communal living, group and individual therapy, and shared domestic and
leisure activities. A survey by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2000
noted that there were more than 100 centres in the UK offering residential
rehab; the figure is now certainly higher (9).

Given the popularity of the therapeutic approach pioneered by Alcoholics
Anonymous (AA) in contemporary rehab programmes, it merits a brief
discussion. After the end of Prohibition in the USA in the 1930s, the AA
movement combined the evangelical fervour of the Temperance campaign with
the modern theory that alcoholism was a disease rather than a moral failing.
The first two of the now-famous ’12 steps’ through which AA guides its
adherents to sobriety require that they admit ‘powerlessness’ over alcohol
and submit themselves to ‘a Power’ greater than themselves (six of the steps
refer to the deity).

For AA, alcoholism is a life-long illness against which only total
abstinence can prevail, in an indefinite process of recovery. As Stanton
Peele, a veteran campaigner against the AA approach in the USA, observes,
the style of AA groups is derived from the Protestant revival meeting,
‘where the sinner seeks salvation through personal testimony, public
contrition, and submission to a higher power’ (echoes of this style are
apparent in the testimony of Mark Gale, quoted above) (10).

Through a combination of skilful self-promotion, endorsement by the medical
and psychiatric professions and encouragement from state authorities, AA has
become a major influence in the USA – and in other Western countries. Its
approach has spread far beyond alcohol to other areas of addiction,
including sex and gambling, and, of course, through Narcotics Anonymous
(NA), to drugs.

A patient of mine was recently admitted – at the expense of the health
authority – to a residential rehab programme at a clinic that describes
itself as ‘one of the leading centres in Europe’. According to the clinic
letter, she sought ‘treatment for chemical dependency on cannabis, cocaine
and ecstasy’ (though, in pharmacological terms, none of these drugs induces
chemical dependency). The centre’s prospectus outlines its theory of
addiction: ‘We believe that addiction to alcohol and drugs (chemical
dependency) is a chronic, progressive, primary and incurable disease, not a
problem of morals or willpower. The disease, if left unchecked, will prove
terminal.’

The clinic provides five phases of treatment based on the AA model: ‘the
most important and difficult phase of the treatment is to break through the
patient’s denial.’ Yet, ‘once patients have accepted they have a disease
they are able to progress through the programme to begin their recovery’.
During treatment, my patient ‘began to accept powerlessness and
unmanageability and how this relates to the use of chemicals’. After eight
weeks she was discharged home with recommendations that she maintain ‘total
abstinence from alcohol and all mood-altering substances’, that she attend
regular meetings of AA and NA and that she receive ‘aftercare follow-up’ at
the clinic’s own ‘aftercare unit’. She relapsed shortly afterwards.

‘Treatment works’?

‘Many people who oppose the ‘war on drugs’ say that the ‘solution’ to the
‘problem’ is ‘treatment’. This is baloney. Addiction treatment is a scam.’
(11)

The phrase ‘treatment works’ is repeated like a mantra in the government’s
‘Updated Drug Strategy’. Everybody in the world of drug policy is desperate
to believe that it is true. Indeed it is supported by evidence from research
that is either carried out directly by government agencies (such as the
National Treatment Outcomes Research Study) or commissioned by them. But are
such studies reliable? Here the British authorities might learn from the
(vast) experience of the USA in this field.

Research on the efficacy of treatment programmes for problems of addiction
in the USA follows a now-familiar pattern. This begins when promoters of a
new scheme or programme claim dramatic successes (often accompanied by media
and celebrity endorsements). Early studies, often influenced by the
enthusiasm of the promoters and the zeal of those they have cured, tend to
confirm impressive results. Later, when the publicity had died down and
independent researchers take a more dispassionate view of the outcomes of
treatment over a longer period, the extravagant claims cannot be sustained.

Writing 25 years ago, Griffith Edwards, one of the leading British
authorities on alcoholism, summed up the problem: ‘It is not only that the
research literature is poor in reports which suggest that any particular
treatment is advantageous; on the contrary, it is rich in reports which
demonstrate that a given treatment is no better than another.’ (12) This
does not mean that nobody benefits from treatment. It is simply that they do
not seem to do so at any higher rate than without treatment. As Jeffrey
Schaler, a trenchant critic of these methods, puts it: ‘One treatment tends
to be just about as effective as any other treatment, which is just about as
effective as no treatment at all.’ (13) Both Schaler and Peele provide
examples that substantiate these conclusions.

In his book The Therapeutic State, another American critic, James Nolan,
presents a detailed account of the drug courts in Dade County, Florida (13).
These courts pioneered the diversion of drug abusers from the criminal
justice system into treatment programmes, developing a model that has been
taken up widely in the USA – and now features prominently in British drug
policy. Nolan shows that the claims for the success of these programmes have
not been borne out by independent scrutiny. He reveals how the redefinition
of goals and a number of statistical scams have contributed to the
impression that ‘treatment works’.

A recent British account draws together the results of a number of studies
of long-term patterns of heroin use (14). These reveal that many users
spontaneously give up the drug of their own accord, without benefit of
detox, rehab or any other professional intervention. The authors reckon that
‘at least five to 10 percent manage this every year’ and estimate that the
average length of a ‘serious heroin-using career is about 15 to 20 years’.

They emphasise that ‘this figure is independent of treatment’: ‘There is no
evidence to date that any form of treatment makes any difference to length
of heroin use.’ They conclude that ‘people give up when they are ready to do
so. Events in their lives are much more important in making this decision
than anything that occurs in the clinic’.

The dangers of detox/rehab

‘Rehabilitation is shite; sometimes ah think ah’d rather be banged up.
Rehabilitation means the surrender ay the self’, wrote Irvine Welsh in
Trainspotting (15)

If the best that can be said of the detox/rehab approach is that it is
ineffective, the more serious charge against it is that it reinforces a
concept of addiction that is degrading to people with drug problems and
results in the further diminution of their autonomy.

Behind the manifold absurdities of ‘detox’ lies a conception of drugs as an
autonomous malign power over individuals and society. This tendency to make
drugs a fetish pervades the government’s ‘Updated Drug Strategy’, which
refers to the ‘damage caused by drugs’ to communities and to the need to
‘protect young people from drugs’.

But drugs are inanimate material; they have no will or power of their own.
As Schaler observes, ‘drugs don’t cause addiction’: people choose to use
them for a variety of reasons, often to help them cope with problems of
living (even though the costs may appear to exceed the benefits). Stanton
Peele and Archie Brodsky insist that ‘it is important to place addictive
habits in their proper context, as part of people’s lives, their
personalities, their relationships, their environments, their perspectives’
(16).

The preoccupation with the supposedly objective ‘toxic’ character of drugs,
and the notion of addiction as a disease, leave the subjectivity of the drug
user out of the picture. Yet as Peele and Brodsky emphasise, any attempt to
influence addictive behaviour must take into account the wider realities of
the life of the individual in society. It is only as targets of the ‘war on
drugs’ that drug users come into focus: it is of course impossible to wage
war against pharmaceuticals, only against those who use them.

Though the AA’s 12-step approach has crossed the Atlantic, it is regrettable
that its critics are not yet widely known in Britain: as a result, rehab
clinics using these techniques have become widely established with virtually
no public controversy.

Peele and Brodksy summarise the flaws of the AA model as follows: ‘it is
‘religious and dogmatic’, demanding strict adherence to the group policy and
not allowing personal choices or individual variations; it ‘undermines
individual confidence’ by insisting on members’ weaknesses and predicting
the worst outcomes for those who violate group policies; it reinforces the
‘addict identity’ and discourages people from emerging out of it; it focuses
on the addiction and the group itself, ignoring the quality of members’
lives outside the group. (17)

The authors do not deny that AA groups have proven effective for some
people. But the basic premise of AA – that the individual is powerless and
should seek to replace the control of one external force (drugs) with
another (God, or, in the interim, the group) – can only intensify the loss
of autonomy that leads to drug abuse in the first place.

No doubt some rehab programmes reject the AA model. But by their very
nature, residential schemes isolate the drug user from the context in which
the problem has arisen. The intensity and intimacy of relations established
among members of the therapeutic group – and between clients and therapists,
is likely to reinforce the client’s isolation from society. It is not
surprising that residents quickly become drug-free in their communal home –
or that they quickly relapse on leaving it. Though this is clearly why there
is such an emphasis on ‘aftercare’ and ‘follow-up’, it also indicates the
client’s continuing dependency on the therapeutic relationship forged in
rehab.

The trend for drug users to be mandated to attend detox/rehab programmes, by
the police, the courts, occupational health services, reflects the
authoritarian dynamic behind the therapeutic face of official drug policy.
The therapeutic approach is not an alternative to the criminal justice
approach to drug abuse, but proceeds in tandem with it. And, whereas a
prison sentence comes to an end, therapy goes on for ever.

But surely it is better to be dependent on therapy than to be hooked on
heroin? Perhaps, but better still to live an independent life, free of both
drugs and therapists.

Dr Michael Fitzpatrick is the author of The Tyranny of Health: Doctors and
the Regulation of Lifestyle, Routledge, 2000 (buy this book from Amazon (UK)
or Amazon (USA)), and a contributor to Alternative Medicine: Should We
Swallow It? Hodder & Stoughton, 2002 (buy this book from Amazon (UK).

Read on:

spiked-issue: Drink and drugs

(1) Guardian, 11 December

(2) ‘Black Widow’ killed two with methadone, Guardian, 18 December 2002

(3) Rocky road, Guardian, 23 October 2002

(4) Royal College of Psychiatrists, Drugs: Dilemmas and Choices, Gaskell,
2000, p176

(5) Jeffrey A Schaler, Addiction is a Choice, Open Court, 2000, p40

(6) Tom Carnath and Ian Smith, Heroin Century, Routledge, 2002, p 159

(7) Stanton Peele, The Meaning of Addiction: an unconventional view, Jossey
Bass, 1985, p144

(8) Stanton Peele, The Meaning of Addiction: an unconventional view, Jossey
Bass, 1985

(9) Royal College of Psychiatrists, Drugs: Dilemmas and Choices, Gaskell,
2000, p162

(10) Stanton Peele, The Meaning of Addiction: an unconventional view, Jossey
Bass, 1985, p31

(11) Jeffrey A Schaler, Addiction is a Choice, Open Court, 2000, p 141

(12) Quoted by Jeffrey A Schaler, Addiction is a Choice, Open Court, 2000,
p44

(13) James Nolan, The Therapeutic State: justifying government at century’s
end, New York University Press, 1998

(14) Tom Carnath and Ian Smith, Heroin Century, Routledge, 2002, p171

(15) Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Minerva 1993 , 1993, p181

(16) T Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky, The Truth About Addiction and
Recovery, Fireside, 1992; p42

(17) Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky, The Truth About Addiction and
Recovery, Fireside, 1992, p 314

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From: Ustanova Iboga <Iboga@guest.arnes.si>
Subject: [ibogaine] changes
Date: December 27, 2002 at 4:49:10 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hi all,

there are some changes at
http://www.geocities.com/ibopictures/price.html

Marko

From: “steve diamond” <stevediamond79@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 26, 2002 at 9:58:55 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Brett,

When I got stuck up, they got my phone. Can you send your phone number to me? Tomorrow is the big day and my friend Herman may have to contact you.

Could you also send the instructions again? I’m pretty sure I have them saved but if you have them handy it would be nice.

Steve

From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:37:58 -0800 (PST)

Steve,

“stuck up at knife point ”

It is nice to see you are having such a good time,
“out there”…

“Today I had my worst day ever. ”

It seemed like a good day to me, you are lucky and
came off easy, it could have been much worse – ie you
could be in the Can or hurt…

“Maybe God is trying to tell me something.”

Nah, ya think? Anyway, we wouldn’t want your “last
days out there” to be all fun and glory, would we?
today was actually good for you (truth be told)?

“I don’t want to be sick over the holiday. I’ll be the
life of the fucking party”

Have fun and by the way, small amounts of ibogaine
might help you a bit if you don’t have your fix (don’t
mix ibo and opiates). A product called Rescue Remedy
can also help with the “stress”.

Now, during this process of “recovery”, when Ibogaine
gives you the opportunity, take it. When you think of
using again (and the thought will cross your mind),
remember this day, remember it could get worse,
remember being free from having to go through stuff
like this.

You had a good day my friend.

Brett

— steve diamond <stevediamond79@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I did not take it yet. I am going to do it Friday
> December 27. I wish it was
> today. Today I had my worst day ever. I got beat for
> over $100. I have to go
> out of town with my family. I don’t want to be sick
> over the holiday. I’ll
> be the life of the fucking party. Then I got stuck
> up at knife point and had
> my cell phone stolen. I tired to put up a fight but
> I was surrounded. They
> got the last of my cash and my phone. Maybe God is
> trying to tell me
> something. This life is insane. I wish I had never
> seen narcotics. I just
> need a clean start.
>
> I’ll let you know how my experience turns out.
>
> Steve Diamond
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: “steven hadley” <colohad5@hotmail.com>
> >Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
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<DIV></DIV>&gt;&gt;i took ibogaine in july i did not
feel right till october…..now
<DIV></DIV>&gt;&gt;it’s all
<DIV></DIV>&gt;&gt;good!!!!!! i was on 100 mgs. of
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I was wondering if you obtained your Ibo from a great
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what form, route of administration, results compared
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From: Dana Beal <dana@cures-not-wars.org>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fwd: JAMA: Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy
Date: December 26, 2002 at 10:51:15 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Thats quite an article. Good thing our Therapy House is up and running. CBC
National News is doing a piece on the Iboga Therapy House in the first week
of January.

Marc Emery
Iboga Therapy House

Note the credit the marijuana movement gets for ibo, not only in
describing me as a proponent of legalization, but in positioning you
so prominently in the piece as well. Everyone knows who Marc Emery
is. They have the leading edge of the marijuana movement actively
making the cure for hard drugs addiction available for addicts while
governments are hostile or indifferent at best.

We need more low-budget ibogaine forums in 40 to 50 major cities
around the globe. With Ibogaine the main hurdle is simply to get it
better known.

Do you think CBC news could put us into the piece to draw a contrast
between the relatively enlightened state of affairs in Canada and the
New Dark Ages in the U.S. under Ashcroft, Walters and G. W. Bush?

Dana/cnw

From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Reply to Brett and Curtis
Date: December 25, 2002 at 7:45:34 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

On [Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 05:43:20PM -0800], [crownofthorns@hushmail.com] wrote:

Curtis, what Jon wrote is exactly correct.  If it’s not working for you,
do some ibogaine, then try again.

Launch NetInfo / Select [Authenticate] (it will ask for the admin
password, this is YOUR pw, and it just runs the process as sudo) / go to
[Domain] / click [Security] / it’s de-greyed, you can enable/disable root
and change the pw’s around.

It ships this way because Apple prezoomz most of the people migrating to
OS/X are former Mac users, not unix geeks, and will thusly fuck everything
up if they’re using root.

Patrick

| Bro, thank you for that! But I’ve just tried it, it keeps those areas
| greyed out and will not let me click the controls to add the root pw.
| Sorry, I will take this off the list I know it doesn’t belong here!
|
| Peace out and happy holidays!
| Curtis
|
| On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 07:06:17 -0800 Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu> wrote:
| >On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 crownofthorns@hushmail.com wrote:
| >
| >> Earth to patrick, read your mail, or please answer: how do I start
| >root on osX? I don’t understand how a unix machine can run without
| >root, it’s in netinfo but I can’t change the password, how does
| >it run installs without root all it ever asks for is my password?
| >There are a lot of answers to this question online bro, but none
| >of them are working on osX 10.2.3
| >
| >hey, here’s some info from developer.apple.com, hope it helps…
| >
| >
| >Mac OS X ships with the root account disabled. This is an intentional
| >security feature to limit the support problems that could arise
| >from
| >casual use of root. However, it is sometimes necessary for developers
| >to
| >switch to the root user, especially when developing kernel extensions.
| >
| >There are a couple of ways to enable root access. One is to use
| >NetInfo
| >Manager to permanently enable the root account. This approach is
| >best on
| >development systems where there is a frequent need for root access.
| >Detailed instructions are given in the Kernel Extensions tutorial
| >document
| >in
| >/Developer/Documentation/Kernel/Tutorials/KEXTutorials/2Kernel/Test_the_Kernel_Extension.html.
| >
| >The second approach is best for those situations where you need
| >temporary
| >access to root, such as on a system you wish to keep secure. In
| >this case,
| >use the sudo command in Terminal to either execute a single command
| >as
| >root or to get a root login prompt. Details are in the man page
| >for sudo:
| >type “man sudo” in Terminal to see the documentation.
| >
| >
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From: MARC <marc420emery@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fwd: JAMA: Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy
Date: December 25, 2002 at 7:50:05 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Thats quite an article. Good thing our Therapy House is up and running. CBC
National News is doing a piece on the Iboga Therapy House in the first week
of January.

Marc Emery
Iboga Therapy House

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Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 8:20 AM
Subject: [ibogaine] Fwd: JAMA: Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy

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Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy
by Brian Vastag
Journal of the American Medical Association
Vol. 288 No. 24, pp. 3096-3101, December 25, 2002
© 2002 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.

Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy

New York — Some drugs are made in laboratories. Others, like
penicillin, are discovered by accident. And then there’s ibogaine, a
sacramental substance from West Africa that some say interrupts heroin,
cocaine, and other addictions. Over the past 40 years, the tale of
ibogaine’s flirtation with legitimacy boasts more twists than the roots
of Tabernanthe iboga, the shrublike source of ibogaine.

After riding the backpacks of Westerners to the radical 1960s New York
City underground, ibogaine rose from a counterculture star to a serious
project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 1995,
after spending several million dollars on laboratory and animal studies,
the NIH decided not to pursue ibogaine development. Since then, patent
disputes have divided the drug’s champions; a growing network of
informal clinics has sprung up; and pharmacologists have discovered that
ibogaine works on the brain in a manner unlike that of any other known
drug (see sidebar 1).

After all this, ibogaine and two of its derivatives appear closer to
legitimacy now than ever before. In 1998, a University of Miami Medical
Center researcher opened an ibogaine clinic on the Caribbean island of
St Kitt’s. Although the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had
approved human trials with ibogaine, Deborah Mash, PhD, associate
professor of neurology and pharmacology at Miami, could not secure
funding for a stateside study. Instead, she solicited private investment
and won favor from the government of St Kitt’s, where a team of
physician counselors and addiction specialists now collect data that
Mash hopes will cement support for US trials of ibogaine or its
metabolite, noribogaine.

Tabernanthe iboga, the West African source of ibogaine, used by some to
treat addiction.

Meanwhile, another pharmacologist, Stanley Glick, MD, PhD, director of
the Center for Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience at Albany Medical
Center, has painstakingly moved a derivative of ibogaine toward its own
clinical trial. After 12 years of basic research on scores of molecular
variations on the ibogaine theme, Glick recently forged an agreement
that represents his best chance for a clinical trial. Signed in November
2002, the contract obligates investors to raise $5 million within 2
years to fund the first human studies of 18-methoxycoronaridine (18-MC).

But even as ibogaine’s supporters sniff success, they worry that the
drug’s origins will continue to stunt its development. “It’s been a
continuous battle for respect,” said Glick. “Ibogaine has really become
notorious because it didn’t originate in a lab, but in the
counterculture.”

Mash is concerned that burgeoning unsanctioned use will compromise years
of laboratory and clinical work. “We’ve got this explosion of
underground clinics, and I’m scared that everything I work for is going
to go right down the toilet,” Mash said in a recent telephone interview.
As an endowed, tenured professor, Mash has all the right credentials: a
29-page curriculum vitae listing 155 publications; a history of millions
of dollars in federal grants; a spot at the table of several National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) review committees; and a reputation as a
brilliant brain scientist.

And yet, Mash feels that ibogaine’s tumultuous history (see sidebar 2)
has isolated her. “I’m the only one [doing clinical research],” she
said. “I figured, somebody ought to test the damn thing. You know,
either it works or it doesn’t.”

SCIENTISTS LOOK INTO USE

In 1999, Kenneth Alper, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at
New York University School of Medicine, hosted the first serious
scientific conference devoted to ibogaine. He and Glick compiled the
proceedings into a thick volume (Alkaloids Chem Biol. 2001;56:1-330). In
the preface, Geoffrey Cordell, PhD, a pharmacology researcher at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, writes that while ibogaine probably
“won’t save the world from addiction,” it deserves a “prominent position
in the list of anti-addictive strategies” under study.

Animal data support Cordell’s conclusion. Dozens of articles referenced
in the conference proceedings report reductions in self-administration
of morphine, heroin, cocaine, alcohol, and nicotine in rodents given
ibogaine. The effects last from 1 to 5 days, depending on dosage and
other variables. Noribogaine and 18-MC produced similar results.

That means the central hurdle for ibogaine’s supporters is amassing
compelling human data. While unknowable scores of addicts continue
ingesting ibogaine hydrochloridea purified powder — or ibogaa
whole-plant extract containing a dozen or more active alkaloids — few
trained researchers witness the events.

“There’s basically one big uncontrolled experiment going on out there,”
said Frank Vocci, PhD, head of antiaddiction drug development at NIDA.

Consequently, supporters have had to rely on anecdotal accounts. At a
pivotal 1995 NIDA meeting, Howard Lotsof, credited with discovering
ibogaine’s purported antiaddictive potential, presented a collection of
case reports. He reported that 10 (19%) of 52 treatments led to
cessation of heroin or cocaine use for a year or longer; 15 (29%)
treatments led to 2 months or less of sobriety. The remaining treatments
were followed by sober periods between 2 months and 1 year. Despite
Lotsof’s report, the NIDA peer review panel voted nine to four to reject
a clinical grant application from Mash.

She regrouped and eventually opened the Healing Visions clinic in St
Kitt’s. In 2000, Mash and colleagues published the data from 27 cocaine-
or heroin-addicted patients treated at the center (Ann N Y Acad Sci.
2000:914;394-401). The researchers conclude that “self-reported
depressive symptoms and craving were significantly decreased” at 1 month
after stopping treatment with ibogaine. They also note that ibogaine
treatment “decreased participants’ desire and intention to use heroin.”
Mash is now analyzing safety and efficacy data for 257 patients.

SAFETY CONCERNS

At Healing Visions, patients receive what Mash calls “state-of-the-art
care,” with round-the-clock monitoring and access to the latest
emergency equipment. But individuals who seek out ibogaine in other
settings receive no such supervision. “It’s caveat emptor,” said NIDA’s
Vocci.

Vocci also said that safety was “not the main concern” at the pivotal
1995 NIDA meeting, which he chaired. However, that review panel did cite
safety issues. One reviewer wrote that the drug’s toxicology profile was
“less than ideal,” with bradycardia leading the list of worrisome
adverse effects.

In fact, between 1989 and 2000, three reports of patients dying after
taking ibogaine surfaced, sparking a swirl of questions about the drug’s
safety. The first death, of a 40-year-old woman in France, apparently
stemmed from preexisting heart disease. A lack of medical information
hindered investigations into the other two deaths and led to conflicting
conclusions about whether ibogaine was to blame.

In a 1996 radio interview with WBAI in New York City, Mash said that, in
the French case, the patient “was very sick, she had a very sick heart
and she shouldn’t have been given ibogaine under any circumstances. . .
.” And in the second death, “we don’t completely know the mechanism of
lethality, but it did appear to be respiratory collapse in this case.
The bottom line is that you need to be under medical supervision. . . .
Ibogaine is an important drug but it is not to be used outside the
medical establishment, not ever, ever, ever.”

Despite Mash’s warnings, unsanctioned ibogaine use appears to be
soaring. A sophisticated “underground railroad” of sorts has sprung up
in New York, spearheaded by Dana Beal, a long-time marijuana
legalization advocate. When heroin- or cocaine-addicted individuals
develop an interest in ibogaine, they often call Beal, who acts as
intake counselor.

During an interview in his home, the one-time headquarters of the
radical 1960s Yipster Times newspaper, Beal said that if he thinks
someone is a good candidate for ibogaine, he helps arrange a visit to an
informal clinic.

The best known operation, according to Beal, is in the Netherlands at
the Amsterdam home of Sara Glatt, who practices various types of
alternative medicine. Glatt has treated some 85 people during the last 3
years. When an addicted individual arrives, Glatt asks for a history of
heart problems or bad experiences with psychedelic drugs. Judging from
that information and the individual’s weight, Glatt provides between 2 g
and 6 g of powdered iboga, the whole-plant extract that contains at
least a dozen active ingredients in addition to ibogaine.

Whereas Glatt charges upward of $1000 for her services, the newest
clinic, in Vancouver, British Columbia, offers free ibogaine. The
clinic’s founder, Marc Emery, won 2000 of 140 000 votes in the 2002
Vancouver mayoral election running on a platform of open access to
ibogaine. He recently solicited an ibogaine e-mail list for feedback on
a proposed treatment regimen.

Lotsof, on the other hand, has already published a rigorous protocol
(Lotsof H, Wachtel B. Manual for Ibogaine Therapy: Screening, Safety,
Monitoring, and Aftercare, First Revision. Published online. Available
at http://www.ibogaine.org/manual.html. Accessed November 26, 2002). In
the preface to the first revision, Lotsof and coauthor Boaz Wachtel
write that the manual is “intended for lay-healers who have little or no
medical experience, but who are nevertheless concerned with patient
safety and the outcome of ibogaine treatments.” The manual suggests
inclusion and exclusion criteria, ibogaine regimens and doses, and
considerations for posttreatment care. A naive physician would likely
accept it as a standard medical protocol.

Back in the realm of sanctioned drug development, Glick and Mash are now
focused on bringing their respective ibogaine derivatives into clinical
trials. “That’s certainly the way to go now,” said Vocci. Alper voiced a
similar opinion, saying that he views ibogaine as proof of concept that
the best hope for a therapeutic drug lies with ibogaine derivatives.
Glick, too, is certain that the FDA will never approve ibogaine. In
addition to safety concerns and the drug’s social history, the
hallucinogenic effects of ibogaine (see sidebar 1) could be problematic.

After NIDA rejected ibogaine clinical trials, both Mash and Glick struck
out with the pharmaceutical industry, which has been traditionally cool
to antiaddiction drugs. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of
America (PhRMA) reports that in 1999, for example, its roster of drug
giants had 10 antiaddiction agents in clinical trials. The same
companies had more than 400 cancer drugs in clinical development. When
asked to explain the disparity, Jeff Trewhitt, spokesman for PhRMA,
said, “We certainly don’t know a reason, unfortunately.”

But ibogaine researchers and others, including a spokeswoman for the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), say
that addiction stigma and low profit potential are keeping companies
away.

Whatever the case, the dearth of pharmaceutical and other treatments
means that the societal costs of addiction will continue to climb.
SAMHSA reports that in 2000, illicit drug addiction cost the United
States $160 billion in medical care, lost productivity, and crime and
incarceration, up from $117 billion in 1997. Illicit drug addiction is
here to stay.

So too, it appears, is ibogaine.

An Odd Drug

Other hallucinations passed before my eyesburning skulls and faces, the
figures of women in black dresses stretching out long white arms toward
me from the edges of my visionbut when I tried to speak of them, they
disappeared. Meanwhile, the iboga was making me sick. I fought back
waves of nausea. I wanted to reach the deeper visionary state, but I was
also afraid of the drug.
Journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, in Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic
Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism. New York, NY: Broadway
Books; 2002.

At low doses, ibogaine is a mild stimulant. At high doses, users report
deeply emotional visions, sometimes pleasant, sometimes harrowing.
Patrick Kroupa, who credits ibogaine with 3 years of sobriety after 15
years of addiction, said, “It was like dying and going to hell 1000
times.”

Whatever the subjective experience, pharmacologists have spent decades
puzzling out the brain effects of ibogaine. Their conclusion: it’s
unlike any other known drug. Kenneth Alper, PhD, assistant professor of
psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, said that the drug
appears to work on “every neurotransmitter system we know about.” It
binds to N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors and µ- and -opioid receptors;
all three play prominent roles in current theories of addiction.

Ibogaine also acts as an antidepressant by binding to serotonin
transporters, thereby increasing serotonin levels in the nucleus
accumbens. Evidence of impact on the dopamine and acetylcholine systems
is less compelling, but deserves consideration, said Alper (Alkaloids
Chem Biol. 2001;56:2-33).

Most recently, Stanley Glick, MD, PhD, published support for his theory
that ibogaine reduces drug-seeking behavior in rodents by blocking a3b4
nicotinic receptors (Eur J Pharmacol. 2002;438:99-105).

Meanwhile, Deborah Mash, PhD, a neuroscientist at University of Miami
Medical Center, is convinced that ibogaine is nothing but a short-acting
prodrug. It quickly metabolizes into noribogaine, she said, which boasts
a half-life so long that she has been unable to measure it. This
property, she believes, explains ibogaine’s purported ability to block
drug cravings for weeks or months (Alkaloids Chem Biol.
2001;56:79-113).B.V.

(Return to text.)

A Brief History of Ibogaine

1885: First published description of religious use of Tabernanthe iboga
in Gabon appears in France; it reports that initiates of the Bwiti
religion eat rootbark to induce visions and “meet their ancestors.”

1939: Sold in France as a stimulant until 1970.

1962: Howard Lotsof, a 19-year-old from Staten Island, receives ibogaine
from an LSD chemist and gives it to 19 other people. He later reports
that five of seven heroin and cocaine addicts in this group, including
himself, stop illicit drug use for up to 18 months and experience little
or no acute withdrawal.

1970: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies ibogaine as a
Schedule I drug, making it illegal. Belgium also outlaws ibogaine, but
today it remains legal in the rest of the world.

1985: Lotsof receives a US patent for use of ibogaine in opioid
withdrawal. Additional patents describing ibogaine treatment for cocaine
and other addictions follow.

1989: Ibogaine addiction treatment begins in informal clinics in the
Netherlands. By 2002, informal clinics have opened in the United
Kingdom, Canada, Slovenia, and Mexico.

1991: After intense pressure from activists, the National Institute on
Drug Abuse (NIDA) begins funding preclinical toxicology and other
laboratory research on ibogaine.

1993: The FDA approves a US clinical trial of ibogaine sponsored by
University of Miami neuroscientist Deborah Mash, PhD.

1995: NIDA review committee rejects funding for Mash’s clinical trial.

1999: Mash opens ibogaine clinic on Caribbean island of St Kitt’s. By
late 2002, she has collected safety and efficacy data on 257 addicted
patients.

2002: Long-running legal dispute between Lotsof and Mash ends with the
University of Miami winning patents for noribogaine, a metabolite of
ibogaine. Stanley Glick, MD, PhD, director of the Center for
Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience at Albany Medical Center, signs
contract to bring ibogaine derivative 18-MC into clinical trials.B.V.

(Return to text.)


Doug McVay
Editor, Drug War Facts
Research Director/Projects Coordinator
Common Sense for Drug Policy
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Think where men’s glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
— William Butler Yeats, “The Municipal Gallery Revisited”

From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Re: [vox] All The Nudes That’s Fit to Print…
Date: December 25, 2002 at 6:17:45 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

| On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 23:31:28 -0800 Day Brown <daybrown@ozarkisp.net> wrote:
| >
| >
| >G. Ratte’ wrote:
| >
| >>— Day Brown <daybrown@ozarkisp.net> wrote:
| >>weird.
| >>
| >Perhaps I can be more clear. It is instinctive, not conscious. But
| >Human
| >sex is pretty weird compared to all the other species which engage
| >in it
| >so much more for the sake of progeny, and so much less for any other
| >
| >reason. “Demonic Males” by Wrangham & Peterson, give a rundown on
| >the

<Etc, to forth and wit, more of this…>

| >rape. In the Bonobo, the positive re-inforcement of sex is used
| >to
| >reward and reassure, without any of the sexual behavior seen as
| >
| >indicative of control.
| >
| >Humans seem to vary between the two extremes. The fact that some
| >men
| >rely on images, rather than real females is indicative of their
| >ability
| >to objectify, which is what the alpha male does to others, for
| >otherwise, he’d feel the pain of his victim.

Day,

I haven’t actually read this thread, because I suspect it’s highly similar
to the 300 other mile long messages you’ve posted in this vein over the
last few months — which I think is a wonderful thing, lest someone
misunderstand.

You’re obviously a well-read, intelligent, and articulate human being, who
is Completely Fucking Crazy.  But that’s Just Fine, because you’ve found
your peer group.  Welcome home, it’s a pleasure to have you here Day, in
fact if you’re not already on crashtestdummies, I’m adding you, because
you obviously need to moderate a forum and help SPREAD your thoughts
around.  In fact it’s become completely obvious to me that you and Dennis
LaRock should co-host a Relationships forum; I think this’d be a beautiful
dynamic, and sumthin’ I’d actually read.

I just have this suspicion that it’s entirely possible you’re overlooking
one small detail in all these writings of yours — it’s called the
endocrine system; in particular this thing called testosterone.

Having a neverending circle-jerk full of random blips and spurts of
philosophical insight, is certainly something to do.  But mostly you’re
arguing with something that isn’t listening to you.

Here’s a neat little summary of the Whole Entire Human History.  If it
doesn’t make any sense, simply increase testosterone until it all snaps
into focus:

http://phantom.com/templates/tunez/

By the way, those wacky, lovable, positively reinforcing group-sex monkeys
called the Bonobo that people like to toss out there as an EXAMPLE of all
that is good in primates…  They’re nearly extinct.  Sorry Day, but
evolution sez’ noap, buh-bye.

To cop a line from the great philosopher-saint Homer Simpson, “D’oh!”

Merry Fucking Christmas,

Patrick

From: Dana Beal <dana@cures-not-wars.org>
Subject: [ibogaine] JAMA Credits Legalizers w. Ibogaine “Underground Railroad!”
Date: December 25, 2002 at 5:19:56 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Cc: dansmith@clark.net, lensman@stardrive.org, hward@wineshopper.com, DDanforbes@aol.com, daniel@breakingopenthehead.com, Mark@k-dunn.freeserve.co.uk, IMDJam@cs.com, gbekkum@mediaone.net, Gary@osborn-day.freeserve.co.uk, gschwart@u.arizona.edu, e-merrill2@ti.com, “Bob Ezergailis” <morpheal@bserv.com>, “cynthia ford” <maruta@wco.com>, “G. G. Ford” <swimp@shaw.ca>, <brumac@compuserve.com>, <yokatta@oxy.edu>, <kklingon@cwcom.net>, <cyrano@aqua.ocn.ne.jp>, “Adrian” <afme@ihug.co.nz>, dewatson@sunflower.com, CloudRider@aol.com, JagdishM@aol.com, phylegyas@hotmail.com, schwann@webtrance.co.za, ibogalab@hotmail.com, zentarot@hotmail.com, Paul DeRienzo <pdr@echonyc.com>, Stews@radiks.net, foozleman@worldnet.att.net, bmasel@tds.net, heff01@email.msn.com, kingfelix@mediaone.net, luxefair@bellsouth.net, cardboard_dada@yahoo.com, prophets@maui.net, m.pilkington@virgin.net, PCLARK@JJHILL.ORG, delaneyw@shasta.com, Edward Jahn <ejahn@barnard.edu>, derlock@mailexcite.com, “Andre Welling” <andre.welling@db.com>, Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen@mindspring.com>, “MUTANEX Command HAWAI’I” <mutanex@aloha.net>, miriamwhite420@hotmail.com, ibogaine@mindvox.com, Nick Sandberg <nick.sandberg@virgin.net>, George Clayton Johnson <hempjack@earthlink.net>, axiom@greatmystery.org, dancegroove@nyc.rr.com, “warcry@indymedia.org” <warcrycinema@yahoo.com>, “Jay Statzer” <jstatzer@qtm.net>, philipkdick@yahoogroups.com, “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
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Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy
by Brian Vastag
Journal of the American Medical Association
Vol. 288 No. 24, pp. 3096-3101, December 25, 2002
© 2002 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.

Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy

New York — Some drugs are made in laboratories. Others, like
penicillin, are discovered by accident. And then there’s ibogaine, a
sacramental substance from West Africa that some say interrupts heroin,
cocaine, and other addictions. Over the past 40 years, the tale of
ibogaine’s flirtation with legitimacy boasts more twists than the roots
of Tabernanthe iboga, the shrublike source of ibogaine.

After riding the backpacks of Westerners to the radical 1960s New York
City underground, ibogaine rose from a counterculture star to a serious
project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 1995,
after spending several million dollars on laboratory and animal studies,
the NIH decided not to pursue ibogaine development. Since then, patent
disputes have divided the drug’s champions; a growing network of
informal clinics has sprung up; and pharmacologists have discovered that
ibogaine works on the brain in a manner unlike that of any other known
drug (see sidebar 1).

After all this, ibogaine and two of its derivatives appear closer to
legitimacy now than ever before. In 1998, a University of Miami Medical
Center researcher opened an ibogaine clinic on the Caribbean island of
St Kitt’s. Although the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had
approved human trials with ibogaine, Deborah Mash, PhD, associate
professor of neurology and pharmacology at Miami, could not secure
funding for a stateside study. Instead, she solicited private investment
and won favor from the government of St Kitt’s, where a team of
physician counselors and addiction specialists now collect data that
Mash hopes will cement support for US trials of ibogaine or its
metabolite, noribogaine.

Tabernanthe iboga, the West African source of ibogaine, used by some to
treat addiction.

Meanwhile, another pharmacologist, Stanley Glick, MD, PhD, director of
the Center for Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience at Albany Medical
Center, has painstakingly moved a derivative of ibogaine toward its own
clinical trial. After 12 years of basic research on scores of molecular
variations on the ibogaine theme, Glick recently forged an agreement
that represents his best chance for a clinical trial. Signed in November
2002, the contract obligates investors to raise $5 million within 2
years to fund the first human studies of 18-methoxycoronaridine (18-MC).

But even as ibogaine’s supporters sniff success, they worry that the
drug’s origins will continue to stunt its development. “It’s been a
continuous battle for respect,” said Glick. “Ibogaine has really become
notorious because it didn’t originate in a lab, but in the
counterculture.”

Mash is concerned that burgeoning unsanctioned use will compromise years
of laboratory and clinical work. “We’ve got this explosion of
underground clinics, and I’m scared that everything I work for is going
to go right down the toilet,” Mash said in a recent telephone interview.
As an endowed, tenured professor, Mash has all the right credentials: a
29-page curriculum vitae listing 155 publications; a history of millions
of dollars in federal grants; a spot at the table of several National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) review committees; and a reputation as a
brilliant brain scientist.

And yet, Mash feels that ibogaine’s tumultuous history (see sidebar 2)
has isolated her. “I’m the only one [doing clinical research],” she
said. “I figured, somebody ought to test the damn thing. You know,
either it works or it doesn’t.”

SCIENTISTS LOOK INTO USE

In 1999, Kenneth Alper, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at
New York University School of Medicine, hosted the first serious
scientific conference devoted to ibogaine. He and Glick compiled the
proceedings into a thick volume (Alkaloids Chem Biol. 2001;56:1-330). In
the preface, Geoffrey Cordell, PhD, a pharmacology researcher at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, writes that while ibogaine probably
“won’t save the world from addiction,” it deserves a “prominent position
in the list of anti-addictive strategies” under study.

Animal data support Cordell’s conclusion. Dozens of articles referenced
in the conference proceedings report reductions in self-administration
of morphine, heroin, cocaine, alcohol, and nicotine in rodents given
ibogaine. The effects last from 1 to 5 days, depending on dosage and
other variables. Noribogaine and 18-MC produced similar results.

That means the central hurdle for ibogaine’s supporters is amassing
compelling human data. While unknowable scores of addicts continue
ingesting ibogaine hydrochloridea purified powder — or ibogaa
whole-plant extract containing a dozen or more active alkaloids — few
trained researchers witness the events.

“There’s basically one big uncontrolled experiment going on out there,”
said Frank Vocci, PhD, head of antiaddiction drug development at NIDA.

Consequently, supporters have had to rely on anecdotal accounts. At a
pivotal 1995 NIDA meeting, Howard Lotsof, credited with discovering
ibogaine’s purported antiaddictive potential, presented a collection of
case reports. He reported that 10 (19%) of 52 treatments led to
cessation of heroin or cocaine use for a year or longer; 15 (29%)
treatments led to 2 months or less of sobriety. The remaining treatments
were followed by sober periods between 2 months and 1 year. Despite
Lotsof’s report, the NIDA peer review panel voted nine to four to reject
a clinical grant application from Mash.

She regrouped and eventually opened the Healing Visions clinic in St
Kitt’s. In 2000, Mash and colleagues published the data from 27 cocaine-
or heroin-addicted patients treated at the center (Ann N Y Acad Sci.
2000:914;394-401). The researchers conclude that “self-reported
depressive symptoms and craving were significantly decreased” at 1 month
after stopping treatment with ibogaine. They also note that ibogaine
treatment “decreased participants’ desire and intention to use heroin.”
Mash is now analyzing safety and efficacy data for 257 patients.

SAFETY CONCERNS

At Healing Visions, patients receive what Mash calls “state-of-the-art
care,” with round-the-clock monitoring and access to the latest
emergency equipment. But individuals who seek out ibogaine in other
settings receive no such supervision. “It’s caveat emptor,” said NIDA’s
Vocci.

Vocci also said that safety was “not the main concern” at the pivotal
1995 NIDA meeting, which he chaired. However, that review panel did cite
safety issues. One reviewer wrote that the drug’s toxicology profile was
“less than ideal,” with bradycardia leading the list of worrisome
adverse effects.

In fact, between 1989 and 2000, three reports of patients dying after
taking ibogaine surfaced, sparking a swirl of questions about the drug’s
safety. The first death, of a 40-year-old woman in France, apparently
stemmed from preexisting heart disease. A lack of medical information
hindered investigations into the other two deaths and led to conflicting
conclusions about whether ibogaine was to blame.

In a 1996 radio interview with WBAI in New York City, Mash said that, in
the French case, the patient “was very sick, she had a very sick heart
and she shouldn’t have been given ibogaine under any circumstances. . .
.” And in the second death, “we don’t completely know the mechanism of
lethality, but it did appear to be respiratory collapse in this case.
The bottom line is that you need to be under medical supervision. . . .
Ibogaine is an important drug but it is not to be used outside the
medical establishment, not ever, ever, ever.”

Despite Mash’s warnings, unsanctioned ibogaine use appears to be
soaring. A sophisticated “underground railroad” of sorts has sprung up
in New York, spearheaded by Dana Beal, a long-time marijuana
legalization advocate. When heroin- or cocaine-addicted individuals
develop an interest in ibogaine, they often call Beal, who acts as
intake counselor.

During an interview in his home, the one-time headquarters of the
radical 1960s Yipster Times newspaper, Beal said that if he thinks
someone is a good candidate for ibogaine, he helps arrange a visit to an
informal clinic.

The best known operation, according to Beal, is in the Netherlands at
the Amsterdam home of Sara Glatt, who practices various types of
alternative medicine. Glatt has treated some 85 people during the last 3
years. When an addicted individual arrives, Glatt asks for a history of
heart problems or bad experiences with psychedelic drugs. Judging from
that information and the individual’s weight, Glatt provides between 2 g
and 6 g of powdered iboga, the whole-plant extract that contains at
least a dozen active ingredients in addition to ibogaine.

Whereas Glatt charges upward of $1000 for her services, the newest
clinic, in Vancouver, British Columbia, offers free ibogaine. The
clinic’s founder, Marc Emery, won 2000 of 140 000 votes in the 2002
Vancouver mayoral election running on a platform of open access to
ibogaine. He recently solicited an ibogaine e-mail list for feedback on
a proposed treatment regimen.

Lotsof, on the other hand, has already published a rigorous protocol
(Lotsof H, Wachtel B. Manual for Ibogaine Therapy: Screening, Safety,
Monitoring, and Aftercare, First Revision. Published online. Available
at http://www.ibogaine.org/manual.html. Accessed November 26, 2002). In
the preface to the first revision, Lotsof and coauthor Boaz Wachtel
write that the manual is “intended for lay-healers who have little or no
medical experience, but who are nevertheless concerned with patient
safety and the outcome of ibogaine treatments.” The manual suggests
inclusion and exclusion criteria, ibogaine regimens and doses, and
considerations for posttreatment care. A naive physician would likely
accept it as a standard medical protocol.

Back in the realm of sanctioned drug development, Glick and Mash are now
focused on bringing their respective ibogaine derivatives into clinical
trials. “That’s certainly the way to go now,” said Vocci. Alper voiced a
similar opinion, saying that he views ibogaine as proof of concept that
the best hope for a therapeutic drug lies with ibogaine derivatives.
Glick, too, is certain that the FDA will never approve ibogaine. In
addition to safety concerns and the drug’s social history, the
hallucinogenic effects of ibogaine (see sidebar 1) could be problematic.

After NIDA rejected ibogaine clinical trials, both Mash and Glick struck
out with the pharmaceutical industry, which has been traditionally cool
to antiaddiction drugs. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of
America (PhRMA) reports that in 1999, for example, its roster of drug
giants had 10 antiaddiction agents in clinical trials. The same
companies had more than 400 cancer drugs in clinical development. When
asked to explain the disparity, Jeff Trewhitt, spokesman for PhRMA,
said, “We certainly don’t know a reason, unfortunately.”

But ibogaine researchers and others, including a spokeswoman for the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), say
that addiction stigma and low profit potential are keeping companies
away.

Whatever the case, the dearth of pharmaceutical and other treatments
means that the societal costs of addiction will continue to climb.
SAMHSA reports that in 2000, illicit drug addiction cost the United
States $160 billion in medical care, lost productivity, and crime and
incarceration, up from $117 billion in 1997. Illicit drug addiction is
here to stay.

So too, it appears, is ibogaine.

An Odd Drug

Other hallucinations passed before my eyesburning skulls and faces, the
figures of women in black dresses stretching out long white arms toward
me from the edges of my visionbut when I tried to speak of them, they
disappeared. Meanwhile, the iboga was making me sick. I fought back
waves of nausea. I wanted to reach the deeper visionary state, but I was
also afraid of the drug.
Journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, in Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic
Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism. New York, NY: Broadway
Books; 2002.

At low doses, ibogaine is a mild stimulant. At high doses, users report
deeply emotional visions, sometimes pleasant, sometimes harrowing.
Patrick Kroupa, who credits ibogaine with 3 years of sobriety after 15
years of addiction, said, “It was like dying and going to hell 1000
times.”

Whatever the subjective experience, pharmacologists have spent decades
puzzling out the brain effects of ibogaine. Their conclusion: it’s
unlike any other known drug. Kenneth Alper, PhD, assistant professor of
psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, said that the drug
appears to work on “every neurotransmitter system we know about.” It
binds to N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors and µ- and -opioid receptors;
all three play prominent roles in current theories of addiction.

Ibogaine also acts as an antidepressant by binding to serotonin
transporters, thereby increasing serotonin levels in the nucleus
accumbens. Evidence of impact on the dopamine and acetylcholine systems
is less compelling, but deserves consideration, said Alper (Alkaloids
Chem Biol. 2001;56:2-33).

Most recently, Stanley Glick, MD, PhD, published support for his theory
that ibogaine reduces drug-seeking behavior in rodents by blocking a3b4
nicotinic receptors (Eur J Pharmacol. 2002;438:99-105).

Meanwhile, Deborah Mash, PhD, a neuroscientist at University of Miami
Medical Center, is convinced that ibogaine is nothing but a short-acting
prodrug. It quickly metabolizes into noribogaine, she said, which boasts
a half-life so long that she has been unable to measure it. This
property, she believes, explains ibogaine’s purported ability to block
drug cravings for weeks or months (Alkaloids Chem Biol.
2001;56:79-113).B.V.

(Return to text.)

A Brief History of Ibogaine

1885: First published description of religious use of Tabernanthe iboga
in Gabon appears in France; it reports that initiates of the Bwiti
religion eat rootbark to induce visions and “meet their ancestors.”

1939: Sold in France as a stimulant until 1970.

1962: Howard Lotsof, a 19-year-old from Staten Island, receives ibogaine
from an LSD chemist and gives it to 19 other people. He later reports
that five of seven heroin and cocaine addicts in this group, including
himself, stop illicit drug use for up to 18 months and experience little
or no acute withdrawal.

1970: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies ibogaine as a
Schedule I drug, making it illegal. Belgium also outlaws ibogaine, but
today it remains legal in the rest of the world.

1985: Lotsof receives a US patent for use of ibogaine in opioid
withdrawal. Additional patents describing ibogaine treatment for cocaine
and other addictions follow.

1989: Ibogaine addiction treatment begins in informal clinics in the
Netherlands. By 2002, informal clinics have opened in the United
Kingdom, Canada, Slovenia, and Mexico.

1991: After intense pressure from activists, the National Institute on
Drug Abuse (NIDA) begins funding preclinical toxicology and other
laboratory research on ibogaine.

1993: The FDA approves a US clinical trial of ibogaine sponsored by
University of Miami neuroscientist Deborah Mash, PhD.

1995: NIDA review committee rejects funding for Mash’s clinical trial.

1999: Mash opens ibogaine clinic on Caribbean island of St Kitt’s. By
late 2002, she has collected safety and efficacy data on 257 addicted
patients.

2002: Long-running legal dispute between Lotsof and Mash ends with the
University of Miami winning patents for noribogaine, a metabolite of
ibogaine. Stanley Glick, MD, PhD, director of the Center for
Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience at Albany Medical Center, signs
contract to bring ibogaine derivative 18-MC into clinical trials.B.V.

(Return to text.)

From: brendan22@hushmail.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fwd: JAMA: Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy
Date: December 25, 2002 at 5:17:31 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Great article. I don’t know everything about ibogaine but it has a really good summary of everything. I don’t care about the mexico against mash argument, but her quotes in the article are more or less identical to what curtis described, which is she’s it, everyone else is the underground who doesn’t know what they’re doing.

Except if healing visions opened in 2000, then where did you detox patrick, a time machine?

Thanks in advance to Slip Stream who will probably post how to do that.

Quotes:

Mash is concerned that burgeoning unsanctioned use will compromise years of laboratory and clinical work. “We’ve got this explosion of underground clinics, and I’m scared that everything I work for is going to go right down the toilet,” Mash said in a recent telephone interview. As an endowed, tenured professor, Mash has all the right credentials: a 29-page curriculum vitae listing 155 publications; a history of millions of dollars in federal grants; a spot at the table of several National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) review committees; and a reputation as a brilliant brain scientist.

And yet, Mash feels that ibogaine’s tumultuous history (see sidebar 2) has isolated her. “I’m the only one [doing clinical research],” she said. “I figured, somebody ought to test the damn thing. You know, either it works or it doesn’t.”

At Healing Visions, patients receive what Mash calls “state-of-the-art care,” with round-the-clock monitoring and access to the latest emergency equipment. But individuals who seek out ibogaine in other settings receive no such supervision. “It’s caveat emptor,” said NIDA’s Vocci.

Vocci also said that safety was “not the main concern” at the pivotal 1995 NIDA meeting, which he chaired. However, that review panel did cite safety issues. One reviewer wrote that the drug’s toxicology profile was “less than ideal,” with bradycardia leading the list of worrisome adverse effects.

“There’s basically one big uncontrolled experiment going on out there,” said Frank Vocci, PhD, head of antiaddiction drug development at NIDA.

On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:00:16 -0800 HSLotsof@aol.com wrote:
For whatever reason aol members get the previous edition (#23) when
accessing
the current edition url for JAMA.  So here is the correct web page
address.

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/current/ffull/jmn1225-2.html

Howard

In a message dated 12/25/02 11:58:43 AM, HSL123 writes:

<<A review article on the experimental antiaddictive medication
ibogaine was
just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
I’m
mentioned in the article so I just thought I would let you know.
This
article was a direct result of a small community forum held in Harlem
in mid
November <http://ibogaine.org/nycforum.html>.

The article is available in html or a downloadable pdf format from
the url
below.

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/current/toc.html >>

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From: HSLotsof@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fwd: JAMA: Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy
Date: December 25, 2002 at 1:00:16 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

For whatever reason aol members get the previous edition (#23) when accessing
the current edition url for JAMA.  So here is the correct web page address.

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/current/ffull/jmn1225-2.html

Howard

In a message dated 12/25/02 11:58:43 AM, HSL123 writes:

<<A review article on the experimental antiaddictive medication ibogaine was
just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.  I’m
mentioned in the article so I just thought I would let you know.  This
article was a direct result of a small community forum held in Harlem in mid
November <http://ibogaine.org/nycforum.html>.

The article is available in html or a downloadable pdf format from the url
below.

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/current/toc.html >>

From: HSLotsof@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Fwd: JAMA: Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy
Date: December 25, 2002 at 11:29:28 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Congratulations to Dana for getting this article (JAMA: Addiction Treatment
Strives for Legitimacy) to be a reality:  The result of the NYC Iboga and
Ibogaine Forum.  The JAMA article is available without a subscription in both
html and pdf formats from <http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/current/toc.html>.

Quite a good article bringing the state of ibogaine development to the
medical community.

Howard

From: Dana Beal <dana@cures-not-wars.org>
Subject: [ibogaine] Fwd: JAMA: Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy
Date: December 25, 2002 at 11:20:01 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Delivered-To: dana@cures-not-wars.org
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 22:45:28 -0500
From: Doug McVay <dmcvay@patriot.net>
Reply-To: dmcvay@csdp.org
Organization: Common Sense for Drug Policy
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Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy
by Brian Vastag
Journal of the American Medical Association
Vol. 288 No. 24, pp. 3096-3101, December 25, 2002
© 2002 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.

Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy

New York — Some drugs are made in laboratories. Others, like
penicillin, are discovered by accident. And then there’s ibogaine, a
sacramental substance from West Africa that some say interrupts heroin,
cocaine, and other addictions. Over the past 40 years, the tale of
ibogaine’s flirtation with legitimacy boasts more twists than the roots
of Tabernanthe iboga, the shrublike source of ibogaine.

After riding the backpacks of Westerners to the radical 1960s New York
City underground, ibogaine rose from a counterculture star to a serious
project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 1995,
after spending several million dollars on laboratory and animal studies,
the NIH decided not to pursue ibogaine development. Since then, patent
disputes have divided the drug’s champions; a growing network of
informal clinics has sprung up; and pharmacologists have discovered that
ibogaine works on the brain in a manner unlike that of any other known
drug (see sidebar 1).

After all this, ibogaine and two of its derivatives appear closer to
legitimacy now than ever before. In 1998, a University of Miami Medical
Center researcher opened an ibogaine clinic on the Caribbean island of
St Kitt’s. Although the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had
approved human trials with ibogaine, Deborah Mash, PhD, associate
professor of neurology and pharmacology at Miami, could not secure
funding for a stateside study. Instead, she solicited private investment
and won favor from the government of St Kitt’s, where a team of
physician counselors and addiction specialists now collect data that
Mash hopes will cement support for US trials of ibogaine or its
metabolite, noribogaine.

Tabernanthe iboga, the West African source of ibogaine, used by some to
treat addiction.

Meanwhile, another pharmacologist, Stanley Glick, MD, PhD, director of
the Center for Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience at Albany Medical
Center, has painstakingly moved a derivative of ibogaine toward its own
clinical trial. After 12 years of basic research on scores of molecular
variations on the ibogaine theme, Glick recently forged an agreement
that represents his best chance for a clinical trial. Signed in November
2002, the contract obligates investors to raise $5 million within 2
years to fund the first human studies of 18-methoxycoronaridine (18-MC).

But even as ibogaine’s supporters sniff success, they worry that the
drug’s origins will continue to stunt its development. “It’s been a
continuous battle for respect,” said Glick. “Ibogaine has really become
notorious because it didn’t originate in a lab, but in the
counterculture.”

Mash is concerned that burgeoning unsanctioned use will compromise years
of laboratory and clinical work. “We’ve got this explosion of
underground clinics, and I’m scared that everything I work for is going
to go right down the toilet,” Mash said in a recent telephone interview.
As an endowed, tenured professor, Mash has all the right credentials: a
29-page curriculum vitae listing 155 publications; a history of millions
of dollars in federal grants; a spot at the table of several National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) review committees; and a reputation as a
brilliant brain scientist.

And yet, Mash feels that ibogaine’s tumultuous history (see sidebar 2)
has isolated her. “I’m the only one [doing clinical research],” she
said. “I figured, somebody ought to test the damn thing. You know,
either it works or it doesn’t.”

SCIENTISTS LOOK INTO USE

In 1999, Kenneth Alper, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at
New York University School of Medicine, hosted the first serious
scientific conference devoted to ibogaine. He and Glick compiled the
proceedings into a thick volume (Alkaloids Chem Biol. 2001;56:1-330). In
the preface, Geoffrey Cordell, PhD, a pharmacology researcher at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, writes that while ibogaine probably
“won’t save the world from addiction,” it deserves a “prominent position
in the list of anti-addictive strategies” under study.

Animal data support Cordell’s conclusion. Dozens of articles referenced
in the conference proceedings report reductions in self-administration
of morphine, heroin, cocaine, alcohol, and nicotine in rodents given
ibogaine. The effects last from 1 to 5 days, depending on dosage and
other variables. Noribogaine and 18-MC produced similar results.

That means the central hurdle for ibogaine’s supporters is amassing
compelling human data. While unknowable scores of addicts continue
ingesting ibogaine hydrochloridea purified powder — or ibogaa
whole-plant extract containing a dozen or more active alkaloids — few
trained researchers witness the events.

“There’s basically one big uncontrolled experiment going on out there,”
said Frank Vocci, PhD, head of antiaddiction drug development at NIDA.

Consequently, supporters have had to rely on anecdotal accounts. At a
pivotal 1995 NIDA meeting, Howard Lotsof, credited with discovering
ibogaine’s purported antiaddictive potential, presented a collection of
case reports. He reported that 10 (19%) of 52 treatments led to
cessation of heroin or cocaine use for a year or longer; 15 (29%)
treatments led to 2 months or less of sobriety. The remaining treatments
were followed by sober periods between 2 months and 1 year. Despite
Lotsof’s report, the NIDA peer review panel voted nine to four to reject
a clinical grant application from Mash.

She regrouped and eventually opened the Healing Visions clinic in St
Kitt’s. In 2000, Mash and colleagues published the data from 27 cocaine-
or heroin-addicted patients treated at the center (Ann N Y Acad Sci.
2000:914;394-401). The researchers conclude that “self-reported
depressive symptoms and craving were significantly decreased” at 1 month
after stopping treatment with ibogaine. They also note that ibogaine
treatment “decreased participants’ desire and intention to use heroin.”
Mash is now analyzing safety and efficacy data for 257 patients.

SAFETY CONCERNS

At Healing Visions, patients receive what Mash calls “state-of-the-art
care,” with round-the-clock monitoring and access to the latest
emergency equipment. But individuals who seek out ibogaine in other
settings receive no such supervision. “It’s caveat emptor,” said NIDA’s
Vocci.

Vocci also said that safety was “not the main concern” at the pivotal
1995 NIDA meeting, which he chaired. However, that review panel did cite
safety issues. One reviewer wrote that the drug’s toxicology profile was
“less than ideal,” with bradycardia leading the list of worrisome
adverse effects.

In fact, between 1989 and 2000, three reports of patients dying after
taking ibogaine surfaced, sparking a swirl of questions about the drug’s
safety. The first death, of a 40-year-old woman in France, apparently
stemmed from preexisting heart disease. A lack of medical information
hindered investigations into the other two deaths and led to conflicting
conclusions about whether ibogaine was to blame.

In a 1996 radio interview with WBAI in New York City, Mash said that, in
the French case, the patient “was very sick, she had a very sick heart
and she shouldn’t have been given ibogaine under any circumstances. . .
.” And in the second death, “we don’t completely know the mechanism of
lethality, but it did appear to be respiratory collapse in this case.
The bottom line is that you need to be under medical supervision. . . .
Ibogaine is an important drug but it is not to be used outside the
medical establishment, not ever, ever, ever.”

Despite Mash’s warnings, unsanctioned ibogaine use appears to be
soaring. A sophisticated “underground railroad” of sorts has sprung up
in New York, spearheaded by Dana Beal, a long-time marijuana
legalization advocate. When heroin- or cocaine-addicted individuals
develop an interest in ibogaine, they often call Beal, who acts as
intake counselor.

During an interview in his home, the one-time headquarters of the
radical 1960s Yipster Times newspaper, Beal said that if he thinks
someone is a good candidate for ibogaine, he helps arrange a visit to an
informal clinic.

The best known operation, according to Beal, is in the Netherlands at
the Amsterdam home of Sara Glatt, who practices various types of
alternative medicine. Glatt has treated some 85 people during the last 3
years. When an addicted individual arrives, Glatt asks for a history of
heart problems or bad experiences with psychedelic drugs. Judging from
that information and the individual’s weight, Glatt provides between 2 g
and 6 g of powdered iboga, the whole-plant extract that contains at
least a dozen active ingredients in addition to ibogaine.

Whereas Glatt charges upward of $1000 for her services, the newest
clinic, in Vancouver, British Columbia, offers free ibogaine. The
clinic’s founder, Marc Emery, won 2000 of 140 000 votes in the 2002
Vancouver mayoral election running on a platform of open access to
ibogaine. He recently solicited an ibogaine e-mail list for feedback on
a proposed treatment regimen.

Lotsof, on the other hand, has already published a rigorous protocol
(Lotsof H, Wachtel B. Manual for Ibogaine Therapy: Screening, Safety,
Monitoring, and Aftercare, First Revision. Published online. Available
at http://www.ibogaine.org/manual.html. Accessed November 26, 2002). In
the preface to the first revision, Lotsof and coauthor Boaz Wachtel
write that the manual is “intended for lay-healers who have little or no
medical experience, but who are nevertheless concerned with patient
safety and the outcome of ibogaine treatments.” The manual suggests
inclusion and exclusion criteria, ibogaine regimens and doses, and
considerations for posttreatment care. A naive physician would likely
accept it as a standard medical protocol.

Back in the realm of sanctioned drug development, Glick and Mash are now
focused on bringing their respective ibogaine derivatives into clinical
trials. “That’s certainly the way to go now,” said Vocci. Alper voiced a
similar opinion, saying that he views ibogaine as proof of concept that
the best hope for a therapeutic drug lies with ibogaine derivatives.
Glick, too, is certain that the FDA will never approve ibogaine. In
addition to safety concerns and the drug’s social history, the
hallucinogenic effects of ibogaine (see sidebar 1) could be problematic.

After NIDA rejected ibogaine clinical trials, both Mash and Glick struck
out with the pharmaceutical industry, which has been traditionally cool
to antiaddiction drugs. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of
America (PhRMA) reports that in 1999, for example, its roster of drug
giants had 10 antiaddiction agents in clinical trials. The same
companies had more than 400 cancer drugs in clinical development. When
asked to explain the disparity, Jeff Trewhitt, spokesman for PhRMA,
said, “We certainly don’t know a reason, unfortunately.”

But ibogaine researchers and others, including a spokeswoman for the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), say
that addiction stigma and low profit potential are keeping companies
away.

Whatever the case, the dearth of pharmaceutical and other treatments
means that the societal costs of addiction will continue to climb.
SAMHSA reports that in 2000, illicit drug addiction cost the United
States $160 billion in medical care, lost productivity, and crime and
incarceration, up from $117 billion in 1997. Illicit drug addiction is
here to stay.

So too, it appears, is ibogaine.

An Odd Drug

Other hallucinations passed before my eyesburning skulls and faces, the
figures of women in black dresses stretching out long white arms toward
me from the edges of my visionbut when I tried to speak of them, they
disappeared. Meanwhile, the iboga was making me sick. I fought back
waves of nausea. I wanted to reach the deeper visionary state, but I was
also afraid of the drug.
Journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, in Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic
Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism. New York, NY: Broadway
Books; 2002.

At low doses, ibogaine is a mild stimulant. At high doses, users report
deeply emotional visions, sometimes pleasant, sometimes harrowing.
Patrick Kroupa, who credits ibogaine with 3 years of sobriety after 15
years of addiction, said, “It was like dying and going to hell 1000
times.”

Whatever the subjective experience, pharmacologists have spent decades
puzzling out the brain effects of ibogaine. Their conclusion: it’s
unlike any other known drug. Kenneth Alper, PhD, assistant professor of
psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, said that the drug
appears to work on “every neurotransmitter system we know about.” It
binds to N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors and µ- and -opioid receptors;
all three play prominent roles in current theories of addiction.

Ibogaine also acts as an antidepressant by binding to serotonin
transporters, thereby increasing serotonin levels in the nucleus
accumbens. Evidence of impact on the dopamine and acetylcholine systems
is less compelling, but deserves consideration, said Alper (Alkaloids
Chem Biol. 2001;56:2-33).

Most recently, Stanley Glick, MD, PhD, published support for his theory
that ibogaine reduces drug-seeking behavior in rodents by blocking a3b4
nicotinic receptors (Eur J Pharmacol. 2002;438:99-105).

Meanwhile, Deborah Mash, PhD, a neuroscientist at University of Miami
Medical Center, is convinced that ibogaine is nothing but a short-acting
prodrug. It quickly metabolizes into noribogaine, she said, which boasts
a half-life so long that she has been unable to measure it. This
property, she believes, explains ibogaine’s purported ability to block
drug cravings for weeks or months (Alkaloids Chem Biol.
2001;56:79-113).B.V.

(Return to text.)

A Brief History of Ibogaine

1885: First published description of religious use of Tabernanthe iboga
in Gabon appears in France; it reports that initiates of the Bwiti
religion eat rootbark to induce visions and “meet their ancestors.”

1939: Sold in France as a stimulant until 1970.

1962: Howard Lotsof, a 19-year-old from Staten Island, receives ibogaine
from an LSD chemist and gives it to 19 other people. He later reports
that five of seven heroin and cocaine addicts in this group, including
himself, stop illicit drug use for up to 18 months and experience little
or no acute withdrawal.

1970: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies ibogaine as a
Schedule I drug, making it illegal. Belgium also outlaws ibogaine, but
today it remains legal in the rest of the world.

1985: Lotsof receives a US patent for use of ibogaine in opioid
withdrawal. Additional patents describing ibogaine treatment for cocaine
and other addictions follow.

1989: Ibogaine addiction treatment begins in informal clinics in the
Netherlands. By 2002, informal clinics have opened in the United
Kingdom, Canada, Slovenia, and Mexico.

1991: After intense pressure from activists, the National Institute on
Drug Abuse (NIDA) begins funding preclinical toxicology and other
laboratory research on ibogaine.

1993: The FDA approves a US clinical trial of ibogaine sponsored by
University of Miami neuroscientist Deborah Mash, PhD.

1995: NIDA review committee rejects funding for Mash’s clinical trial.

1999: Mash opens ibogaine clinic on Caribbean island of St Kitt’s. By
late 2002, she has collected safety and efficacy data on 257 addicted
patients.

2002: Long-running legal dispute between Lotsof and Mash ends with the
University of Miami winning patents for noribogaine, a metabolite of
ibogaine. Stanley Glick, MD, PhD, director of the Center for
Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience at Albany Medical Center, signs
contract to bring ibogaine derivative 18-MC into clinical trials.B.V.

(Return to text.)


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From: Slip Stream <slipstream@hipplanet.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] PKD Spectrum Introduction to Zero Point Energy
Date: December 25, 2002 at 3:45:43 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

An Introduction to Zero-Point Energy

Quantum physics predicts the existence of an underlying sea of zero-point energy at every point in the universe. This is different from the cosmic microwave background and is also referred to as the electromagnetic quantum vacuum since it is the lowest state of otherwise empty space. This energy is so enormous that most physicists believe that even though zero-point energy seems to be an inescapable consequence of elementary quantum theory, it cannot be physically real, and so is subtracted away in calculations.

A minority of physicists accept it as real energy which we cannot directly sense since it is the same everywhere, even inside our bodies and measuring devices. From this perspective, the ordinary world of matter and energy is like a foam atop the quantum vacuum sea. It does not matter to a ship how deep the ocean is below it. If the zero-point energy is real, there is the possibility that it can be tapped as a source of power or be harnassed to generate a propulsive force for space travel.

The propellor or the jet engine of an aircraft push air backwards to propel the aircraft forward. A ship or boat propellor does the same thing with water. On Earth there is always air or water available to push against. But a rocket in space has nothing to push against, and so it needs to carry propellant to eject in place of air or water. The fundamental problem is that a deep space rocket would have to start out with all the propellant it will ever need. This quickly results in the need to carry more and more propellant just to propel the propellant. The breakthrough one wishes for deep space travel is to overcome the need to carry propellant at all. How can one generate a propulsive force without carrying and ejecting propellant?

There is a force associated with the electromagnetic quantum vacuum: the Casimir force. This force is an attraction between parallel metallic plates that has now been well measured and can be attributed to a minutely tiny imbalance in the zero-point energy in the cavity between versus the region outside the plates. This is not useful for propulsion since it symmetrically pulls on the plates. However if some asymmetric variation of the Casimir force could be identified one could in effect sail through space as if propelled by a kind of quantum fluctuation wind. This is pure speculation.

The other requirement for space travel is energy. A thought experiment published by physicist Robert Forward in 1984 demonstrated how the Casimir force could in principle be used to extract energy from the quantum vacuum (Phys. Rev. B, 30, 1700, 1984). Theoretical studies in the early 1990s (Phys. Rev. E, 48, 1562, 1993) verified that this was not contradictory to the laws of thermodynamics (since the zero-point energy is different from a thermal reservoir of heat). Unfortunately the Forward process cannot be cycled to yield a continuous extraction of energy. A Casimir engine would be one whose cylinders could only fire once, after which the engine become useless.

ORIGIN OF ZERO-POINT ENERGY

The basis of zero-point energy is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, one of the fundamental laws of quantum physics. According to this principle, the more precisely one measures the position of a moving particle, such as an electron, the less exact the best possible measurement of momentum (mass times velocity) will be, and vice versa. The least possible uncertainty of position times momentum is specified by Planck’s constant, h. A parallel uncertainty exists between measurements involving time and energy. This minimum uncertainty is not due to any correctable flaws in measurement, but rather reflects an intrinsic quantum fuzziness in the very nature of energy and matter.

A useful calculational tool in physics is the ideal harmonic oscillator: a hypothetical mass on a perfect spring moving back and forth. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle dictates that such an ideal harmonic oscillator — one small enough to be subject to quantum laws — can never come entirely to rest, since that would be a state of exactly zero energy, which is forbidden. In this case the average minimum energy is one-half h times the frequency, hf/2.

Radio waves, light, X-rays, and gamma rays are all forms of electromagnetic radiation. Classically, electromagnetic radiation can be pictured as waves flowing through space at the speed of light. The waves are not waves of anything substantive, but are in fact ripples in a state of a field. These waves do carry energy, and each wave has a specific direction, frequency and polarization state. This is called a “propagating mode of the electromagnetic field.”

Each mode is subject to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. To understand the meaning of this, the theory of electromagnetic radiation is quantized by treating each mode as an equivalent harmonic oscillator. From this analogy, every mode of the field must have hf/2 as its average minimum energy. That is a tiny amount of energy, but the number of modes is enormous, and indeed increases as the square of the frequency. The product of the tiny energy per mode times the huge spatial density of modes yields a very high theoretical energy density per cubic centimeter.

From this line of reasoning, quantum physics predicts that all of space must be filled with electromagnetic zero-point fluctuations (also called the zero-point field) creating a universal sea of zero-point energy. The density of this energy depends critically on where in frequency the zero-point fluctuations cease. Since space itself is thought to break up into a kind of quantum foam at a tiny distance scale called the Planck scale (10-33 cm), it is argued that the zero point fluctuations must cease at a corresponding Planck frequency (1043 Hz). If that is the case, the zero-point energy density would be 110 orders of magnitude greater than the radiant energy at the center of the Sun.

CONNECTION TO INERTIA AND GRAVITATION

When a passenger in an airplane feels pushed against his seat as the airplane accelerates down the runway, or when a driver feels pushed to the left when her car makes a sharp turn to the right, what is doing the pushing? Since the time of Newton, this has been attributed to an innate property of matter called inertia. In 1994 a process was discovered whereby the zero-point fluctuations could be the source of the push one feels when changing speed or direction, both being forms of acceleration. The zero-point fluctuations could be the underlying cause of inertia. If that is the case, then we are actually sensing the zero-point energy with every move we make (see origin of inertia).

The principle of equivalence would require an analogous connection for gravitation. Einstein’s general relativity successfully accounts for the motions of freely-falling objects on geodesics (the “shortest” distance between two points in curved spacetime), but does not provide a mechanism for generating a gravitational force for objects when they are forced to deviate from geodesic tracks. It has been found that an object undergoing acceleration or one held fixed in a gravitational field would experience the same kind of asymmetric pattern in the zero-point field giving rise to such a reaction force. The weight you measure on a scale would therefore be due to zero-point energy (see gravitation).

The possibility that electromagnetic zero-point energy may be involved in the production of inertial and gravitational forces opens the possibility that both inertia and gravitation might someday be controlled and manipulated. This could have a profound impact on propulsion and space travel.

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From: Slip Stream <slipstream@hipplanet.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] PKD Spectrum General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Date: December 25, 2002 at 3:41:53 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0209016

http://www.arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0209/0209016.pdf

Update on an Electromagnetic Basis for Inertia, Gravitation, the Principle of Equivalence, Spin and Particle Mass Ratios
Authors: Bernard Haisch, Alfonso Rueda, L. J. Nickisch, Jules Mollere
Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, AIP Conf. Proc., Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF-2003)

A possible connection between the electromagnetic quantum vacuum and inertia was first published by Haisch, Rueda and Puthoff (1994). If correct, this would imply that mass may be an electromagnetic phenomenon and thus in principle subject to modification, with possible technological implications for propulsion. A multiyear NASA-funded study at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center further developed this concept, resulting in an independent theoretical validation of the fundamental approach (Rueda and Haisch, 1998ab). Distortion of the quantum vacuum in accelerated reference frames results in a force that appears to account for inertia. We have now shown that the same effect occurs in a region of curved spacetime, thus elucidating the origin of the principle of equivalence (Rueda, Haisch and Tung, 2001). A further connection with general relativity has been drawn by Nickisch and Mollere (2002): zero-point fluctuations give rise to spacetime micro-curvature effects yielding a complementary perspective on the origin of inertia. Numerical simulations of this effect demonstrate the manner in which a massless fundamental particle, e.g. an electron, acquires inertial properties; this also shows the apparent origin of particle spin along lines originally proposed by Schroedinger. Finally, we suggest that the heavier leptons (muon and tau) may be explainable as spatial-harmonic resonances of the (fundamental) electron. They would carry the same overall charge, but with the charge now having spatially lobed structure, each lobe of which would respond to higher frequency components of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum, thereby increasing the inertia and thus manifesting a heavier mass.

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From: Vector Vector <vector620022002@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] i forgot to add
Date: December 25, 2002 at 3:26:03 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Yes but did he shoot himself in the head on Christmas?

.:vector:.

— brendan22@hushmail.com wrote:

I’m not reposting this message to dis vector, I think brian is right
and it’s ok to have gay friends so no offense to you vector and I
hope it doesn’t cause you any stress. I’m only reposting it because
as I was reading through my mailbox I found this message again and
wanted to say that as much as all holidays suck, there is always
hope. and in case anyone thought that leaving las vegas was a dark
story with a depressing end, this is not the case. Leaving Las Vegas
was based on a book written by John O’Brien, it was his
autobiography. Except he didn’t manage to drink himself to death
there, instead he wrote his book. The film rights got sold because
Nicholas Cage brought a copy of his book and liked it, then after all
that John O’Brien shot himself in the head.

So even if you don’t get what you want, if you only take control of
your destiny it’s within your reach. I think Kurt Cobain belongs in
the same club, people forget he od’d and was in a coma for 2 weeks
about a month before he shot himself in the head and got it right.

These are two examples of persisting despite the odds against you and
getting what you want.

Dreams do come true!

I’m sorry for mentioning your name brian, I know you’re a drug dealer
but I didn’t post your last name.

Merry Christmas!

ascending@hushmail.com wrote:

I hope the women on this list are happy with themselves. You’ve
taken a perfectly normal teenager and turned him into a pussywhipped

homosexual. No offense Vector I have a lot of gay friends.

I have spent a couple days in a 2 day, 12 hour a day class here
http://www.beyondstructure.com just in case Mindvox never finishes
playing with art or objects and dot com doesn’t come back and I
have to go get a job in a few years.

I was thinking about making a movie about the whole Mindvox story
but it would probably be about as uplifting as say, Brazil, or
perhaps
Miracle Mile, with the plot continuity of 12 Monkeys and the light
hearted wacky zaniness of Leaving Las Vegas thrown in.

On On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:21:05 -0700 Vector Vector
<vector620022002@yahoo.com>
wrote:
I forgot to mention since I actually like the people on this list,

the
Lexi Shafer comment was just a bad joke that is only a reflection

on my
immaturity and pornogrpahy disgusts me and I can’t understand how

the
Mindvox people could take money from Lexi to put her nude photos

all
over the internet. I’d do it for free. I mean it’s downright sick

I
didn’t mean that last comment either.

I’m in training for marriage or something. Does it get worse?

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From: brendan22@hushmail.com
Subject: [ibogaine] Re: [vox] All The Nudes That’s Fit to Print…
Date: December 25, 2002 at 3:12:03 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Now this is why I love mindvox, where else can i not only read the collected writings of day brown, but see day brown arguing with legendary hackers. here patrick, say something positive on behalf of alpha males.

since i’m not patrick who is allowed to cross post song requests across 10 lists that have nothing to do with the topic, let me just say ‘ibogaine’

merry christmas!

On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 23:31:28 -0800 Day Brown <daybrown@ozarkisp.net> wrote:

G. Ratte’ wrote:

— Day Brown <daybrown@ozarkisp.net> wrote:

and if they appear to be pubescent, then all the better, that
they may
appear childlike, and thus more gullible and easy for the macho
buyer of
men’s magazines to fanticize about dominating. It aint about sex,
it’s
about alpha male fantasy domination of females.

This part I don’t buy.  I started finding Playboys when I was 8,
and then all
sorts of pr0n since then of course.
The process goes like this : “Oooh, purty nekkid lady!” > lumpy
pants >
getting off > “H000ray!”

There’s no “macho fantasizing about dominating,” that’d just be
twisted and
weird.

Perhaps I can be more clear. It is instinctive, not conscious. But
Human
sex is pretty weird compared to all the other species which engage
in it
so much more for the sake of progeny, and so much less for any other

reason. “Demonic Males” by Wrangham & Peterson, give a rundown on
the
field studies of the Gorilla, Orang, Chimpanzee, & Bonobo.  Just
about
everything humans do can be seen in one simian group or other. And
among
the latter two, the social utility is pretty obvious. A lot of the
sex
is about domination and control; in the Chimp, the alpha males engage
in
it to support status, and have been seen commiting murder, kidnapping,
&
rape. In the Bonobo, the positive re-inforcement of sex is used
to
reward and reassure, without any of the sexual behavior seen as

indicative of control.

Humans seem to vary between the two extremes. The fact that some
men
rely on images, rather than real females is indicative of their
ability
to objectify, which is what the alpha male does to others, for
otherwise, he’d feel the pain of his victim.

There also seems to be a lot of data to indicate that when a species

senses that it has maxed out the resource base, that various strategies

emerge to reduce the procreation rate. Sex becomes more ritualized,
less
functional; and that would include homosexuality and sex with infertile,

in this case, pubescent, partners.

India has been crowded for millennia; it is also where we see Tantric,

ie spiritual uses for sex the most well developed. And while girls
there
have been ‘married’ at eight, the tradition was for the man to be
three
times her age, ie 24, and the marriage would not actually be consumated

until puberty. Which is to say, he’d be about 30 before he had much

chance of siring a child. The child bride lowers the birth rate.
Which
is what modern culture tries to do.

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From: brendan22@hushmail.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] i forgot to add
Date: December 25, 2002 at 2:57:46 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I’m not reposting this message to dis vector, I think brian is right and it’s ok to have gay friends so no offense to you vector and I hope it doesn’t cause you any stress. I’m only reposting it because as I was reading through my mailbox I found this message again and wanted to say that as much as all holidays suck, there is always hope. and in case anyone thought that leaving las vegas was a dark story with a depressing end, this is not the case. Leaving Las Vegas was based on a book written by John O’Brien, it was his autobiography. Except he didn’t manage to drink himself to death there, instead he wrote his book. The film rights got sold because Nicholas Cage brought a copy of his book and liked it, then after all that John O’Brien shot himself in the head.

So even if you don’t get what you want, if you only take control of your destiny it’s within your reach. I think Kurt Cobain belongs in the same club, people forget he od’d and was in a coma for 2 weeks about a month before he shot himself in the head and got it right.

These are two examples of persisting despite the odds against you and getting what you want.

Dreams do come true!

I’m sorry for mentioning your name brian, I know you’re a drug dealer but I didn’t post your last name.

Merry Christmas!

ascending@hushmail.com wrote:

I hope the women on this list are happy with themselves. You’ve
taken a perfectly normal teenager and turned him into a pussywhipped
homosexual. No offense Vector I have a lot of gay friends.

I have spent a couple days in a 2 day, 12 hour a day class here
http://www.beyondstructure.com just in case Mindvox never finishes
playing with art or objects and dot com doesn’t come back and I
have to go get a job in a few years.

I was thinking about making a movie about the whole Mindvox story
but it would probably be about as uplifting as say, Brazil, or perhaps
Miracle Mile, with the plot continuity of 12 Monkeys and the light
hearted wacky zaniness of Leaving Las Vegas thrown in.

On On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:21:05 -0700 Vector Vector <vector620022002@yahoo.com>
wrote:
I forgot to mention since I actually like the people on this list,

the
Lexi Shafer comment was just a bad joke that is only a reflection

on my
immaturity and pornogrpahy disgusts me and I can’t understand how

the
Mindvox people could take money from Lexi to put her nude photos

all
over the internet. I’d do it for free. I mean it’s downright sick

I
didn’t mean that last comment either.

I’m in training for marriage or something. Does it get worse?

.:vector:.

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From: Tbgelfling@aol.com
Subject: [ibogaine] reply to Marc Emery
Date: December 24, 2002 at 8:31:20 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Thanks. I ran into Bernie after not seeing him for several months last week, and he was talking about how much sucess his girl had w/ ibogaine. He said he could get me some info if I let him go online; it took me a minute to figure out why I was getting emails from people I had never heard from, people who seemed to belong to some community that talks ibogaine. Finally I was like, oh , he put me on a list…so I guess I’m part of a kind of email forum? I am familiar with the forums where you go to a website and read entries on a given subject by those who post, but I have never done it like this. If you could explain a little about how it works to me, that would be great (do i just hit “reply” and then the message is sent to others on that thread with my new comment attatched or what?).
I am absolutely committed to getting and staying off of opiates. This is not a new struggle, although it is certainly shorter than the road to wellness for many. I first did heroin 5 years ago, at age 20; first began randomly abusing opiates (no real preference for opiates at first; I was happy with anything that could take away the reality/ realities–or my lack of skills to deal with my reality— that had led to a suicide attempt a year or so earlier. Until the precipitating events to the suicide, I was considered healthy, athletic,introspective (and extroverted), eclectic, creative/artistic, intelligent (straight A student; went to UNC Chapel Hill on a Creative Writing Scholarship), and independant student who was bound for greatness. Never in a million years would anyone at my high school have guessed I’d become a junkie.
I have realized that I do not have the time or the presence of mind to tell you my story in the way I would like to. So I will give you this cliffs notes version, and fill in the balnks later. Meanwhile, I want all of the ibo info I can get, and I would like you to examine my credibility as a ibo patient based on these experiences. One thing: I am really scared to trip, because I am scared I’ll lose it because of all the shit I have been thru since I last had a hallucinogenic experience, while I was still engaged. Is it scary?

The Cheat Sheet to Tb’s Life
-Physically/mentally /sexually abusive childhood; victim of my stepfather, as is my mother
-used school/intellect/imagination to eascape abiove situation; decided I couldn’t be Mom if I was fiercely independant and became a overly educated, overly wealthy grown up.
-Age 13: Moved in with my wealthy and far saner father and stepmother after escaping a beating. Began to pretend that my prior family and mother didn’t exist
-high school: light experimentaation with pot and alcohol only. dedicated student, but lonely. Very few boyfriends in contrast to the in crowd I was brought up w/ after age 13. I wore black and pretended that I was alone by choice, building up a false sense of superiority because I was smarter than these girls. they talked hairdos, i talked herman hesse.  Became one of the guys, which was easy since they already called to talk to me about deeper things than their debutantes could grasp, and sometimes hung out with me to do the things their gfriends didn’t, like smoke, or have an intelligent discussion. Of course, I truly felt left out, ugly, and was forever obsessed w/ a male friend. The people who saw past my tough feminist facade to see the roots of this defense mechanism always said “you’ll meet a guy at Chapel Hill.” Apparently, b/c Chapel Hill is liberalish, “people like me” were there. They were right.
-Met my fiancee at 18 at UNC. First love. All consuming. I love my current man whom I have dated for a year, but I do nt think I wil ever be as fulfilled by anyone as I was with Greg when things were good.
-Fiancee introduces me to some of his illicit study aids, which cause me to lose 55 pounds in 2 years: went from 135 to 80-855 (I’m 5’0″). I decide I have to quit or die, and decide to take a semester off and tell my parents. Greg thought that as long as you were academically/ professionally successful, then drugs were not hurting you. I had a 3.7, better than him, and he used that along w/ other things to say I had abandoned him (I moved 30 minutes away, and we were engaged-had a family planned, etc) and basically pushed him to cheat on me. When that relationship ended, I died. Every second of every day, once I got out of bed, was devoted to altering my consciousness, whether at work or play, to dull the pain. I was so codependant and in love, it was like I’d lost a limb.
That was the beginning of the rapid downfall, which I will describe later. I have been free of street opiates of all kinds for 3 years, but I am on a very high dose of methadone. If heroin is hell, methadone is purgatory: the lesser of 2 evils, but a big evil. I am tired of feeling like a robot. Everyone I have seen attempt a detox has been sick for so long that they eventually had to go back to methadone or heroin so that they could go to work, care for their kids, etc, and of course, stop the sickness. These have ranged from 30 day to 6 month or longer detoxes. Why does this happen?
I have so much more to tell you, but not now. BTW, I always enjoy your seed offerings in counterculture magazines. Kudos to you.

Tara Brown
Founder Creative Child Care
“no one, not even the rain, has such small hands”-ee cummings
Tara Brown
Founder Creative Child Care
“no one, not even the rain, has such small hands”-ee cummings

From: “CCadden” <elgrekkko@carolina.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] x-mas greetings
Date: December 24, 2002 at 5:37:55 PM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

ok, everyone, preston’s gone now. so let us raise demons from the underworld to take over the world, as we have been secretly planning to do the next time he’s away. i will begin the ritual, by slicing open a vein. all of you know your parts—-now let us begin!

—– Original Message —–
From: preston peet
To: drugwar@mindvox.com
Cc: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:00 AM
Subject: [ibogaine] x-mas greetings

Hello all,
I’m writing to wish you all to wish you all the best this week. Happy holidays. They mean something different to each and everyone of us most probably, but I’m most sincere in wishing you and yours a safe, warm and happy holiday.
To those on the DrugWar list, I’m outta here now for the week, so you are on your own. Please keep it civil when discussing the heated issues surrounding the War, and most of all, be constructive in whatever criticisms you may have.
Let’s all hope I do the same, (take my own advice in other words) when discussing politics and religion this week with the family.;-)))))
Peace,
Preston Peet
ptpeet@nyc.rr.com
Editor http://www.drugwar.com
Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
“Prohibition creates an irresistibly lucrative
opportunity for entrepreneurs willing to operate
in illicit business. It is the policy
of idealists who cannot appreciate that the use
of drugs often reflects other sets of human
ideals: human perfectibility, the yearning
for a perfect moment, the peace that comes
from oblivion.” Richard Davenport-Hines

From: MARC <marc420emery@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] re
Date: December 24, 2002 at 3:34:42 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Haven’t made any appointments yet with a Bernie. Ibogaine is very effective
in getting a person off methadone if they are highly motivated to get off
opiates and change their direction of their life (and very big
qualification).

Marc Emery
Iboga Therapy House

—– Original Message —–
From: <tbgelfling@aol.com>
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] re

I am not sure what you are talking about. All I know is that a friend of
mine told me he was going to Canada for Ibogaine treatment with Mark Emery.
His name is Bernie. He and his girlfriend, who was treated with Ibogaine in
Holland recently, used to be housemates of mine. We have all been on heroin
or methadone since meeting. I have been on Methadone and off Heroin for 3
years: 3 times longer than I used. I have a problem with the fact that I am
now more addicted to methadone than I ever was to Heroin. Of course, Meth is
the lesser of two evils, but make no mistake: it is evil. I feel taken
advantage of almost, as I didn’t know what I was getting into. I was 5 days
clean from a 3 or 4 month binge where I did $250.00 or 1gram of black tar
heroin a day to feel the way I wanted to. It was rough, but I’d made it 5
days, inpatient, and I was no longer really sick. No more vomiting, etc,
just that general feeling of malaise and depression. Then a counselor said
that since I had been in 3 times now, and was ‘so young and gifted’ it was
time to try methadone. 30 minutes after my dose, I was high again. That
stopped soon enough, but still, I was hooked. 35 milligrams a day has become
110: more than I weigh. I am tired of feeling like a robot. I just wanted to
know about your program. Tara
Tara Brown
Founder Creative Child Care
“no one, not even the rain, has such small hands”-ee cummings

From: Tbgelfling@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] re
Date: December 24, 2002 at 1:49:31 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I am not sure what you are talking about. All I know is that a friend of mine told me he was going to Canada for Ibogaine treatment with Mark Emery. His name is Bernie. He and his girlfriend, who was treated with Ibogaine in Holland recently, used to be housemates of mine. We have all been on heroin or methadone since meeting. I have been on Methadone and off Heroin for 3 years: 3 times longer than I used. I have a problem with the fact that I am now more addicted to methadone than I ever was to Heroin. Of course, Meth is the lesser of two evils, but make no mistake: it is evil. I feel taken advantage of almost, as I didn’t know what I was getting into. I was 5 days clean from a 3 or 4 month binge where I did $250.00 or 1gram of black tar heroin a day to feel the way I wanted to. It was rough, but I’d made it 5 days, inpatient, and I was no longer really sick. No more vomiting, etc, just that general feeling of malaise and depression. Then a counselor said that since I had been in 3 times now, and was ‘so young and gifted’ it was time to try methadone. 30 minutes after my dose, I was high again. That stopped soon enough, but still, I was hooked. 35 milligrams a day has become 110: more than I weigh. I am tired of feeling like a robot. I just wanted to know about your program. Tara
Tara Brown
Founder Creative Child Care
“no one, not even the rain, has such small hands”-ee cummings

From: Bill Ross <ross@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] re
Date: December 24, 2002 at 1:21:27 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

The sense I got from the SF meeting was that Mash is tired of
running St. Kitts and would gladly see it continue if the right
person could be found to run it.

Bill Ross

From: crownofthorns@hushmail.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Reply to Brett and Curtis
Date: December 23, 2002 at 8:43:20 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Bro, thank you for that! But I’ve just tried it, it keeps those areas greyed out and will not let me click the controls to add the root pw. Sorry, I will take this off the list I know it doesn’t belong here!

Peace out and happy holidays!
Curtis

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 07:06:17 -0800 Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu> wrote:
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 crownofthorns@hushmail.com wrote:

Earth to patrick, read your mail, or please answer: how do I start
root on osX? I don’t understand how a unix machine can run without
root, it’s in netinfo but I can’t change the password, how does
it run installs without root all it ever asks for is my password?
There are a lot of answers to this question online bro, but none
of them are working on osX 10.2.3

hey, here’s some info from developer.apple.com, hope it helps…

Mac OS X ships with the root account disabled. This is an intentional
security feature to limit the support problems that could arise
from
casual use of root. However, it is sometimes necessary for developers
to
switch to the root user, especially when developing kernel extensions.

There are a couple of ways to enable root access. One is to use
NetInfo
Manager to permanently enable the root account. This approach is
best on
development systems where there is a frequent need for root access.
Detailed instructions are given in the Kernel Extensions tutorial
document
in
/Developer/Documentation/Kernel/Tutorials/KEXTutorials/2Kernel/Test_the_Kernel_Extension.html.

The second approach is best for those situations where you need
temporary
access to root, such as on a system you wish to keep secure. In
this case,
use the sudo command in Terminal to either execute a single command
as
root or to get a root login prompt. Details are in the man page
for sudo:
type “man sudo” in Terminal to see the documentation.

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From: “Martin Polanco” <mptrum@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] re
Date: December 23, 2002 at 8:35:23 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Brett

You are right, relative safety, since ibogaine does have more risks than other medications.

M Polanco

From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] re
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:55:59 -0800 (PST)

> Brett, I did not mean that people should not be
> having this treatment or
> administering it, I just think that it is
> advantageous to do it under
> medical supervision.

Me too, or rather I would say there are advantages. I
guess what I hear sometimes is MINE IS BETTER THAN
YOURS – or even DON’T DO YOURS CAUSE I AM THE ONLY ONE
QUALIFIED. I don’t hear, THESE ARE THE
CHOICES/OPTIONS/COSTS…, TRADE-OFFS, PRO’s, CON’S,
now go make an informed decision on YOUR treatment
(screwed up in the head as addicts are, it is still
their decision). One thing I tell people is to get a
once over by a doctor, heart checked, liver, blood
chemistry… before taking ibo. This eliminates much
of those nasty un-diagnosed problems you mentioned.

> If the guide is experienced, follows protocol and
> screens the patient then
> the treatment can be given safely.

Absolutely – in relative safty anyway. That said there
is always a trade-off, ie, does someone who don’t know
squat do the ibo treatment themselves if it is the
only way to freedom??? I know I would and I know
people who have done just that – successfully. I would
rather see the entire worlds addicts with ibogaine
(not under medical supervision) than what we have – I
think we will come out far ahead even with the risks
and no doubt fatalities involved.

> I am willing to share our experience in treating
> patients with ibogaine and
> we are open to learn from other treatment providers.
> What makes you think that we have not taken
> ibogaine? I believe that it is

Have you? Anyway, I was speaking of trade-offs, some
have experience in some areas but not in others.

> essential to know what patients are going through.

Tell me about it (you are correct). If there is ever a
drug/medication doctors should take before giving it
to patients, ibogaine is it – IMO of course. Of course
there are a bunch of folks I would love to dose with
the stuff (and a few other things), would do em good.

> If it was not for a treatment provider that is not
> licensed/sanctified/glorified/FDA approved, a close
> family member would
> still be using drugs and we would have never started
> giving treatments.

I would be dead.

> In science it is customary to share information…

As in life. A lot can be said about those who like to
keep information to themselves.

> so Healing Visions is
> not closing but relocating.

Didn’t know that.

Thanks,
Brett

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From: crownofthorns@hushmail.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] re
Date: December 23, 2002 at 8:32:49 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I did ibogaine after I’d already been clean for over a year. I did not “need” to do it to detox and I wasn’t even looking for it, I was connecting to phantom.com which now points to mindvox and I ended up on this list reading all of this.

I would never have had the money to afford St. Kitts and I would never have spent the money to do ibogaine with medical supervision for $3,000 and up. I got ibogaine from a person I met on this list and received a lot of really great advice both on and off the list, before I took it. I would say doing ibogaine was one of the greatest experiences of my life and I am very grateful that I found it, this list, all of you. Before ibogaine I was clean but I was so down in the dumps about everything and I would not at all say I was happy or enjoying life. About 6 months later I don’t know exactly what I would say has changed, but I have changed or been changed, for the better, in all kinds of ways that I can’t always describe.

I don’t think there is any lack of doctors who used to be drug addicts, almost every doc I ever saw when I was going from treatment pimp to detox when I had a habit and a lot of insurance, were all former addicts. I don’t think there are many md’s who deal with addiction and stick with it, who are not prior addicts. One reason being that addicts aren’t going to listen much to someone who hasn’t been there and the other being I think it’s frustrating to work with addicts if you don’t understand what they’re going through.

I would also have to say I feel the same about ibogaine. If my liver was shot and I was on a lot of different drugs, then I would want a doc there who knew what he was doing. In any other situation I would want someone who was a addict and then got out of it all with ibogaine, because that’s the person I want to talk to and hear advice from. Someone who has done it and been there. The best of both worlds would of course be having the md there and someone else who understands what I’m dealing with from having been there.

I wanted to lay to rest anything I may have started, the SF conference for the parts I caught was very good, Beal, Kroupa and Mash make a good combo and present all of ibogaine from all the different sides. Dana was on target and did not start the PKD material, Kroupa and Mash both do total theater in different ways, they’re fun to watch 🙂 Yippie/hippie/cannabis/PKD freak, hacker/hardcore junkie/entheogen-proponent/genius-weirdo who now does neuroscience. and neuroscientist/genius-weirdo/entheogen proponent 😉 Pass the popcorn! The three of you should go tour talk shows. Cable talk shows, or ones with a time delay that bleep Patrick when he says “fuck” 😉

After that it went on a little bit too long and not to disrespect anyone who promotes cannabis, I am pro cannabis too! 🙂 I just didn’t understand why more then half of the conference had to be taken up with people who either knew nothing about ibogaine or addiction, or spent 5 minutes on it before going off about pot for an hour.

I don’t claim to know what Mash is doing, but if st. kitts is just moving, that’s the opposite of what she said, she said healing visions is being closed and that she is not doing ibogaine treatments anymore. I guess time will tell.

Peace out and happy holidays,
Curtis

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:31:30 -0800 Martin Polanco <mptrum@hotmail.com> wrote:

Curtis, no problem apology accepted.
Brett, I did not mean that people should not be having this treatment
or
administering it, I just think that it is advantageous to do it
under
medical supervision.
If the guide is experienced, follows protocol and screens the patient
then
the treatment can be given safely.
I am willing to share our experience in treating patients with ibogaine
and
we are open to learn from other treatment providers.
What makes you think that we have not taken ibogaine? I believe
that it is
essential to know what patients are going through.
If it was not for a treatment provider that is not
licensed/sanctified/glorified/FDA approved, a close family member
would
still be using drugs and we would have never started giving treatments.
We do not have the resources to do the research that Dr. Mash has
already
done and I was not making negative comments, I was just stating
the facts.
In science it is customary to share information to move the whole
field
forward and to give other scientists a solid footing from which
to do more
research.
Word through the grapevine says that she is closing St. Kitts but
opening
another treatment center elsewhere in the Caribbean so Healing Visions
is
not closing but relocating.

M Polanco

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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] re
Date: December 23, 2002 at 4:55:59 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Brett, I did not mean that people should not be
having this treatment or
administering it, I just think that it is
advantageous to do it under
medical supervision.

Me too, or rather I would say there are advantages. I
guess what I hear sometimes is MINE IS BETTER THAN
YOURS – or even DON’T DO YOURS CAUSE I AM THE ONLY ONE
QUALIFIED. I don’t hear, THESE ARE THE
CHOICES/OPTIONS/COSTS…, TRADE-OFFS, PRO’s, CON’S,
now go make an informed decision on YOUR treatment
(screwed up in the head as addicts are, it is still
their decision). One thing I tell people is to get a
once over by a doctor, heart checked, liver, blood
chemistry… before taking ibo. This eliminates much
of those nasty un-diagnosed problems you mentioned.

If the guide is experienced, follows protocol and
screens the patient then
the treatment can be given safely.

Absolutely – in relative safty anyway. That said there
is always a trade-off, ie, does someone who don’t know
squat do the ibo treatment themselves if it is the
only way to freedom??? I know I would and I know
people who have done just that – successfully. I would
rather see the entire worlds addicts with ibogaine
(not under medical supervision) than what we have – I
think we will come out far ahead even with the risks
and no doubt fatalities involved.

I am willing to share our experience in treating
patients with ibogaine and
we are open to learn from other treatment providers.
What makes you think that we have not taken
ibogaine? I believe that it is

Have you? Anyway, I was speaking of trade-offs, some
have experience in some areas but not in others.

essential to know what patients are going through.

Tell me about it (you are correct). If there is ever a
drug/medication doctors should take before giving it
to patients, ibogaine is it – IMO of course. Of course
there are a bunch of folks I would love to dose with
the stuff (and a few other things), would do em good.

If it was not for a treatment provider that is not
licensed/sanctified/glorified/FDA approved, a close
family member would
still be using drugs and we would have never started
giving treatments.

I would be dead.

In science it is customary to share information…

As in life. A lot can be said about those who like to
keep information to themselves.

so Healing Visions is
not closing but relocating.

Didn’t know that.

Thanks,
Brett

M Polanco

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From: “Martin Polanco” <mptrum@hotmail.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] re
Date: December 23, 2002 at 2:31:30 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Curtis, no problem apology accepted.
Brett, I did not mean that people should not be having this treatment or administering it, I just think that it is advantageous to do it under medical supervision.
If the guide is experienced, follows protocol and screens the patient then the treatment can be given safely.
I am willing to share our experience in treating patients with ibogaine and we are open to learn from other treatment providers.
What makes you think that we have not taken ibogaine? I believe that it is essential to know what patients are going through.
If it was not for a treatment provider that is not licensed/sanctified/glorified/FDA approved, a close family member would still be using drugs and we would have never started giving treatments.
We do not have the resources to do the research that Dr. Mash has already done and I was not making negative comments, I was just stating the facts.
In science it is customary to share information to move the whole field forward and to give other scientists a solid footing from which to do more research.
Word through the grapevine says that she is closing St. Kitts but opening another treatment center elsewhere in the Caribbean so Healing Visions is not closing but relocating.

M Polanco

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From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] x-mas greetings
Date: December 23, 2002 at 9:00:45 AM EST
To: <drugwar@mindvox.com>
Cc: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hello all,
I’m writing to wish you all to wish you all the best this week. Happy holidays. They mean something different to each and everyone of us most probably, but I’m most sincere in wishing you and yours a safe, warm and happy holiday.
To those on the DrugWar list, I’m outta here now for the week, so you are on your own. Please keep it civil when discussing the heated issues surrounding the War, and most of all, be constructive in whatever criticisms you may have.
Let’s all hope I do the same, (take my own advice in other words) when discussing politics and religion this week with the family.;-)))))
Peace,
Preston Peet
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Editor http://www.drugwar.com
Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
“Prohibition creates an irresistibly lucrative
opportunity for entrepreneurs willing to operate
in illicit business. It is the policy
of idealists who cannot appreciate that the use
of drugs often reflects other sets of human
ideals: human perfectibility, the yearning
for a perfect moment, the peace that comes
from oblivion.” Richard Davenport-Hines

From: Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Reply to Brett and Curtis
Date: December 23, 2002 at 10:06:17 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Reply to Brett and Curtis
Date: December 23, 2002 at 10:33:33 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Martin

I agree with Brett that hospitals can be dangerous
places. However, I believe that Ibogaine should be
taken under medical supervision, especially
for people who are detoxing from drugs.

Do you mean to say that in this imperfect world that
those folks being treated for their addiction (with
ibogaine) outside of licensed/bonified/glorified/FDA
approved medical care should not be having such
treatment?

Can you show any studies showing that ibogaine
treatment under “medical supervision” actually is more
effective than non-medical treatment? Can you show any
studies proving it is safer under medical supervision
vs not under supervision IF someone follows protocol –
cause we all know ibogaine can be dangerous (as with
any medication including aspirin) if improperly taken.

Can you show any studies showing that drug treatment
by drug treatment professionals is actually
better/less dangerous than any form of non-medical
treatment.

Can you show any studies showing that the medical
community has the vaguest clue what they are doing
when it comes to treating addicts? In my experience
they (medical community as a whole) flail around
blindly trying to “fix us”, control us, make money off
of us and seem to do more damage than anything else.
Can you dispute this observation mine?

Addicted individuals suffer from a variety of
un-diagnosed medical conditions which can complicate
the detoxificationprocess such as
hypoglycemia, infections, etc.

Perhaps you will share your experiences treating these
complications as it relates to the detoxification with
ibogaine. This is NOT to say that I believe that
treatment by non-medical professionals should ignore
medical conditions if they arise and get them medical
treatment where necessary.

During the initial phase of a detoxification with
Ibogaine, complications
can occur which might require medical treatment, for
example; dehydration
from vomiting, bradycardia, among others.

Again, perhaps you will share your experience with
non-medical treatment providers so that they can have
a better understanding of what to do or when to bring
the patient to a doctor? Yes, I know – always check
with your physician, lawyer and clergy before doing
anything in life… is that it?

Regarding the comment made by Curtis I feel that it
is arrogant and ignorant
to assume that only Drs. licensed in the US are
competent.

And it is arrogant and ignorant (and a few other
things) to assume that all people belonging to “YOUR
CLUB” are competent.

Here is a good one from 60 minutes last knight. There
are counterfeit drugs that the drug companies,
doctors, pharmacies… are not required to tell
patients or even report to the FDA (or any other
government – yeah right – agency) of said drugs. This
is not just that they could be BOGUS, that they could
be dangerous in and of themselves. That is OK? When
you guys (the medical community) put patients first,
above profits, above ratting out your friend in your
club – then speak to me. It was pathetic watching last
night, people paying tens of thousands of dollars for
medication that is killing them and no-one is required
(even if they knew) to tell the patient or announce it
to the customer base – it is BAD for business to
announce to the world that SOMEONE may be
counterfeiting your medication. This is just one tiny
example of what a crock of shit the medical community
is – that we are safe in your hands. This is NOT to
say that there isn’t fine treatment out there and fine
doctors (just like there are fine/safe ibo-treatment
providers) – there are, and then there are those… Or
you could talk about the “doctors” who were found out
to be unqualified but slipped through the cracks and
were swept under the table – still unqualified…
happens all the time.

Dr. Mash might claim that other treatment providers
have no idea of what
they are doing and she is entitled to her opinion

And there are things MASH has very little
understanding of. There is nothing that can take the
place of a few decades “out there” (using) or what it
is like to actually go through ibogaine treatment –
there is NO WAY to communicate it or understand it
like someone who actually did it. So, the flip side of
the coin is you lose some “understanding” by having
non-ibo-initiated/non-addiction-recovered doctors
treating you vs an ibogaine guide – there are always
trade-offs.

since she is the
researcher with the most extensive experience in
this field.
It is disappointing that instead of sharing her
knowledge to make treatments
safer she continues to criticize the efforts of
others trying to make this
treatment more available at an affordable cost.

And maybe she doesn’t have any special magic? Show me
where it says her version of ibo treatment is better
than anyone elses – in other words the results are all
over the place, with hers orelse’sne elses? YES, there
are some (by doctors even – and I will NOT comment on
someone specifically) treatments that are poorly done
and others that are somewhat better. for instance,
Sara’s method of using Indra extract for methadone
patients does seem to make it less of a problem than
other types of treatment using ibogaine HCL. Which
also brings me to a point that MD’s don’t like to take
advice from non-MD’s, cause we don’t know shit and you
know everything – or so it seems. When YOU (the
medical community) are more teachable and listen to us
(addicts) you will be more effective.

And by the way, how were you going to get ibo
treatment to addicts who are “out there” and cannot
afford several thousand (or more) dollars and fly to a
limited number of locations (outside the US). Also,
how do you get ibo treatment to someone on
parole/probation in the US who cannot travel outside
of the county they live in much less leave the
country?

Brett Calabrese Addict/Ret./Happy

One last thing. Perhaps you would be willing to
provide your services/experience to ibogaine “guides”.
Maybe review medical tests/protocol for them or be “on
call” in case they have any problems that arrise
during treatment. Or maybe you would like to help
set-up ibogaine clinics outside the US, I have an idea
for the Bahamas since it is so close to FL and a very
large “recovery” area in Dade/Broward and Palm Beach
counties.

M Polanco MD.

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From: Ustanova Iboga <Iboga@guest.arnes.si>
Subject: [ibogaine] test
Date: December 23, 2002 at 10:26:53 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

testing
me
too!

From: crownofthorns@hushmail.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Reply to Brett and Curtis
Date: December 22, 2002 at 11:53:55 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Mash did say she is closing St. Kitts, said she’s sick of it and has other things to do with her time that keep her department funded. Her main interest was restarting clinical trials in the us.

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Peace out,
Curtis

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:19:53 -0800 brendan22@hushmail.com wrote:

Besides all that, I thought Mash was closing St. Kitts anyway and
said that in San Francisco, so there isn’t anything left to argue
about because the chances that she is going to start handing out
her info without having it published first is zero. Curtis, you
said she said that, I think you said it, did she?

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From: crownofthorns@hushmail.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Reply to Brett and Curtis
Date: December 22, 2002 at 11:51:33 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Bro you are right, I apoligise to you for that. It’s a common attitude in america and I’m an american but I should not have written it like that. What Brendan said makes sense to me though bro, you have md’s, so get some scientists and fill in the blanks for yourself. Sounds like a great idea to me.

Peace out,
Curtis

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:18:00 -0800 Martin Polanco <mptrum@hotmail.com> wrote:

I agree with Brett that hospitals can be dangerous places. However,
I
believe that Ibogaine should be taken under medical supervision,
especially
for people who are detoxing from drugs.
Addicted individuals suffer from a variety of un-diagnosed medical

conditions which can complicate the detoxification process such
as
hypoglycemia, infections, etc.
During the initial phase of a detoxification with Ibogaine, complications

can occur which might require medical treatment, for example; dehydration

from vomiting, bradycardia, among others.
Regarding the comment made by Curtis I feel that it is arrogant
and ignorant
to assume that only Drs. licensed in the US are competent.
Dr. Mash might claim that other treatment providers have no idea
of what
they are doing and she is entitled to her opinion since she is the

researcher with the most extensive experience in this field.
It is disappointing that instead of sharing her knowledge to make
treatments
safer she continues to criticize the efforts of others trying to
make this
treatment more available at an affordable cost.

M Polanco MD.

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From: brendan22@hushmail.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Reply to Brett and Curtis
Date: December 22, 2002 at 10:19:53 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

If you’re one of the doctors in Mexico, then I doubt that making negative comments about Mash is going to do anything at all except maybe make Patrick wake up and write 15 paragraphs explaining why everything you said is wrong. If you are treating people with ibogaine then instead of wishing that Mash would share whatever she knows, which face it is not going to happen until she feels like writing it up and publishing it. I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one either, I imagine it’ll happen right around when Mindvox opens. Why don’t you go get some scientists of your own who are interested in ibogaine and figure it out like she did.

Out of all the people who do ibogaine treatment in any way shape or form who are all on this list, I’ve seen each one of them post messages about why their therapy or what they know is more important then what everyone else does, but out of all of you, you might all have different reasons but you all act exactly the same way.

The only person I’ve ever seen being open and detailed about what they are honestly doing is Marc Emory. He’s the only one. I’m impressed by what Marc is doing and I dont say that to kiss up to him, because I’m not a junkie, I drink, if I ever decide to do ibogaine I’ll get it from the same place Curtis got his, which is a lot cheaper then St. Kitts, Mexico or even plane tickets to Canada.

Besides all that, I thought Mash was closing St. Kitts anyway and said that in San Francisco, so there isn’t anything left to argue about because the chances that she is going to start handing out her info without having it published first is zero. Curtis, you said she said that, I think you said it, did she?

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:18:00 -0800 Martin Polanco <mptrum@hotmail.com> wrote:

I agree with Brett that hospitals can be dangerous places. However,
I
believe that Ibogaine should be taken under medical supervision,
especially
for people who are detoxing from drugs.
Addicted individuals suffer from a variety of un-diagnosed medical

conditions which can complicate the detoxification process such
as
hypoglycemia, infections, etc.
During the initial phase of a detoxification with Ibogaine, complications

can occur which might require medical treatment, for example; dehydration

from vomiting, bradycardia, among others.
Regarding the comment made by Curtis I feel that it is arrogant
and ignorant
to assume that only Drs. licensed in the US are competent.
Dr. Mash might claim that other treatment providers have no idea
of what
they are doing and she is entitled to her opinion since she is the

researcher with the most extensive experience in this field.
It is disappointing that instead of sharing her knowledge to make
treatments
safer she continues to criticize the efforts of others trying to
make this
treatment more available at an affordable cost.

M Polanco MD.

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From: “Martin Polanco” <mptrum@hotmail.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] Reply to Brett and Curtis
Date: December 22, 2002 at 9:18:00 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I agree with Brett that hospitals can be dangerous places. However, I believe that Ibogaine should be taken under medical supervision, especially for people who are detoxing from drugs.
Addicted individuals suffer from a variety of un-diagnosed medical conditions which can complicate the detoxification process such as hypoglycemia, infections, etc.
During the initial phase of a detoxification with Ibogaine, complications can occur which might require medical treatment, for example; dehydration
from vomiting, bradycardia, among others.
Regarding the comment made by Curtis I feel that it is arrogant and ignorant to assume that only Drs. licensed in the US are competent.
Dr. Mash might claim that other treatment providers have no idea of what they are doing and she is entitled to her opinion since she is the researcher with the most extensive experience in this field.
It is disappointing that instead of sharing her knowledge to make treatments safer she continues to criticize the efforts of others trying to make this treatment more available at an affordable cost.

M Polanco MD.

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From: “Martin Polanco” <mptrum@hotmail.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] test
Date: December 22, 2002 at 1:10:17 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

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From: Laurie Kardon <lauriekardon@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 21, 2002 at 10:19:38 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Big surprise 🙂 I don’t think I’ve read one person
from this list who has ever had anything positive to
say about rehab or the 12 steps. Everything I ever
read lumps it into the same category as being
addicted, meaning yet another obstacle that had to be
overcome in order to get off drugs. Addiction, rehab,
NA and AA, all the same swamp.

still trying to get out of all that myself, cheers and
happy holidays!

laurie

— crownofthorns@hushmail.com wrote: >

I’ve got to go with Brett on this one. Medical
supervision sounds good but I’d almost go with it
being dangerously close to false advertising. What
does “medical supervision” mean? A doctor who is
licensed in some country other then the US is
somewhere nearby when you’re dosed. I don’t get
involved with the negative energy here or when
people start up on one another with who has the
greatest ibogaine treatment and most experience but
the impression I got in San Francisco was that Mash
said that most of the treatment providers don’t have
any idea what they’re doing. She didn’t do any scare
stories or harp about it and for the time I was
there it was all a positive gathering, but that’s
almost the same I have from Patrick, except he never
communicates exactly and doesn’t say anything about
anything. I understand you have nondisclosures with
Mash but you’re also High Priest in your church that
conveniently distributes if not most, then I’d have
to guess more then half of all the
ibogaine hcl in the world 😉 Don’t tell me you go
to St. Kitts if you want a tune up bro, you and Mash
have your mutual admiration society going, but
you’ve never said a word about any “treatment”
anyone tried to give you, except to describe them as
“a bunch of idiots in my face” and of course one of
your contributions to slang the “treatment pimps”
😉 From what I’ve read of your writing where you’re
much less guarded there isn’t anything about the
medical supervision you’ve ever written, but you
have a lot of words about what a joke “treatment”
was. You in fact have a lot of words about rehab in
this very issue of Heroin Times, none of them good
😉

http://herointimes.com/dec02/detox.html

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From: crownofthorns@hushmail.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 21, 2002 at 9:02:57 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I’ve got to go with Brett on this one. Medical supervision sounds good but I’d almost go with it being dangerously close to false advertising. What does “medical supervision” mean? A doctor who is licensed in some country other then the US is somewhere nearby when you’re dosed. I don’t get involved with the negative energy here or when people start up on one another with who has the greatest ibogaine treatment and most experience but the impression I got in San Francisco was that Mash said that most of the treatment providers don’t have any idea what they’re doing. She didn’t do any scare stories or harp about it and for the time I was there it was all a positive gathering, but that’s almost the same I have from Patrick, except he never communicates exactly and doesn’t say anything about anything. I understand you have nondisclosures with Mash but you’re also High Priest in your church that conveniently distributes if not most, then I’d have to guess more then half of all the
ibogaine hcl in the world 😉 Don’t tell me you go to St. Kitts if you want a tune up bro, you and Mash have your mutual admiration society going, but you’ve never said a word about any “treatment” anyone tried to give you, except to describe them as “a bunch of idiots in my face” and of course one of your contributions to slang the “treatment pimps” 😉 From what I’ve read of your writing where you’re much less guarded there isn’t anything about the medical supervision you’ve ever written, but you have a lot of words about what a joke “treatment” was. You in fact have a lot of words about rehab in this very issue of Heroin Times, none of them good 😉

http://herointimes.com/dec02/detox.html

Peace out,
Curtis

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 07:11:18 -0800 Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com> wrote:
— Mzzthangg13@aol.com wrote:
you have to go to a medical facility…do not do it
with these underground
people it could be dangerous………look up
ibogaine locations on the web
karina

One could also say “don’t go to a medical facility, it
could be dangerous…”.

I think it would be a mistake to assume that just
because treatment is given in a medical facility means
it is safe or because it is not means it is more
dangerous – hospitals are one of the most dangerous
places on earth. That said I would love for everyone
to be able to “check-in” to their local medical
facility/treatment center for ibogaine treatment on
demand and at price they can afford – that option is
scarce and not covered by insurance. Also being a
doctor/work in a medical facility does NOT mean you
have had your ass-hole taken away or that they will
give better treatment. If I am not mistaken one
ibogaine “death” was after being administered by a
Physician (Baumann) in violation of protocol.

Nothing WRONG with seeking ibogaine treatment (or any
other) under medical supervision if that is how one
chooses. Unrelated case in point. My Fiance just had a
lipoma removed, I watched (and chomped at the bit).
Let me tell you that was the worst case of sterile
technique I have ever seen in my life, the sewing job
was pathetic – I certainly could have done far better.
Last Friday (Friday the 13th) while preparing for an
office party (at our house) and within an hour of each
other Vivian managed to dislocate her toe (which I
fixed) and I sliced deeply into my thumb while carving
ONE of the turkeys. I had no problem
re-locating/wrapping/putting on ice her toe… and no
problem sewing myself up (quite nicely). This is
nothing I have not done before (I was a Hospital
Corpsman, EMT, qualified as a LPN, Operating room
tech… set bones/casted people, sewed people, did
minor surgeries myself). Maybe for YOU it would be
more dangerous than being treated in a medical
facility but for me it was likely safer (closing the
wound so fast helped healing and limited infection vs
a long delay going to an ER) and far cheaper – we both
were fine for the party which would not have happened
if we were both in the ER, waiting…

All that said IBOGAINE does present some danger and
following of protocol (by whoever) is necessary to
ensure safe passage.

Here are some numbers for ya to give you an idea of
the inherent dangers of going to a medical facility
(said only to see the other side of the “coin”);

(Medscape you need free registration)

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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 20, 2002 at 5:37:58 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Steve,

“stuck up at knife point ”

It is nice to see you are having such a good time,
“out there”…

“Today I had my worst day ever. ”

It seemed like a good day to me, you are lucky and
came off easy, it could have been much worse – ie you
could be in the Can or hurt…

“Maybe God is trying to tell me something.”

Nah, ya think? Anyway, we wouldn’t want your “last
days out there” to be all fun and glory, would we?
today was actually good for you (truth be told)?

“I don’t want to be sick over the holiday. I’ll be the
life of the fucking party”

Have fun and by the way, small amounts of ibogaine
might help you a bit if you don’t have your fix (don’t
mix ibo and opiates). A product called Rescue Remedy
can also help with the “stress”.

Now, during this process of “recovery”, when Ibogaine
gives you the opportunity, take it. When you think of
using again (and the thought will cross your mind),
remember this day, remember it could get worse,
remember being free from having to go through stuff
like this.

You had a good day my friend.

Brett

— steve diamond <stevediamond79@hotmail.com> wrote:
I did not take it yet. I am going to do it Friday
December 27. I wish it was
today. Today I had my worst day ever. I got beat for
over $100. I have to go
out of town with my family. I don’t want to be sick
over the holiday. I’ll
be the life of the fucking party. Then I got stuck
up at knife point and had
my cell phone stolen. I tired to put up a fight but
I was surrounded. They
got the last of my cash and my phone. Maybe God is
trying to tell me
something. This life is insane. I wish I had never
seen narcotics. I just
need a clean start.

I’ll let you know how my experience turns out.

Steve Diamond

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<DIV></DIV>&gt;&gt;i took ibogaine in july i did not
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I was wondering if you obtained your Ibo from a great
guy named Jason. If so, you are double lucky. Jason is
a friend and real proffesional. Could you supply me
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to your expectations. <BR>I am part of a group that is
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From: “steve diamond” <stevediamond79@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] To Steve Diamond/ Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 20, 2002 at 3:26:54 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Thanks for all the positive feedback. I’m ready for this. I have faith it is going to work. My facilitator never heard of IBO before I brought it up and he can’t believe how much faith I have in it. He is ready to sit by and watch me because he cares about me.

The last few months have been very bad. My wife does not know I am using again and it takes a lot of work to hide everything from the money to the parafinalia to the sniffles, lack of sexual desire and so on. I’m just down on myself and I feel jinxed. Getting stuck up today was just par for the course. 7 days from today I’ll be on a new path and I’m counting the minutes. Now I just have to get through the next week without getting busted by my wife or the cops, without getting very sick at my in-laws house and without getting stabbed in the hood.

Steve Diamond

From: MARC <marc420emery@shaw.ca>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: [ibogaine] To Steve Diamond/ Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:42:37 -0800

Hello Steve,

My name is Marc Emery. I am one of the facillitators that administered
Ibogaine to Sheldon.

The Ibogaine experience is something that cannot be isolated as to duration
of experience. Meaning, yesterday, a patient was administered ibogaine
(first treatment), had 8 hours of visualizations, and today, 24 hours later,
she is walking around and lightly conversational. She will be fine to leave
(if she so desires), possibly 24 hours from now, although we expect her to
stay another 48 hours. However, another patient, a male, was administered
ibogaine 48 hours ago, and visualized for 30 hours, and is having a very
serious session, is still in bed and will require care for another 2 – 3
days, we expect he will stay another 3 – 7 days. When I say ‘serious
session’, he is seeing so much of his life, his mistakes, his pain, his
past, that his Zen masters are really going over it with him.

We treat 3 – 4 now individuals weekly and the experiences have many
commonalities to we, the facillitators, but inside each mind the trip is
very personal. Stays range from 3 – 8 days. We prefer a lengthier stay (as
long as patients are co-operative). Every patient reports an improved
attitude, physical health, and other benefits by the 2 – 3 week after
period, but prior to that, only 2 – 3 hours of sleep is required nightly for
about 10 – 25 days after ibogaine, plus there are are other transitional
peculiarities. Sheldon has much experience he could impart to you.

Marc Emery
Iboga Therapy House

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From: “steve diamond” <stevediamond79@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.

> What do you mean, you did not feel right until October? Now I’m getting
> scared. I have to go back to work four days after I am going to take it.
> Could you have gone back to work even though you did not feel “right?”
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
> >Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
> >To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
> >Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
> >Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:27:31 EST
> >
> >i took ibogaine in july i did not feel right till october…..now it’s
all
> >good!!!!!! i was on 100 mgs. of methadone……..karina
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From: “steve diamond” <stevediamond79@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 20, 2002 at 3:14:05 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I did not take it yet. I am going to do it Friday December 27. I wish it was today. Today I had my worst day ever. I got beat for over $100. I have to go out of town with my family. I don’t want to be sick over the holiday. I’ll be the life of the fucking party. Then I got stuck up at knife point and had my cell phone stolen. I tired to put up a fight but I was surrounded. They got the last of my cash and my phone. Maybe God is trying to tell me something. This life is insane. I wish I had never seen narcotics. I just need a clean start.

I’ll let you know how my experience turns out.

Steve Diamond

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Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 18, 2002 at 12:48:59 PM EST
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>What do you mean, you did not feel right until October? Now I’m

>getting scared. I have to go back to work four days after I am going

>to take it. Could you have gone back to work even though you did not

>feel “right?”

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>>From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com

>>Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>>To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>>Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.

>>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:27:31 EST

>>

>>i took ibogaine in july i did not feel right till october…..now

>>it’s all

>>good!!!!!! i was on 100 mgs. of methadone……..karina

>

> STEVE: Saw your post. You mention doing your’s in Canada.
I was wondering if you obtained your Ibo from a great guy named Jason. If so, you are double lucky. Jason is a friend and real proffesional. Could you supply me with a few details regarding your experience? Dose, what form, route of administration, results compared to your expectations.
I am part of a group that is opening a clinic in Mexico. Jason is our prefered supplier. If you obtained you Ibo from another supplier, could you provide me with a contact? I am always looking for additional information. It all adds-up to better quality of patient care.
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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 20, 2002 at 10:11:18 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

— Mzzthangg13@aol.com wrote:
you have to go to a medical facility…do not do it
with these underground
people it could be dangerous………look up
ibogaine locations on the web
karina

One could also say “don’t go to a medical facility, it
could be dangerous…”.

I think it would be a mistake to assume that just
because treatment is given in a medical facility means
it is safe or because it is not means it is more
dangerous – hospitals are one of the most dangerous
places on earth. That said I would love for everyone
to be able to “check-in” to their local medical
facility/treatment center for ibogaine treatment on
demand and at price they can afford – that option is
scarce and not covered by insurance. Also being a
doctor/work in a medical facility does NOT mean you
have had your ass-hole taken away or that they will
give better treatment. If I am not mistaken one
ibogaine “death” was after being administered by a
Physician (Baumann) in violation of protocol.

Nothing WRONG with seeking ibogaine treatment (or any
other) under medical supervision if that is how one
chooses. Unrelated case in point. My Fiance just had a
lipoma removed, I watched (and chomped at the bit).
Let me tell you that was the worst case of sterile
technique I have ever seen in my life, the sewing job
was pathetic – I certainly could have done far better.
Last Friday (Friday the 13th) while preparing for an
office party (at our house) and within an hour of each
other Vivian managed to dislocate her toe (which I
fixed) and I sliced deeply into my thumb while carving
ONE of the turkeys. I had no problem
re-locating/wrapping/putting on ice her toe… and no
problem sewing myself up (quite nicely). This is
nothing I have not done before (I was a Hospital
Corpsman, EMT, qualified as a LPN, Operating room
tech… set bones/casted people, sewed people, did
minor surgeries myself). Maybe for YOU it would be
more dangerous than being treated in a medical
facility but for me it was likely safer (closing the
wound so fast helped healing and limited infection vs
a long delay going to an ER) and far cheaper – we both
were fine for the party which would not have happened
if we were both in the ER, waiting…

All that said IBOGAINE does present some danger and
following of protocol (by whoever) is necessary to
ensure safe passage.

Here are some numbers for ya to give you an idea of
the inherent dangers of going to a medical facility
(said only to see the other side of the “coin”);

(Medscape you need free registration)

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/408053

The 1991 New York study reported that adverse events
due to medical errors occurred in 3.7% of hospitalized
patients, with 13.6% of the adverse events actually
leading to death. In the Colorado and Utah study,
adverse events occurred in 2.9% of hospitalizations,
with 8.8% of these resulting in death. Extrapolation
of these data implies that between 44,000 and 98,000
patients die each year as a result of medical errors,
with an estimated overall cost to society of between
$17 billion and $29 billion.[4]

http://lists.netlojix.com/pipermail/chirolist/Week-of-Mon-20000117/000107.html

** The NEW YORK TIMES reported that 5% of people
admitted to hospitals, or about 1.8 million people per
year, in the U.S. pick up an infection while there.[1]
Such infections are called  “iatrogenic” — meaning
“induced by a physician,” or, more loosely, “caused by
medical care.” Iatrogenic infections are directly
responsible for 20,000 deaths among hospital patients
in the U.S. each year, and they contribute to an
additional 70,000 deaths, according to the federal
Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The dollar cost of
iatrogenic infections is $4.5 billion, according to
the CDC….

A study conducted at the Duke University Medical
Center found that only 17% of physicians treating
patients in an intensive care unit washed their hands
appropriately.[1]…

There are about 33.6 million people admitted to
hospitals each year in the U.S. Somewhere between 2.9%
and 3.7% (average: 3.3%) of these suffer an “adverse
event” while in the hospital.[2,pg.1] An “adverse
event” is defined as an injury caused by medical
management rather than by the underlying disease or
condition of the patient.[2,pg.25] Of these adverse
events, somewhere between 8.8% and 13.6% (average:
11.2%) are fatal.[2,pg.1] Of all adverse events,
somewhere between 53% and 58% (average: 55.5%) are
attributable to mistakes.[2,pg.22]

Or if you really want to get into the numbers

http://www.iatrogenic.org/library/mederrorlib2.html.

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From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Timberlake smoking pot at Lotus Bar in NYC
Date: December 20, 2002 at 9:17:56 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>I can’t understand why they have not advertised or at least
notified people here as to ibogain and its properties.l   Does no govt.
legislation support it??  Youd think the methadone clinic would take a good
look at it.   I ‘m probably repeating what lots of people have said over
time but still felt I wanted to say it anyway…..<

I never once heard a single “official” rehab type tell me a single thing about ibogaine back when I seeking help. I did have a couple addicts who’d taken it tell me about it, but they were back on the streets strung out at the time after paying a goodly sum of money for it, so I didn’t pay much attention.
Peace,
Preston
—– Original Message —–
From: Alison Senepart
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Timberlake smoking pot at Lotus Bar in NYC

Mostly it comes back to the same thing , money, money and more money.  There
is so much talk and hypopricy abut drugs….   Govt members trot out their
same old spech hoping to gain votes while not upsettng too many people.  Its
all a juggle act and it gets caught up in politics, personal aspirations
etc.  which don’t even take into account the poor person in the middle,  the
addict struggling to get help etc.
It shouldn’t really come down to that level.  Drug changes should come from
an independant group of poeple.   That probably sounds naive and not
workable but I still think it would be a great idea for politicians to
actually take note of what the general public are asking for and look at
more advanced or better ways of getting addicts or people with problems on
track.    There are so many out there screaming for help and not getting it
or not knowing where to go to get it.  Don’t know what its like in other
places but there is about a 6 month at least waiting list to get on the
methadone programme here in NZ South Island and nothing is being done to
sort it in the near future to make that any faster.  How many addicts who
are desperate and wanting help can go home and wait for six months.,  That
must be the biggest joke out.    News reports state large numbers waiting
and trying to get help but its not available due to lack of staff and
financing.  .  I can’t understand why they have not advertised or at least
notified people here as to ibogain and its properties.l   Does no govt.
legislation support it??  Youd think the methadone clinic would take a good
look at it.   I ‘m probably repeating what lots of people have said over
time but still felt I wanted to say it anyway…..  Allison
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From: preston peet <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
To: drugwar@mindvox.com <drugwar@mindvox.com>
Cc: ibogaine@mindvox.com <ibogaine@mindvox.com>; CRRH <restore@crrh.org>
Date: Friday, 20 December 2002 00:07
Subject: [ibogaine] Timberlake smoking pot at Lotus Bar in NYC

>The editor of DrugWar.com was actually at this bar the same night, (the
same
>bar where my girlfriend bartends and where she asked Rep. Harold Ford a
>couple weeks ago when he was going to lobby to legalize marijuana) but
>unfortunately
>  missed out on smoking with Justin Timberlake. Darn. The editor would have
>loved to
>  ask him about his ONDCP commercials, (see below for complete story on
that
>little arrangement) among other things.
>
>
>CANNABIS USE ‘JUSTIFIED’
>Justine Timberlake seen smoking pot in NYC with Mom
>http://www.dotmusic.com/news/December2002/news27683.asp
>
>
>(the original URL for the following story is dead, but was published at
>Hightimes.com last year.)
>
>”Do you ever wonder why this music gets you higher?”- “Pop” by NSYNC, (Jive
>Records- 2001)
>Wasteful Spending by the ONDCP Media Campaign
>
>Preston Peet- High Times News
>
>The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy,
>(www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov), has forged an $800,000 alliance with Pop
>sensations NSYNC as part of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign,
>(http://www.mediacampaign.org/).
>
>A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read or Waste
>
>The boy group is running a “What’s Your Anti-Drug” “public service
>announcement” for the ONDCP on their website, (www.nsync.com), as well as
>during each show of their ongoing 45-date Celebrity 2001 tour. The PSA
>features group members listing a variety of activities, such as “mind
>reading,” “hand puppets,” and more, telling viewers, “These are our
>anti-drugs. What’s yours?” This PSA is part of an $800,000 Media Campaign
ad
>buy deal worked out between Ogilvy and Mather, (Ogilvy),
>(http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-01-623), which manages the Media
>Campaign Advertising component of the Campaign, and MusicVision,
>(www.musicvision.com), an ad agency specializing in managing music
websites,
>including NSYNC’s.
>
>Congress authorized, in 1997, up to $195 million a year for the 5-year
ONDCP
>Media Campaign, (now in Phase III), as reported in depth here at HT,
>(http://www.hightimes.com/News/2000_08/swindle.tpl).
>
> For every dollar spent on advertising by the ONDCP, there is to be a
>pro-bono match donated by the organization which sells the ad space. This
>was meant by Congress to ensure the well-funded Media Campaign ads do not
>supplant free ads already being produced by groups such as the Partnership
>for a Drug Free America, (www.drugfreeamerica.org).
>
>”The talent for the PSA was not paid and was not credited as part of the
>match. That was outside of the ad buy,” Ann Saybolt at the
Fleishman-Hillard
>public relations firm, the Outreach Contractor for the Media Campaign,
>carefully stressed to HT. “That is sort of a standard thing for the ONDCP,
>that ONDCP doesn’t pay for talent.” She explained for HT just what the
ONDCP
>spent $800,000 taxpayer dollars to get from NSYNC in this web-based ad buy.
>”That includes advertising on their website, it includes all the features
on
>their website, it includes the anti-drug micro site at www.nsync.com, it
>includes all the banner advertising, the whole page link to the anti-drug
>micro site and then the development and production. They completely
produced
>that, all of that content online.” The time spent by NSYNC filming the
>30-second spot, and their showing the PSA both online and at concerts,
>qualifies as the pro-bono match owed by Music Vision to the ONDCP.
>
>Who The Hell is Watching the Money?
>
>The NSYNC PSA was produced “from beginning to end,” according to Saybolt,
by
>Madison Avenue advertising giant Ogilvy, which was awarded the Phase III,
>cost-reimbursement contract by the ONDCP 3 years ago, for a total value of
>$684 million. Ogilvy has been under investigation by the Government
>Accounting Office for shady billing practices,
>(http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0134t.pdf), and June 25, 2001, the GAO
>released yet another report, (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01623.pdf),
>noting the “US Government disallowed $7.6 Million out of $24.2 Million in
>total labor cost billed by Ogilvy for the first 19 months of their
>involvement with the Campaign.” This has been referred to the US Department
>of Justice for possible further action.
>
>”We found that some of Ogilvy’s labor charges to the Government, [read: US
>Taxpayers], were not reliable, and included charges for time that its
>employees did not work on the contract. According to company officials, and
>an internal company e-mail, after revenue on the contract did not meet
>projections in the Summer of 1999, certain Ogilvy managers instructed some
>employees to review and revise their time sheets,” reads the latest GAO
>report. “Some Ogilvy employees told us that they initially did not record
>all their work on the ONDCP contract and that they revised their time
sheets
>to increase the number of hours that they claimed to have worked. However,
>some of the employees told us they did not work the amount of additional
>time that was added to their time sheets or could not fully explain why
they
>increased the number of hours billed to the ONDCP contract. Time sheets for
>other employees, (not those who changes their time sheets after certain
>Ogilvy managers instructed them to), also showed changes that increased the
>number of hours charged for the ONDCP work; however, some employees said
>they did not make those changes to their time sheets, nor could they
explain
>who made the changes and why.” Not only did Ogilvy overcharge the
>Government, but the ONDCP has been engaged in seriously lax management of
>the multi-million dollar contract.
>
>Is the Campaign Geared Towards Youth, or Congressional Drug Warrior
>Moneymen?
>
>”The goal is to surround teens with vital drug use prevention messages,
>provide adults with practical information to help them raise drug-free
kids,
>and encourage accurate portrayal of drug issues in entertainment media so
>that pop culture does not perpetuate myths about drugs and drug use,” reads
>the stated goals of the ONDCP’s Entertainment Outreach efforts,
>(http://www.mediacampaign.org/newsroom/080299/update7.html) in the Media
>Campaign.
>
>”Well, I think that the message in the PSA is the Anti-Drugs, the
anti-drugs
>listed in that spot, things that keep kids, that stand between kids and
>drugs, that keep kids interested, that they’re passionate about,” stammered
>Saybolt when asked if NSYNC presenting mind reading, scary movies,
>tiddlywinks, and baroque minimalism to America’s youth as Anti-Drugs was an
>efficacious way to combat drug use.
>
>”A variety of celebrities have appeared in PSAs that support the goals of
>the Campaign and spoken publicly about Campaign themes and goals,”
according
>to a press release Saybolt sent HT. “Youth and parents nationwide have
heard
>celebrity voices from a range of entertainment genres, including: TV (e.g.,
>Eriq La Salle of NBC’s ER, Jenna Elfman of
>ABC’s Dharma & Greg, Ken Olin of CBS’s LA Doctors, Lisa Nicole Carter of
>Fox’s Alley McBeal, Marc Blucas of ABC’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and
>Hector Elizando of Chicago Hope), film, popular music (e.g., Lauryn Hill,
>Mary G. Blige, The Dixie Chicks, MTV VJ Tyrese, NSYNC), amateur and
>professional sports (e.g., U.S. Women’s Soccer Team, Olympic Gold Medallist
>Tara Lipinski, Mike Modano of the NHL Champion Dallas Stars), comedy (e.g.,
>Howie Mandel), pop culture (e.g., Miss America 1999 Nicole Johnson, Marvel
>Comics’ Spiderman).”
>
>While the Media Campaign continues valiantly trying to brainwash and
>behaviorally condition American youth,
>(http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id206/pg1/), buying slick
>advertisements, with sports and pop culture luminaries pushing the US
>Government prohibitionist line, NY reporter Dan Forbes broke the story in
>Salon, June 30, 2001,
>(http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/06/30/ondcp/index.html), that the
>controversial ONDCP practice of “paying tv networks for putting anti-drug
>messages in popular tv shows,” was quietly suspended May 31, 2001, in a
>directive signed by Acting Director of ONDCP, Edward Jurith. As this only
>effects 20 percent or so of the Media Campaign tv ad budget, it is unclear
>what effect this will have on the FCC order Dec. 2000, in responce to a
>complaint filed by NORML Feb. 2000, requiring the ONDCP to take credit for
>anti-drug messages presented to the public. The FCC ruling is being
appealed
>by the Ad Council,
>(http://www.drugtext.org/press/webster/apr00/%5B%5D%20Norml’s%20Complaint%2
0
>Against%20Ondcp%20Is%20Under%20Review.htm), “which is responsible for
>designing advertising campaigns that publishers and broadcasters can choose
>from,” for the Media Campaign, according to Ira Teinowitz of Ad Age,
>(http://www.adage.com/news_and_features/features/20010327/article2.html).
>The Ad Council is alleging that if the government has to take credit for
its
>anti-drug ads, that will confuse the public and the intended target
>audience.
>
>Countering the Propaganda
>
>”It’s not mind reading that’s anti-drug, it’s mind control,” noted author,
>publisher and satirist Paul Krassner,
>(http://www.discord.org/~lippard/realist.html), to HT. “It’s disgusting
>propaganda. I guess the FCC’s old equal time rule doesn’t apply anymore or
>we’d all get together to produce a powerful response. It won’t effect
>anybody who’s already getting stoned, and I suppose that includes a small
>portion of NSYNC’s audience. At least there are other venues of news and
>entertainment- plus peer group communication- that give it some level of
>balance.”
>
>On that note, one couple in Bend, Oregon, Jeff Jarvis and Tracy Johnson,
>(www.jeffandtracy.com), both age 39, have taken their pro-pot message
public
>by buying a $2,555, full page, bold headline ad,
>(http://www.teleport.com/~jbjarvis/wesmokepot/wweek_ad.pdf), in the
>alternative paper, the Willamette Week, the last week of June, 2001.
>
>”We’re Jeff and Tracy. We’re your good neighbors. We smoke pot,” reads the
>top of the ad in big bold letters, next to a photo of the couple. “Radio,
>public transportation, and now the press. Every one of these media accept
>money from the ONDCP, from the Partnership for a Drug Free America, and
>other organizations that promote and support the drug war. We applaud the
>Willamette Week’s dedication to the American Spirit. Thank you for printing
>our message.” This was after trying to buy ad space on local radio
stations,
>public transportation, and Portland’s leading paper, the Oregonian, all of
>which turned them down.
>”Those radio stations did us a great favor by rejecting our ad,” Jarvis
told
>DRCNet, (http://www.drcnet.org/wol/192.html#neighbors). “These are stations
>that are constantly joking about pot, but they wouldn’t buy our ad. Now
>everyone wants to talk about it. One station said our ad would ‘frighten
>mothers,’ and this is a station that broadcasts the Howard Stern show!”
>
>”It just came down to deciding that we had had enough. We’re pretty patient
>people, but we decided we had to step up to the plate. We’re not really
>activists — I volunteered at the Portland NORML booth once in 1998 — but
>we’ve been watching and seeing people do good things. The activists have
>laid the groundwork, but now I think we’ve reached critical mass and it is
>time for the average Joe to stand up and say ‘yeah, we’re here.’ When more
>people stand up, it’ll be over in the blink of an eye.”
>
>When reached for comment, NSYNC’s publicist told HT to contact NSYNC’s
>management, which in turn neglected to return numerous calls from HT. A
>spokesman at Ogilvy told HT he was not to authorized to discuss the NSYNC
>PSA, and the ONDCP would not speak to HT for this story.
>
>Peace,
>Preston Peet
>ptpeet@nyc.rr.com
>Editor http://www.drugwar.com
>Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
>”Prohibition creates an irresistibly lucrative
>opportunity for entrepreneurs willing to operate
>in illicit business. It is the policy
>of idealists who cannot appreciate that the use
>of drugs often reflects other sets of human
>ideals: human perfectibility, the yearning
>for a perfect moment, the peace that comes
>from oblivion.” Richard Davenport-Hines
>
>
>

From: “Alison Senepart” <aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Timberlake smoking pot at Lotus Bar in NYC
Date: December 20, 2002 at 7:11:43 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Mostly it comes back to the same thing , money, money and more money.  There
is so much talk and hypopricy abut drugs….   Govt members trot out their
same old spech hoping to gain votes while not upsettng too many people.  Its
all a juggle act and it gets caught up in politics, personal aspirations
etc.  which don’t even take into account the poor person in the middle,  the
addict struggling to get help etc.
It shouldn’t really come down to that level.  Drug changes should come from
an independant group of poeple.   That probably sounds naive and not
workable but I still think it would be a great idea for politicians to
actually take note of what the general public are asking for and look at
more advanced or better ways of getting addicts or people with problems on
track.    There are so many out there screaming for help and not getting it
or not knowing where to go to get it.  Don’t know what its like in other
places but there is about a 6 month at least waiting list to get on the
methadone programme here in NZ South Island and nothing is being done to
sort it in the near future to make that any faster.  How many addicts who
are desperate and wanting help can go home and wait for six months.,  That
must be the biggest joke out.    News reports state large numbers waiting
and trying to get help but its not available due to lack of staff and
financing.  .  I can’t understand why they have not advertised or at least
notified people here as to ibogain and its properties.l   Does no govt.
legislation support it??  Youd think the methadone clinic would take a good
look at it.   I ‘m probably repeating what lots of people have said over
time but still felt I wanted to say it anyway…..  Allison
—–Original Message—–
From: preston peet <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
To: drugwar@mindvox.com <drugwar@mindvox.com>
Cc: ibogaine@mindvox.com <ibogaine@mindvox.com>; CRRH <restore@crrh.org>
Date: Friday, 20 December 2002 00:07
Subject: [ibogaine] Timberlake smoking pot at Lotus Bar in NYC

The editor of DrugWar.com was actually at this bar the same night, (the
same
bar where my girlfriend bartends and where she asked Rep. Harold Ford a
couple weeks ago when he was going to lobby to legalize marijuana) but
unfortunately
missed out on smoking with Justin Timberlake. Darn. The editor would have
loved to
ask him about his ONDCP commercials, (see below for complete story on
that
little arrangement) among other things.

CANNABIS USE ‘JUSTIFIED’
Justine Timberlake seen smoking pot in NYC with Mom
http://www.dotmusic.com/news/December2002/news27683.asp

(the original URL for the following story is dead, but was published at
Hightimes.com last year.)

“Do you ever wonder why this music gets you higher?”- “Pop” by NSYNC, (Jive
Records- 2001)
Wasteful Spending by the ONDCP Media Campaign

Preston Peet- High Times News

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy,
(www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov), has forged an $800,000 alliance with Pop
sensations NSYNC as part of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign,
(http://www.mediacampaign.org/).

A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read or Waste

The boy group is running a “What’s Your Anti-Drug” “public service
announcement” for the ONDCP on their website, (www.nsync.com), as well as
during each show of their ongoing 45-date Celebrity 2001 tour. The PSA
features group members listing a variety of activities, such as “mind
reading,” “hand puppets,” and more, telling viewers, “These are our
anti-drugs. What’s yours?” This PSA is part of an $800,000 Media Campaign
ad
buy deal worked out between Ogilvy and Mather, (Ogilvy),
(http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-01-623), which manages the Media
Campaign Advertising component of the Campaign, and MusicVision,
(www.musicvision.com), an ad agency specializing in managing music
websites,
including NSYNC’s.

Congress authorized, in 1997, up to $195 million a year for the 5-year
ONDCP
Media Campaign, (now in Phase III), as reported in depth here at HT,
(http://www.hightimes.com/News/2000_08/swindle.tpl).

For every dollar spent on advertising by the ONDCP, there is to be a
pro-bono match donated by the organization which sells the ad space. This
was meant by Congress to ensure the well-funded Media Campaign ads do not
supplant free ads already being produced by groups such as the Partnership
for a Drug Free America, (www.drugfreeamerica.org).

“The talent for the PSA was not paid and was not credited as part of the
match. That was outside of the ad buy,” Ann Saybolt at the
Fleishman-Hillard
public relations firm, the Outreach Contractor for the Media Campaign,
carefully stressed to HT. “That is sort of a standard thing for the ONDCP,
that ONDCP doesn’t pay for talent.” She explained for HT just what the
ONDCP
spent $800,000 taxpayer dollars to get from NSYNC in this web-based ad buy.
“That includes advertising on their website, it includes all the features
on
their website, it includes the anti-drug micro site at www.nsync.com, it
includes all the banner advertising, the whole page link to the anti-drug
micro site and then the development and production. They completely
produced
that, all of that content online.” The time spent by NSYNC filming the
30-second spot, and their showing the PSA both online and at concerts,
qualifies as the pro-bono match owed by Music Vision to the ONDCP.

Who The Hell is Watching the Money?

The NSYNC PSA was produced “from beginning to end,” according to Saybolt,
by
Madison Avenue advertising giant Ogilvy, which was awarded the Phase III,
cost-reimbursement contract by the ONDCP 3 years ago, for a total value of
$684 million. Ogilvy has been under investigation by the Government
Accounting Office for shady billing practices,
(http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0134t.pdf), and June 25, 2001, the GAO
released yet another report, (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01623.pdf),
noting the “US Government disallowed $7.6 Million out of $24.2 Million in
total labor cost billed by Ogilvy for the first 19 months of their
involvement with the Campaign.” This has been referred to the US Department
of Justice for possible further action.

“We found that some of Ogilvy’s labor charges to the Government, [read: US
Taxpayers], were not reliable, and included charges for time that its
employees did not work on the contract. According to company officials, and
an internal company e-mail, after revenue on the contract did not meet
projections in the Summer of 1999, certain Ogilvy managers instructed some
employees to review and revise their time sheets,” reads the latest GAO
report. “Some Ogilvy employees told us that they initially did not record
all their work on the ONDCP contract and that they revised their time
sheets
to increase the number of hours that they claimed to have worked. However,
some of the employees told us they did not work the amount of additional
time that was added to their time sheets or could not fully explain why
they
increased the number of hours billed to the ONDCP contract. Time sheets for
other employees, (not those who changes their time sheets after certain
Ogilvy managers instructed them to), also showed changes that increased the
number of hours charged for the ONDCP work; however, some employees said
they did not make those changes to their time sheets, nor could they
explain
who made the changes and why.” Not only did Ogilvy overcharge the
Government, but the ONDCP has been engaged in seriously lax management of
the multi-million dollar contract.

Is the Campaign Geared Towards Youth, or Congressional Drug Warrior
Moneymen?

“The goal is to surround teens with vital drug use prevention messages,
provide adults with practical information to help them raise drug-free
kids,
and encourage accurate portrayal of drug issues in entertainment media so
that pop culture does not perpetuate myths about drugs and drug use,” reads
the stated goals of the ONDCP’s Entertainment Outreach efforts,
(http://www.mediacampaign.org/newsroom/080299/update7.html) in the Media
Campaign.

“Well, I think that the message in the PSA is the Anti-Drugs, the
anti-drugs
listed in that spot, things that keep kids, that stand between kids and
drugs, that keep kids interested, that they’re passionate about,” stammered
Saybolt when asked if NSYNC presenting mind reading, scary movies,
tiddlywinks, and baroque minimalism to America’s youth as Anti-Drugs was an
efficacious way to combat drug use.

“A variety of celebrities have appeared in PSAs that support the goals of
the Campaign and spoken publicly about Campaign themes and goals,”
according
to a press release Saybolt sent HT. “Youth and parents nationwide have
heard
celebrity voices from a range of entertainment genres, including: TV (e.g.,
Eriq La Salle of NBC’s ER, Jenna Elfman of
ABC’s Dharma & Greg, Ken Olin of CBS’s LA Doctors, Lisa Nicole Carter of
Fox’s Alley McBeal, Marc Blucas of ABC’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and
Hector Elizando of Chicago Hope), film, popular music (e.g., Lauryn Hill,
Mary G. Blige, The Dixie Chicks, MTV VJ Tyrese, NSYNC), amateur and
professional sports (e.g., U.S. Women’s Soccer Team, Olympic Gold Medallist
Tara Lipinski, Mike Modano of the NHL Champion Dallas Stars), comedy (e.g.,
Howie Mandel), pop culture (e.g., Miss America 1999 Nicole Johnson, Marvel
Comics’ Spiderman).”

While the Media Campaign continues valiantly trying to brainwash and
behaviorally condition American youth,
(http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id206/pg1/), buying slick
advertisements, with sports and pop culture luminaries pushing the US
Government prohibitionist line, NY reporter Dan Forbes broke the story in
Salon, June 30, 2001,
(http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/06/30/ondcp/index.html), that the
controversial ONDCP practice of “paying tv networks for putting anti-drug
messages in popular tv shows,” was quietly suspended May 31, 2001, in a
directive signed by Acting Director of ONDCP, Edward Jurith. As this only
effects 20 percent or so of the Media Campaign tv ad budget, it is unclear
what effect this will have on the FCC order Dec. 2000, in responce to a
complaint filed by NORML Feb. 2000, requiring the ONDCP to take credit for
anti-drug messages presented to the public. The FCC ruling is being
appealed
by the Ad Council,
(http://www.drugtext.org/press/webster/apr00/%5B%5D%20Norml’s%20Complaint%2
0
Against%20Ondcp%20Is%20Under%20Review.htm), “which is responsible for
designing advertising campaigns that publishers and broadcasters can choose
from,” for the Media Campaign, according to Ira Teinowitz of Ad Age,
(http://www.adage.com/news_and_features/features/20010327/article2.html).
The Ad Council is alleging that if the government has to take credit for
its
anti-drug ads, that will confuse the public and the intended target
audience.

Countering the Propaganda

“It’s not mind reading that’s anti-drug, it’s mind control,” noted author,
publisher and satirist Paul Krassner,
(http://www.discord.org/~lippard/realist.html), to HT. “It’s disgusting
propaganda. I guess the FCC’s old equal time rule doesn’t apply anymore or
we’d all get together to produce a powerful response. It won’t effect
anybody who’s already getting stoned, and I suppose that includes a small
portion of NSYNC’s audience. At least there are other venues of news and
entertainment- plus peer group communication- that give it some level of
balance.”

On that note, one couple in Bend, Oregon, Jeff Jarvis and Tracy Johnson,
(www.jeffandtracy.com), both age 39, have taken their pro-pot message
public
by buying a $2,555, full page, bold headline ad,
(http://www.teleport.com/~jbjarvis/wesmokepot/wweek_ad.pdf), in the
alternative paper, the Willamette Week, the last week of June, 2001.

“We’re Jeff and Tracy. We’re your good neighbors. We smoke pot,” reads the
top of the ad in big bold letters, next to a photo of the couple. “Radio,
public transportation, and now the press. Every one of these media accept
money from the ONDCP, from the Partnership for a Drug Free America, and
other organizations that promote and support the drug war. We applaud the
Willamette Week’s dedication to the American Spirit. Thank you for printing
our message.” This was after trying to buy ad space on local radio
stations,
public transportation, and Portland’s leading paper, the Oregonian, all of
which turned them down.
“Those radio stations did us a great favor by rejecting our ad,” Jarvis
told
DRCNet, (http://www.drcnet.org/wol/192.html#neighbors). “These are stations
that are constantly joking about pot, but they wouldn’t buy our ad. Now
everyone wants to talk about it. One station said our ad would ‘frighten
mothers,’ and this is a station that broadcasts the Howard Stern show!”

“It just came down to deciding that we had had enough. We’re pretty patient
people, but we decided we had to step up to the plate. We’re not really
activists — I volunteered at the Portland NORML booth once in 1998 — but
we’ve been watching and seeing people do good things. The activists have
laid the groundwork, but now I think we’ve reached critical mass and it is
time for the average Joe to stand up and say ‘yeah, we’re here.’ When more
people stand up, it’ll be over in the blink of an eye.”

When reached for comment, NSYNC’s publicist told HT to contact NSYNC’s
management, which in turn neglected to return numerous calls from HT. A
spokesman at Ogilvy told HT he was not to authorized to discuss the NSYNC
PSA, and the ONDCP would not speak to HT for this story.

Peace,
Preston Peet
ptpeet@nyc.rr.com
Editor http://www.drugwar.com
Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
“Prohibition creates an irresistibly lucrative
opportunity for entrepreneurs willing to operate
in illicit business. It is the policy
of idealists who cannot appreciate that the use
of drugs often reflects other sets of human
ideals: human perfectibility, the yearning
for a perfect moment, the peace that comes
from oblivion.” Richard Davenport-Hines

From: Bernard C Phifer <chimp@zwallet.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] place me on the ibogaine list please
Date: October 17, 2002 at 4:47:03 PM EDT
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Cc: chimp@zwallet.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

please i’m interested in getting ibogaine treatment but need help. i guess i just want some people to talk with about this also. anyway please help if you can.

______________________________________________________
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From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 19, 2002 at 9:48:49 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

they have facilities in mexico go to ibogaine web sites
From: MARC <marc420emery@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 19, 2002 at 8:49:45 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I’ve recovered from the unfair admonition included in Karina’s note but what medical facillities are doing ibogaine therapy? Where is this/these medical facility/ies? And how much do they cost?

Marc Emery
—– Original Message —–
From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.

you have to go to a medical facility…do not do it with these underground people it could be dangerous………look up ibogaine locations on the web karina

From: MARC <marc420emery@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 19, 2002 at 8:45:30 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

You can get ibogaine from ethnogarden botanicals in Barrie, Ontario (ethnogarden.com). It is illegal to send to the USA though.

MarcEmery
—– Original Message —–
From: paul parisi
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.

how can i get ibogaine?

From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 19, 2002 at 8:06:13 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

you have to go to a medical facility…do not do it with these underground people it could be dangerous………look up ibogaine locations on the web karina
From: paul parisi <paulparisi@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 19, 2002 at 7:56:09 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

how can i get ibogaine?
From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 19, 2002 at 4:54:21 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

hi Allison how are you???? thanks for your note…i am doing very good……just busy with Xmas then i can relax…I’m just trying to get everything done in time…….i took the day after off to rest… i am cooking for Mom and hubby x-mas….happy holidays karina
From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] drug legalization pondered on Capital Hill
Date: December 19, 2002 at 7:32:18 AM EST
To: <drugwar@mindvox.com>
Cc: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>, “CRRH” <restore@crrh.org>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

HI all,
Another take on Burton’s outburst in the Colombian Heroin hearing.

http://www.rense.com/general32/legl.htm
Drug Legalization
Considered On Capitol Hill
ARDPArk, Inc.
Alliance for Reform of Drug Policy in AR
arkdruglawreform@mindspring.com
12-17-2

One of America’s staunchest prohibitionists Dan Burton (R-IN), shocked many
on Capitol Hill when he came very close to calling for looking at legalizing
drugs. My friend Sanho Tree from the Instituteof Policy Studies was at this
hearing and said “So many jaws dropped inthe room that you would have
thought everyone was zonked on Thorazine.

The expressions on the drug warriors’ faces was priceless when they slowly
realized their formerly staunch ally might go the way of Gary Johnson.

The following is conservative Dan Burton speaking at the House Government
Reform Committee hearing in Congress on on “America’s Heroin Crisis,
Colombian Heroin and How We Can Improve Plan Colombia.”

December 12, 2002

Dan Burton: I want to tell you something. I have been in probably a hundred
or a hundred and fifty hearings like this at various times in my political
career,. And the story is always the same.

This goes back to the sixties. You know, thirty or thirty five years ago.
And every time I have a hearing, I hear that people who get hooked on heroin
and cocaine become addicted and they very rarely get off of it. And the
scourge expands and expands and expands.

And we have very fine law enforcement officers like you go out and fight the
fight. And you see it growing and growing, and you see these horrible
tragedies occur.

But there is no end to it.

And I see young guys driving around in tough areas of Indianapolis in cars
that I know they can’t afford and I know where they are getting their money.

I mean that there is no question. A kid can’t be driving a brand-new
Corvette when he lives in the inner city of Indianapolis in a ghetto.

You know that he has gotta be making that money in someway that is probably
not legal and probably involves drugs.

Over seventy percent of all crime is drug-related. And you alluded to that
today.

We saw on television recently Pablo Escobar gunned down and everybody
applauded and said “that’s the end of the Medellín cartel. But it wasn’t the
end. There is still a cartel down there. They are still all over the place.
When you kill one, there’s ten or twenty or fifty waiting to take his place.
You know why? Its because of what you just said a minute ago, Mr. Carr, Mr.
Marcocci (sp).

And that is that there is so much money to be made in it – there is always
going to be another person in line to make that money.

And we go into drug eradication and we go into rehabilitation and we go into
education, and we do all of these things… And the drug problem continues
to increase. And it continues to cost us not billions, but trillions of
dollars. Trillions!

And we continue to build more and more prisons, and we put more and more
people in jail, and we know that the crimes – most of the time – are related
to drugs.

So I have one question I would like to ask all of you, and I think this is a
question that needs to be asked. I hate drugs. I hate people who succumb to
drug addiction, and I hate what it does to our society. It has hit every one
of us in our families or friends of ours. But I have one question that
nobody ever asks, and that is this question:

What would happen if there was no profit in drugs?

If there was no profit in drugs, what would happen.

If they couldn’t make any money out of selling drugs, what would happen?

Carr: I would like to comment. If we made illegal… what you are arguing
then is complete legalization?

Dan Burton: No I am not arguing anything. I am asking the question.

Because we have been fighting this fight for thirty to forty years and the
problem never goes way…

[After an inane response from Tom Carr]

….Well I don’t think that the people in Colombia would be planting coca if
they couldn’t make any money, and I don’t think they would be refining coca
and heroin in Colombia if they couldn’t make any money.

And I don’t think that Al Capone would have been the menace to society that
he was if he couldn’t sell alcohol on the black market – and he did – and we
had a horrible, horrible crime problem. Now the people who are producing
drugs in Southeast Asia and Southwest Asia and Colombia and everyplace else.

They don’t do it because they like to do it. They don’t fill those rooms
full of money because they like to fill them full of money.

They do it because they are making money.

At some point we to have to look at the overall picture and the overall
picture – and I am not saying that there are not going to be people who are
addicted – they are going to have to be education and rehabilitation and all
of those things that you are talking about – but one of the parts of the
equation that has never been talked about – because politicians are afraid
to talk about it – this is my last committee hearing as Chairman. Last time!

And I thought about this and thought about this, and thought about this.

And one of the things that ought to be asked is “what part of the equation
are we leaving out?”

And “is it an important part of the equation?”

And that is – the profit in drugs.

Don’t just talk about education. Don’t just talk about eradication. Don’t
just talk about killing people like Escobar, who is going to be replaced by
somebody else.

Let’s talk about what would happen if we started addressing how to get the
profit out of drugs.

EVENT: House Government Reform Committee

AGENDA: Full committee hearing on “America’s Heroin Crisis, Colombian Heroin
and How We Can Improve Plan Colombia.”

WHO:

Felix Jimenez, former special agent in charge, New York Field Division, Drug
Enforcement Agency (DEA)

Tony Marcocci, detective, District Attorney’s Office, Westmoreland County,
PA

Scott Pelletier, detective sergeant, Portland Police Department, ME

Matt – Undercover narcotics detective, Howard County Police Department, MD

Tom Carr, director, Baltimore-Washington High Intensity Drug Trafficking
Area

Barry Crane, deputy director, Supply Reduction, Office on National Drug
Control Policy

Paul Simons, acting assistant secretary, International Narcotics and Law
Enforcement, State Department

Rogelio Guevara, chief of operations, DE

Adam Isacson, senior associate, Center for International Policy

Watch this hearing at
http://video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/ldrive/e121202_heroin.rm

(advance to 1 hour and 18 minutes into the broadcast for Burton’s remarks —
this particular exchange is about ten minutes long).

Be sure to see Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s followup remark to Burton.

Denele Campbell, Executive Director Alliance for Reform of Drug Policy in
Arkansas, Inc. – ARDPArk, Inc. 1155 West Sixth Street PMB A17 Fayetteville,
AR 72701 479-839-2475 arkdruglawreform@mindspring.com www.ardpark.org
Sponsor of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Campaign

Peace,
Preston Peet
ptpeet@nyc.rr.com
Editor http://www.drugwar.com
Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
“Prohibition creates an irresistibly lucrative
opportunity for entrepreneurs willing to operate
in illicit business. It is the policy
of idealists who cannot appreciate that the use
of drugs often reflects other sets of human
ideals: human perfectibility, the yearning
for a perfect moment, the peace that comes
from oblivion.” Richard Davenport-Hines

From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] Timberlake smoking pot at Lotus Bar in NYC
Date: December 19, 2002 at 6:04:19 AM EST
To: <drugwar@mindvox.com>
Cc: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>, “CRRH” <restore@crrh.org>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

The editor of DrugWar.com was actually at this bar the same night, (the same
bar where my girlfriend bartends and where she asked Rep. Harold Ford a
couple weeks ago when he was going to lobby to legalize marijuana) but
unfortunately
missed out on smoking with Justin Timberlake. Darn. The editor would have
loved to
ask him about his ONDCP commercials, (see below for complete story on that
little arrangement) among other things.

CANNABIS USE ‘JUSTIFIED’
Justine Timberlake seen smoking pot in NYC with Mom
http://www.dotmusic.com/news/December2002/news27683.asp

(the original URL for the following story is dead, but was published at
Hightimes.com last year.)

“Do you ever wonder why this music gets you higher?”- “Pop” by NSYNC, (Jive
Records- 2001)
Wasteful Spending by the ONDCP Media Campaign

Preston Peet- High Times News

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy,
(www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov), has forged an $800,000 alliance with Pop
sensations NSYNC as part of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign,
(http://www.mediacampaign.org/).

A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read or Waste

The boy group is running a “What’s Your Anti-Drug” “public service
announcement” for the ONDCP on their website, (www.nsync.com), as well as
during each show of their ongoing 45-date Celebrity 2001 tour. The PSA
features group members listing a variety of activities, such as “mind
reading,” “hand puppets,” and more, telling viewers, “These are our
anti-drugs. What’s yours?” This PSA is part of an $800,000 Media Campaign ad
buy deal worked out between Ogilvy and Mather, (Ogilvy),
(http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-01-623), which manages the Media
Campaign Advertising component of the Campaign, and MusicVision,
(www.musicvision.com), an ad agency specializing in managing music websites,
including NSYNC’s.

Congress authorized, in 1997, up to $195 million a year for the 5-year ONDCP
Media Campaign, (now in Phase III), as reported in depth here at HT,
(http://www.hightimes.com/News/2000_08/swindle.tpl).

For every dollar spent on advertising by the ONDCP, there is to be a
pro-bono match donated by the organization which sells the ad space. This
was meant by Congress to ensure the well-funded Media Campaign ads do not
supplant free ads already being produced by groups such as the Partnership
for a Drug Free America, (www.drugfreeamerica.org).

“The talent for the PSA was not paid and was not credited as part of the
match. That was outside of the ad buy,” Ann Saybolt at the Fleishman-Hillard
public relations firm, the Outreach Contractor for the Media Campaign,
carefully stressed to HT. “That is sort of a standard thing for the ONDCP,
that ONDCP doesn’t pay for talent.” She explained for HT just what the ONDCP
spent $800,000 taxpayer dollars to get from NSYNC in this web-based ad buy.
“That includes advertising on their website, it includes all the features on
their website, it includes the anti-drug micro site at www.nsync.com, it
includes all the banner advertising, the whole page link to the anti-drug
micro site and then the development and production. They completely produced
that, all of that content online.” The time spent by NSYNC filming the
30-second spot, and their showing the PSA both online and at concerts,
qualifies as the pro-bono match owed by Music Vision to the ONDCP.

Who The Hell is Watching the Money?

The NSYNC PSA was produced “from beginning to end,” according to Saybolt, by
Madison Avenue advertising giant Ogilvy, which was awarded the Phase III,
cost-reimbursement contract by the ONDCP 3 years ago, for a total value of
$684 million. Ogilvy has been under investigation by the Government
Accounting Office for shady billing practices,
(http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0134t.pdf), and June 25, 2001, the GAO
released yet another report, (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01623.pdf),
noting the “US Government disallowed $7.6 Million out of $24.2 Million in
total labor cost billed by Ogilvy for the first 19 months of their
involvement with the Campaign.” This has been referred to the US Department
of Justice for possible further action.

“We found that some of Ogilvy’s labor charges to the Government, [read: US
Taxpayers], were not reliable, and included charges for time that its
employees did not work on the contract. According to company officials, and
an internal company e-mail, after revenue on the contract did not meet
projections in the Summer of 1999, certain Ogilvy managers instructed some
employees to review and revise their time sheets,” reads the latest GAO
report. “Some Ogilvy employees told us that they initially did not record
all their work on the ONDCP contract and that they revised their time sheets
to increase the number of hours that they claimed to have worked. However,
some of the employees told us they did not work the amount of additional
time that was added to their time sheets or could not fully explain why they
increased the number of hours billed to the ONDCP contract. Time sheets for
other employees, (not those who changes their time sheets after certain
Ogilvy managers instructed them to), also showed changes that increased the
number of hours charged for the ONDCP work; however, some employees said
they did not make those changes to their time sheets, nor could they explain
who made the changes and why.” Not only did Ogilvy overcharge the
Government, but the ONDCP has been engaged in seriously lax management of
the multi-million dollar contract.

Is the Campaign Geared Towards Youth, or Congressional Drug Warrior
Moneymen?

“The goal is to surround teens with vital drug use prevention messages,
provide adults with practical information to help them raise drug-free kids,
and encourage accurate portrayal of drug issues in entertainment media so
that pop culture does not perpetuate myths about drugs and drug use,” reads
the stated goals of the ONDCP’s Entertainment Outreach efforts,
(http://www.mediacampaign.org/newsroom/080299/update7.html) in the Media
Campaign.

“Well, I think that the message in the PSA is the Anti-Drugs, the anti-drugs
listed in that spot, things that keep kids, that stand between kids and
drugs, that keep kids interested, that they’re passionate about,” stammered
Saybolt when asked if NSYNC presenting mind reading, scary movies,
tiddlywinks, and baroque minimalism to America’s youth as Anti-Drugs was an
efficacious way to combat drug use.

“A variety of celebrities have appeared in PSAs that support the goals of
the Campaign and spoken publicly about Campaign themes and goals,” according
to a press release Saybolt sent HT. “Youth and parents nationwide have heard
celebrity voices from a range of entertainment genres, including: TV (e.g.,
Eriq La Salle of NBC’s ER, Jenna Elfman of
ABC’s Dharma & Greg, Ken Olin of CBS’s LA Doctors, Lisa Nicole Carter of
Fox’s Alley McBeal, Marc Blucas of ABC’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and
Hector Elizando of Chicago Hope), film, popular music (e.g., Lauryn Hill,
Mary G. Blige, The Dixie Chicks, MTV VJ Tyrese, NSYNC), amateur and
professional sports (e.g., U.S. Women’s Soccer Team, Olympic Gold Medallist
Tara Lipinski, Mike Modano of the NHL Champion Dallas Stars), comedy (e.g.,
Howie Mandel), pop culture (e.g., Miss America 1999 Nicole Johnson, Marvel
Comics’ Spiderman).”

While the Media Campaign continues valiantly trying to brainwash and
behaviorally condition American youth,
(http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id206/pg1/), buying slick
advertisements, with sports and pop culture luminaries pushing the US
Government prohibitionist line, NY reporter Dan Forbes broke the story in
Salon, June 30, 2001,
(http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/06/30/ondcp/index.html), that the
controversial ONDCP practice of “paying tv networks for putting anti-drug
messages in popular tv shows,” was quietly suspended May 31, 2001, in a
directive signed by Acting Director of ONDCP, Edward Jurith. As this only
effects 20 percent or so of the Media Campaign tv ad budget, it is unclear
what effect this will have on the FCC order Dec. 2000, in responce to a
complaint filed by NORML Feb. 2000, requiring the ONDCP to take credit for
anti-drug messages presented to the public. The FCC ruling is being appealed
by the Ad Council,
(http://www.drugtext.org/press/webster/apr00/%5B%5D%20Norml’s%20Complaint%20
Against%20Ondcp%20Is%20Under%20Review.htm), “which is responsible for
designing advertising campaigns that publishers and broadcasters can choose
from,” for the Media Campaign, according to Ira Teinowitz of Ad Age,
(http://www.adage.com/news_and_features/features/20010327/article2.html).
The Ad Council is alleging that if the government has to take credit for its
anti-drug ads, that will confuse the public and the intended target
audience.

Countering the Propaganda

“It’s not mind reading that’s anti-drug, it’s mind control,” noted author,
publisher and satirist Paul Krassner,
(http://www.discord.org/~lippard/realist.html), to HT. “It’s disgusting
propaganda. I guess the FCC’s old equal time rule doesn’t apply anymore or
we’d all get together to produce a powerful response. It won’t effect
anybody who’s already getting stoned, and I suppose that includes a small
portion of NSYNC’s audience. At least there are other venues of news and
entertainment- plus peer group communication- that give it some level of
balance.”

On that note, one couple in Bend, Oregon, Jeff Jarvis and Tracy Johnson,
(www.jeffandtracy.com), both age 39, have taken their pro-pot message public
by buying a $2,555, full page, bold headline ad,
(http://www.teleport.com/~jbjarvis/wesmokepot/wweek_ad.pdf), in the
alternative paper, the Willamette Week, the last week of June, 2001.

“We’re Jeff and Tracy. We’re your good neighbors. We smoke pot,” reads the
top of the ad in big bold letters, next to a photo of the couple. “Radio,
public transportation, and now the press. Every one of these media accept
money from the ONDCP, from the Partnership for a Drug Free America, and
other organizations that promote and support the drug war. We applaud the
Willamette Week’s dedication to the American Spirit. Thank you for printing
our message.” This was after trying to buy ad space on local radio stations,
public transportation, and Portland’s leading paper, the Oregonian, all of
which turned them down.
“Those radio stations did us a great favor by rejecting our ad,” Jarvis told
DRCNet, (http://www.drcnet.org/wol/192.html#neighbors). “These are stations
that are constantly joking about pot, but they wouldn’t buy our ad. Now
everyone wants to talk about it. One station said our ad would ‘frighten
mothers,’ and this is a station that broadcasts the Howard Stern show!”

“It just came down to deciding that we had had enough. We’re pretty patient
people, but we decided we had to step up to the plate. We’re not really
activists — I volunteered at the Portland NORML booth once in 1998 — but
we’ve been watching and seeing people do good things. The activists have
laid the groundwork, but now I think we’ve reached critical mass and it is
time for the average Joe to stand up and say ‘yeah, we’re here.’ When more
people stand up, it’ll be over in the blink of an eye.”

When reached for comment, NSYNC’s publicist told HT to contact NSYNC’s
management, which in turn neglected to return numerous calls from HT. A
spokesman at Ogilvy told HT he was not to authorized to discuss the NSYNC
PSA, and the ONDCP would not speak to HT for this story.

Peace,
Preston Peet
ptpeet@nyc.rr.com
Editor http://www.drugwar.com
Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
“Prohibition creates an irresistibly lucrative
opportunity for entrepreneurs willing to operate
in illicit business. It is the policy
of idealists who cannot appreciate that the use
of drugs often reflects other sets of human
ideals: human perfectibility, the yearning
for a perfect moment, the peace that comes
from oblivion.” Richard Davenport-Hines

From: “Alison Senepart” <aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 19, 2002 at 5:01:03 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

message for Karina…. really great to hear you are feeling good and doing
well.  was wondering how you were so was good news to read your mail.
Pleased for you….Allison
—–Original Message—–
From: steve diamond <stevediamond79@hotmail.com>
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Date: Thursday, 19 December 2002 06:36
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.

What do you mean, you did not feel right until October? Now I’m getting
scared. I have to go back to work four days after I am going to take it.
Could you have gone back to work even though you did not feel “right?”

Steve

From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:27:31 EST

i took ibogaine in july i did not feel right till october…..now it’s all
good!!!!!! i was on 100 mgs. of methadone……..karina

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From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Jason?
Date: December 18, 2002 at 10:43:59 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

thanks randy merry x-mas and happy new year
From: “Randy Hencken” <randyhencken@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Jason?
Date: December 18, 2002 at 9:52:23 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

The correct link is www.ibogaine-therapy.net.

Karina, we are all very proud of you!!

-Randy

From: MARC <marc420emery@shaw.ca>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Jason?
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:02:42 -0800

That link does me a ‘bad gateway’ response. Anyone else get through? I am curious about their serrvice and website.

Marc Emery
Iboga Therapy House
British Columbia
—– Original Message —–
From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Jason?

hi, go to www.ibogaine-therapy.com the facility is located in rosarito beach Mexico they are so very caring and wonderful people….if anyone is going to for ibogaine that is where i would tell them to go……from my personal experience they saved me….karina

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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Jason?
Date: December 18, 2002 at 8:56:09 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Marc,

It may be ibogaine-therapy.net.

Brett
— MARC <marc420emery@shaw.ca> wrote:
That link does me a ‘bad gateway’ response. Anyone
else get through? I am curious about their serrvice
and website.

Marc Emery
Iboga Therapy House
British Columbia
—– Original Message —–
From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Jason?

hi, go to www.ibogaine-therapy.com the facility is
located in rosarito beach Mexico they are so very
caring and wonderful people….if anyone is going to
for ibogaine that is where i would tell them to
go……from my personal experience they saved
me….karina

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From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Jason?
Date: December 18, 2002 at 7:19:07 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

go to yahoo.com put in ibogaine then you will see where is says sponsoship sites click the ibogaine their karina
From: MARC <marc420emery@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Jason?
Date: December 18, 2002 at 7:02:42 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

That link does me a ‘bad gateway’ response. Anyone else get through? I am curious about their serrvice and website.

Marc Emery
Iboga Therapy House
British Columbia
—– Original Message —–
From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Jason?

hi, go to www.ibogaine-therapy.com the facility is located in rosarito beach Mexico they are so very caring and wonderful people….if anyone is going to for ibogaine that is where i would tell them to go……from my personal experience they saved me….karina

From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Jason?
Date: December 18, 2002 at 6:56:22 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

hi, go to www.ibogaine-therapy.com the facility is located in rosarito beach Mexico they are so very caring and wonderful people….if anyone is going to for ibogaine that is where i would tell them to go……from my personal experience they saved me….karina
From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Jason?
Date: December 18, 2002 at 6:53:21 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 18, 2002 at 6:46:25 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

hi Brett i miss you…..everything you said is right…the person has to go with the same attitude as i did i want off drugs that’s not saying 100% ibo will work but must have that attitude correct me if i am wrong….i moved around and did not stay bed ridden….i was not running laps lol but i went outside and walked and ate and drank gallons of Gatorade and water…..check this out Brett since the ibo i am down to 1 pepsi a day instead of 7 a day….i drink water went to get a b-12 shot the doc. said since i have hep c the shot is better acting for me and i feel great…and Brett thanks so much for helping me through my drama i did not forget you…luv karina
From: MARC <marc420emery@shaw.ca>
Subject: [ibogaine] To Steve Diamond/ Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 18, 2002 at 6:42:37 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hello Steve,

My name is Marc Emery. I am one of the facillitators that administered
Ibogaine to Sheldon.

The Ibogaine experience is something that cannot be isolated as to duration
of experience. Meaning, yesterday, a patient was administered ibogaine
(first treatment), had 8 hours of visualizations, and today, 24 hours later,
she is walking around and lightly conversational. She will be fine to leave
(if she so desires), possibly 24 hours from now, although we expect her to
stay another 48 hours. However, another patient, a male, was administered
ibogaine 48 hours ago, and visualized for 30 hours, and is having a very
serious session, is still in bed and will require care for another 2 – 3
days, we expect he will stay another 3 – 7 days. When I say ‘serious
session’, he is seeing so much of his life, his mistakes, his pain, his
past, that his Zen masters are really going over it with him.

We treat 3 – 4 now individuals weekly and the experiences have many
commonalities to we, the facillitators, but inside each mind the trip is
very personal. Stays range from 3 – 8 days. We prefer a lengthier stay (as
long as patients are co-operative). Every patient reports an improved
attitude, physical health, and other benefits by the 2 – 3 week after
period, but prior to that, only 2 – 3 hours of sleep is required nightly for
about 10 – 25 days after ibogaine, plus there are are other transitional
peculiarities. Sheldon has much experience he could impart to you.

Marc Emery
Iboga Therapy House

—– Original Message —–
From: “steve diamond” <stevediamond79@hotmail.com>
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.

What do you mean, you did not feel right until October? Now I’m getting
scared. I have to go back to work four days after I am going to take it.
Could you have gone back to work even though you did not feel “right?”

Steve

From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:27:31 EST

i took ibogaine in july i did not feel right till october…..now it’s
all
good!!!!!! i was on 100 mgs. of methadone……..karina

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From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 18, 2002 at 6:37:24 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

hey girlfriend, i am doing great…..and you???? i thought it would never end…my hubby says your back lol……..ibo was the best thing i ever did to get off that damm methadone it was the only way for me…….i can say i am really happy now….luv karina
From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 18, 2002 at 6:34:15 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

let’s see, from July to Sept. i had no energy,was not sleeping right,felt sore,then finally in October i felt like my old self……..after doing ibo you will have insomnia how long every one is different……..i went back to work 9/16 and was not going through withdrawals but my legs were hurting and i have a sitting job……then slowly as i was working full time i felt better (like 3 weeks)anything else  let me know karina
From: brendan22@hushmail.com
Subject: RE: [ibogaine] ListS
Date: December 18, 2002 at 5:38:22 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I didn’t write that, Patrick did. I’m going to guess he wasn’t being serious, I just want to know if he sent the letter. It was a great letter.

Before I ask this let me say that I really am not trying to be rude or anything but I do wonder about this. You ask questions like that about things that I think are obviously jokes but you take them all at face value. Is it a cultural difference between the US and UK, or are you humor impaired for some reason? Not a dis, a question, because you do that a lot.

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 08:33:54 -0800 Andria Efthimiou-Mordaunt <AndriaEM@drugscope.org.uk> wrote:
Brendan22; is this real. Did U really get overwhelming craving, or
have U
believed all the brainwashing of some treatment programs.
Just asking..

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From: Patrick K. Kroupa [mailto:digital@phantom.com]
Sent: 17 December 2002 21:23
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ListS

On [Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:16:17PM -0800], [brendan22@hushmail.com]
wrote:

| Only being curious, welcome back, time to party for the holidays

Here,

– – – – – – – – –

Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings, Inc.
30 Community Drive
South Burlington, VT 05403-6828

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing to complain about a very disturbing incident I suffered
recently as a result of purchasing and consuming one of your products.

For many years I have enjoyed Ben and Jerry’s many good, wholesome
and
delicious ice cream products.  I have come to trust the Ben & Jerry’s
name to guarantee a quality snack when I feel the urge to for a
frozen
confection.

Unfortunately, a few nights ago when I found myself in the mood,
I
stopped at my local convenience store and grabbed a pint of a flavor
which I had not tried before.  I did not know it at the time, nor
did I
have any reason to suspect based on my previous experience and the
good
reputation of the Ben & Jerry’s name, that the flavor in question,
From
Russia with Buzz, contained alcohol in the form of a coffee liqueur.
As
I have already stated, I have previously enjoyed many different
Ben &
Jerry’s flavors and I am usually delighted at the eclectic assortment
of
ingredients which your ice cream contains.  So I had no way of knowing
that in trying this new flavor I would unknowingly be consuming
a
dangerous, mind-altering, addictive substance.

I have abstained from the consumption of alcohol and other mind-
altering
drugs for many years now, but as a result of my exposure to
your product I have found that the craving to consume more alcohol

which I had not felt in years — has returned stronger than ever.
After
years of peace and serenity, I awoke this morning covered in blood,

wearing women’s underwear and surrounded by used syringes, crackpipes,
and
empty Ben & Jerry’s containers.

In the future I strongly suggest that you refrain from putting alcohol
and
other dangerous drugs in your products; or failing that, prominently
feature a clearly marked warning label on the containers.  Your
failure to
do so could be construed as criminally negligent.

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From: “Brian Mariano” <mariano@ibogainetreatment.net>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Jason?
Date: December 18, 2002 at 5:24:01 PM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I am part of a group that is opening a clinic in Mexico. Jason is our prefered supplier. If you obtained you Ibo from another supplier, could you provide me with a contact? I am always looking for additional information. It all adds-up to better quality of patient care.
Best wishes for your future.
colohad5@hotmail.com

Hi Steven,
my supplier of Ibogain HCl is Karl Naeher and never had problems with his Ibo. His website is www.ibogainetreatment.com
The clinic is going to be in Baja or in another part of Mexico? This Jason got a website? What form of ibo does he provide?
Best wishes to your clinic!

Brian Mariano
www.ibogainetreatment.net
From: Jaden Harder <jadensheldon@yahoo.ca>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 18, 2002 at 2:05:23 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Okay Steve
Yeah I was wired to coke and heroin IV. Im 25 and before the Ibo my energy was sporatic and I had to work around them. Okay when you do Ibo its like you never come down. But not because youre high but because the experience just lifted you to a more open level where you realize you could have been all along. Im talking physical energy as well. Ive had consistent energy for over a month. Since the morning after I did it. And really try to concentrate on your “visions” because after when you are sorting it all out youll be really glad you payed attention. Yeah just relax and observe and let it happen. And good luck man.
Sheldon
steve diamond <stevediamond79@hotmail.com> wrote:
Sheldon,

I am about to do Ibo for the first time in ten days. Were you addicted to
opiates? If yes how much and how long did it take before you started feeling
“great and full of energy?”

Steve Diamond

>From: Jaden Harder
>Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
>To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
>Subject: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada. Date: Fri, 13 Dec
>2002 16:29:41 -0500 (EST)
>
>Hi my names Sheldon and I have recently done Ibogaine
>under the care of some people who have started a
>house. To date I have never been able to talk to
>anyone who really has any idea what I went through
>with the Ibogaine or what has been happening since(all
>positive). I am doing many new things for after
>treatment which I know is necessary but Im on my own
>here and I may have to move away from where I have
>found all of this treatment. Need someone to talk to.
>Dont want to go back to where I used to use. Need to
>relate to someone. But feeling really great and full
>of energy. A response would be a great thing. Also I
>would like to know what poepl think about follow up to
>Ibogaine. Is it just something you do and then move
>on? Maybe someone knows where I can find others on the
>Net? Thanx for your help.
>
>Sheldon
>
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Subject: RE: [ibogaine] Re: [vox] ListS
Date: December 18, 2002 at 1:42:42 PM EST
To: “‘ibogaine@mindvox.com'” <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

What on earth is this?
an
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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 18, 2002 at 1:31:10 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Steve,

— steve diamond <stevediamond79@hotmail.com> wrote:
What do you mean, you did not feel right until
October? Now I’m getting
scared.

All you are doing creating doubt – exactly what your
addiction wants you to do and exactly what you
shouldn’t be doing (IMHO of course).

Karina was on 100mg’s of Methadone, she is far smaller
than you (effectivly increasing her mg/kg – or DOSE
compared to you). Methadone is rough stuff and even
with ibo they often don’t feel right for a while.
While this can and does happen with other shorter
acting opiates it BY FAR usually is much less and much
shorter – IF AT ALL – and we are not talking about any
full blown withdrawal. So maybe won’t feel wonderful
for a week or so… yeah, so? It isn’t going to change
a thing to “worry” or get yourself scared over it –
well, not in a positive way.

All this is nothing you don’t know – if you want to
ask questions have at it, if you want to scare the
shit out of yourself about failure I STRONGLY suggest
get off the list and just do the stuff (ibo) – oh, and
DON’T THINK (if you are at that stage…) about it.
You are going to be however you are going to be –
unless you get yourself all worked up about failure –
NO FAILURE – look at FREEDOM, you create what you see
– you are not looking at SUCCESS, you are focusing
your attention on failure/fear/what if/WHAT THEN/then
what am I going to do… This isn’t healthy stuff, it
is addiction thinking – GET OVER IT so you can GET
OVER IT. YOu may or may not have or not have any
number of reactions to ibo – you will find out when
you get there which ones they are/aren’t and how much
of them you have/don’t have… Worrying about it is
not good for ya…

The bottom line of the treatment is it is HIGHLY
likely you will be just fine with the treatment (being
“successful”) and then, after it is some-teen notches
easier to recover, it is up to you.

I have to go back to work four days after I
am going to take it.

So go back to work 4 days after you take it(the 5th
day). Most of the time you will be able to just fine
even if you kicked dope without ibogaine – you are
addicted to a different drug than Karina was and you
are not on a handful of medications that she was on
and juggling. Most of the time people will be well
enough recovered within 4 days to return to work – it
usually only takes 2-3 days – on occasion people take
a little longer – and if you DO NOT EAT it will take
you longer… maybe not 4 days but eating shortens
recovery and not eating prolongs it. Taking vitamins,
eating fruits and veggies, taking in lots of fluids
etc will be better on your recovery than hot-dogs and
ham sandwitches with coke… Get UP and move around,
get some fresh air (just a bit) – don’t sit there in
bed (if that is the case) – in other words LISTEN to
the person on the other end of the telephone telling
you things you need to do in order to recover faster.
Some people do ibo and wake-up quite refreshed (I HATE
THEM!) all ready to go, “cured” even… ya never know.
And yes there  is a (very small) chance you will take
the ibogaine and it will have zero effect on you – so
then what? Then you move onto the next step, whatever
that may be but I tell you this, if you think you are
doomed, then you are doomed till you think otherwise.

not feel “right?”

That prolonged not-feeling right is much more common
to methadone addictions AND a 2nd treatment will
likely eliminate much/most of those.

Brett

Steve

From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in
Canada.
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:27:31 EST

i took ibogaine in july i did not feel right till
october…..now it’s all
good!!!!!! i was on 100 mgs. of
methadone……..karina

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Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 18, 2002 at 1:13:39 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

In a message dated 12/18/02 12:53:18 PM, colohad5@hotmail.com writes:

<< I am part of a group that is opening a clinic in Mexico. >>

Hi Steven,

Will this clinic include medical doctors and meet Mexican legal and
regulatory requirements?

Thanks

Howard

From: “steven hadley” <colohad5@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 18, 2002 at 12:48:59 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

 

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>What do you mean, you did not feel right until October? Now I’m

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>>From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com

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>>To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>>Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.

>>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:27:31 EST

>>

>>i took ibogaine in july i did not feel right till october…..now

>>it’s all

>>good!!!!!! i was on 100 mgs. of methadone……..karina

>

> STEVE: Saw your post. You mention doing your’s in Canada.
I was wondering if you obtained your Ibo from a great guy named Jason. If so, you are double lucky. Jason is a friend and real proffesional. Could you supply me with a few details regarding your experience? Dose, what form, route of administration, results compared to your expectations.
I am part of a group that is opening a clinic in Mexico. Jason is our prefered supplier. If you obtained you Ibo from another supplier, could you provide me with a contact? I am always looking for additional information. It all adds-up to better quality of patient care.
Best wishes for your future.
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From: Andria Efthimiou-Mordaunt <AndriaEM@drugscope.org.uk>
Subject: RE: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 18, 2002 at 12:44:20 PM EST
To: “‘ibogaine@mindvox.com'” <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Yeh Karina

So many of us were wondering how U were? EXCELLENT to hear from U

Love andria (london/U.K.)

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From: crownofthorns@hushmail.com [mailto:crownofthorns@hushmail.com]
Sent: 18 December 2002 01:48
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.

Karina, you’re alive! How are you doing?

Peace out,
Curtis

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it’s all
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From: Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ListS
Date: December 18, 2002 at 12:39:08 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Patrick K. Kroupa wrote:

On [Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:16:17PM -0800], [brendan22@hushmail.com] wrote:

Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings, Inc.
30 Community Drive
South Burlington, VT 05403-6828

To Whom It May Concern:

i always found it ironic that ben and jerry’s goes to all the trouble
preparing “eco-safe” packaging and opposing the use of growth hormones in
dairy cows when their product is essentially a heart attack in a box…

not that i don’t love ice cream, mind you =)

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From: “steve diamond” <stevediamond79@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 18, 2002 at 12:35:07 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

What do you mean, you did not feel right until October? Now I’m getting scared. I have to go back to work four days after I am going to take it. Could you have gone back to work even though you did not feel “right?”

Steve

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Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:27:31 EST

i took ibogaine in july i did not feel right till october…..now it’s all
good!!!!!! i was on 100 mgs. of methadone……..karina

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From: Indianarob68@cs.com
Subject: [ibogaine] Re: [vox] ListS
Date: December 18, 2002 at 1:58:49 AM EST
To: vox@mindvox.com, ibogaine@mindvox.com, crashtestdummies@mindvox.com, drugwar@mindvox.com, bk@mindvox.com, kotas4christ@mindvox.com
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Date: December 18, 2002 at 11:33:54 AM EST
To: “‘ibogaine@mindvox.com'” <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Brendan22; is this real. Did U really get overwhelming craving, or have U
believed all the brainwashing of some treatment programs.
Just asking..

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Sent: 17 December 2002 21:23
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
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On [Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:16:17PM -0800], [brendan22@hushmail.com] wrote:

| Only being curious, welcome back, time to party for the holidays

Here,

– – – – – – – – –

Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings, Inc.
30 Community Drive
South Burlington, VT 05403-6828

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing to complain about a very disturbing incident I suffered
recently as a result of purchasing and consuming one of your products.

For many years I have enjoyed Ben and Jerry’s many good, wholesome and
delicious ice cream products.  I have come to trust the Ben & Jerry’s
name to guarantee a quality snack when I feel the urge to for a frozen
confection.

Unfortunately, a few nights ago when I found myself in the mood, I
stopped at my local convenience store and grabbed a pint of a flavor
which I had not tried before.  I did not know it at the time, nor did I
have any reason to suspect based on my previous experience and the good
reputation of the Ben & Jerry’s name, that the flavor in question, From
Russia with Buzz, contained alcohol in the form of a coffee liqueur.  As
I have already stated, I have previously enjoyed many different Ben &
Jerry’s flavors and I am usually delighted at the eclectic assortment of
ingredients which your ice cream contains.  So I had no way of knowing
that in trying this new flavor I would unknowingly be consuming a
dangerous, mind-altering, addictive substance.

I have abstained from the consumption of alcohol and other mind-altering
drugs for many years now, but as a result of my exposure to
your product I have found that the craving to consume more alcohol —
which I had not felt in years — has returned stronger than ever.  After
years of peace and serenity, I awoke this morning covered in blood,
wearing women’s underwear and surrounded by used syringes, crackpipes, and
empty Ben & Jerry’s containers.

In the future I strongly suggest that you refrain from putting alcohol and
other dangerous drugs in your products; or failing that, prominently
feature a clearly marked warning label on the containers.  Your failure to
do so could be construed as criminally negligent.

With warmest regards,
<Insert [Name] Here>

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From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 17, 2002 at 9:00:51 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

what up?? i am fine.got a promotion at work…people that know what I’ve been through notice the difference…….i thought i was gonna die lol still have insomnia but have had that all my life i am going to go to a sleep specialist in Jan. i am just so busy…i do not have time to think about drugs serious…….hope you have a clean and happy Xmas and new year luv karina
From: crownofthorns@hushmail.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 17, 2002 at 8:47:58 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Karina, you’re alive! How are you doing?

Peace out,
Curtis

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:27:31 -0800 Mzzthangg13@aol.com wrote:
i took ibogaine in july i did not feel right till october…..now
it’s all
good!!!!!! i was on 100 mgs. of methadone……..karina

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From: crownofthorns@hushmail.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ListS
Date: December 17, 2002 at 8:47:26 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

That was a nice combination of sick and funny, thanks for that 😉 But taking a look at the letter it’s really very good bro. I’m thinking of removing the Ben & Jerry’s and sending it to Mercedes instead 🙂

Now how could I phrase it for Mercedes. Only thinking out loud.

Peace out,
Curtis

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:23:26 -0800 “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com> wrote:
On [Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:16:17PM -0800], [brendan22@hushmail.com]
wrote:

| Only being curious, welcome back, time to party for the holidays

Here,

– – – – – – – – –

Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings, Inc.
30 Community Drive
South Burlington, VT 05403-6828

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing to complain about a very disturbing incident I suffered
recently as a result of purchasing and consuming one of your products.

For many years I have enjoyed Ben and Jerry’s many good, wholesome
and
delicious ice cream products.  I have come to trust the Ben & Jerry’s
name to guarantee a quality snack when I feel the urge to for a
frozen
confection.

Unfortunately, a few nights ago when I found myself in the mood,
I
stopped at my local convenience store and grabbed a pint of a flavor
which I had not tried before.  I did not know it at the time, nor
did I
have any reason to suspect based on my previous experience and the
good
reputation of the Ben & Jerry’s name, that the flavor in question,
From
Russia with Buzz, contained alcohol in the form of a coffee liqueur.
As
I have already stated, I have previously enjoyed many different
Ben &
Jerry’s flavors and I am usually delighted at the eclectic assortment
of
ingredients which your ice cream contains.  So I had no way of knowing
that in trying this new flavor I would unknowingly be consuming
a
dangerous, mind-altering, addictive substance.

I have abstained from the consumption of alcohol and other mind-
altering
drugs for many years now, but as a result of my exposure to
your product I have found that the craving to consume more alcohol

which I had not felt in years — has returned stronger than ever.
After
years of peace and serenity, I awoke this morning covered in blood,

wearing women’s underwear and surrounded by used syringes, crackpipes,
and
empty Ben & Jerry’s containers.

In the future I strongly suggest that you refrain from putting alcohol
and
other dangerous drugs in your products; or failing that, prominently
feature a clearly marked warning label on the containers.  Your
failure to
do so could be construed as criminally negligent.

With warmest regards,
<Insert [Name] Here>

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From: Mzzthangg13@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 17, 2002 at 8:27:31 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

i took ibogaine in july i did not feel right till october…..now it’s all good!!!!!! i was on 100 mgs. of methadone……..karina
From: “steve diamond” <stevediamond79@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 17, 2002 at 5:51:59 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Sheldon,

I am about to do Ibo for the first time in ten days. Were you addicted to opiates? If yes how much and how long did it take before you started feeling “great and full of energy?”

Steve Diamond

From: Jaden Harder <jadensheldon@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada. Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:29:41 -0500 (EST)

Hi my names Sheldon and I have recently done Ibogaine
under the care of some people who have started a
house. To date I have never been able to talk to
anyone who really has any idea what I went through
with the Ibogaine or what has been happening since(all
positive). I am doing many new things for after
treatment which I know is necessary but Im on my own
here and I may have to move away from where I have
found all of this treatment. Need someone to talk to.
Dont want to go back to where I used to use. Need to
relate to someone. But feeling really great and full
of energy. A response would be a great thing. Also I
would like to know what poepl think about follow up to
Ibogaine. Is it just something you do and then move
on? Maybe someone knows where I can find others on the
Net? Thanx for your help.

Sheldon

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From: “steve diamond” <stevediamond79@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Rep. Harold Ford just smiled…
Date: December 17, 2002 at 5:37:54 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Racism is certainly alive and well in America but there is much more to it than that. Outdoor drug markets in urban areas are highly visible. Residents in those areas put pressure on police and politicians to do something about the drugs. Politicians mistakenly believe tougher laws have an effect on drug demand. Politicians score big points on being percieved as tough on drugs. Going after outdoor markets is very easy. Crack and heroin are the major drugs being sold in outdoor, urban markets. Politicians try to out do one another by passing tougher laws against crack and heroin.

Black people tend to make up the majority of urban drug customers and dealers so they get nailed by laws against crack and dope. Suburban drug dealers and customers tend to do business by cell phones and pagers. Because they are less visible there is less pressure to do something about them even though they consume way more drugs than their urban counterparts.

If it is any consolation, I was once busted in an urban market. When I went to court the black judge, Evelyn Queen, said, and I quote, “Because you are white and educated you have no reason to be messing around with heroin.” She gave me the harshest sentence my attourney had ever seen. I could not believe it. The worst part was the community service a part of which was scrubbing toilets in a homeless shelter.

Steve Diamond
From: “Alison Senepart” <aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Rep. Harold Ford just smiled…
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:49:13 +1300

How come the drug laws affect the African Americans more than the whites.  I
don’t really know how or why that works but perhaps I’m being a bit thick or
behind the news but would like to know.  Thanks Allison
—–Original Message—–
From: steve diamond <stevediamond79@hotmail.com>
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Date: Friday, 13 December 2002 04:39
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Rep. Harold Ford just smiled…

>I work as a freelance television technician in DC. I have worked on every
>major public affairs program for every network. I’ve worked with Harold
Ford
>on many occassions. He is somebody to keep your eyes on. He is really
moving
>through the ranks quickly. I would not be surprised if he runs for
president
>or VP in ten years.
>
>Great job pressing him on the marijuana issue. Not many people would have
>the guts to ask him that question. I thought by now with so many
>”experienced” congressmen on the Hill, legalization would have happened a
>long time ago.
>
>The drug laws effect African Americans to a much greater degree than
whites.
>Ford is particularly active on issues effecting African Americans. He is
>more suited than others to sponsor legislation due to his race and age.
Keep
>up the pressure.
>
>Steve Diamond
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
>>Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
>>To: <drugwar@mindvox.com>
>>CC: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
>>Subject: [ibogaine] Rep. Harold Ford just smiled…
>>Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 05:58:07 -0500
>>
>>Hey all,
>>     Rep. Harold Ford (http://www.house.gov/ford/) was in the bar Lotus
>>tonight, on 14th Street Manhattan, where my girlfriend V bartends a couple
>>nights a week. She recognized him when he came up to get drinks for
himself
>>and the girlfriend he was with. After telling him she recognized him
>>because her boyfriend, (me) watches C-Span all the time, he introduced
>>himself with a handshake. He came across as “really nice” she says. So,
>>after the handshake and ice-breaking was over, V brightly came out with a
>>”so, when are you going to lobby for marijuana legalization?”
>>     He gave her a big, but silent, grin.
>>     She said, “I’m serious man, it’s time. It’s time for marijuana to be
>>legalized.”
>>     He still only smiled and mumbled something to his girlfriend. Later
he
>>came back to the bar and asked her if I did, and if I were in Washington
at
>>all, due to I guess her having told him about my C-Span addiction. She
>>smiled in her own turn and said, “He writes for High Times magazine.”
>>     “Oh, I see,” said he, and that was the end of it.
>>     Planting seeds that may take root. If we all do the same at every
>>opportunity, perhaps those seeds will sprout. I just wish I’d been there.
>>Peace,
>>Preston Peet
>>ptpeet@nyc.rr.com
>>Editor http://www.drugwar.com
>>Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
>>”Prohibition creates an irresistibly lucrative
>>opportunity for entrepreneurs willing to operate
>>in illicit business. It is the policy
>>of idealists who cannot appreciate that the use
>>of drugs often reflects other sets of human
>>ideals: human perfectibility, the yearning
>>for a perfect moment, the peace that comes
>>from oblivion.” Richard Davenport-Hines
>
>
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From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ListS
Date: December 17, 2002 at 4:23:26 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

On [Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:16:17PM -0800], [brendan22@hushmail.com] wrote:

| Only being curious, welcome back, time to party for the holidays

Here,

– – – – – – – – –

Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings, Inc.
30 Community Drive
South Burlington, VT 05403-6828

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing to complain about a very disturbing incident I suffered
recently as a result of purchasing and consuming one of your products.

For many years I have enjoyed Ben and Jerry’s many good, wholesome and
delicious ice cream products.  I have come to trust the Ben & Jerry’s
name to guarantee a quality snack when I feel the urge to for a frozen
confection.

Unfortunately, a few nights ago when I found myself in the mood, I
stopped at my local convenience store and grabbed a pint of a flavor
which I had not tried before.  I did not know it at the time, nor did I
have any reason to suspect based on my previous experience and the good
reputation of the Ben & Jerry’s name, that the flavor in question, From
Russia with Buzz, contained alcohol in the form of a coffee liqueur.  As
I have already stated, I have previously enjoyed many different Ben &
Jerry’s flavors and I am usually delighted at the eclectic assortment of
ingredients which your ice cream contains.  So I had no way of knowing
that in trying this new flavor I would unknowingly be consuming a
dangerous, mind-altering, addictive substance.

I have abstained from the consumption of alcohol and other mind-altering
drugs for many years now, but as a result of my exposure to
your product I have found that the craving to consume more alcohol —
which I had not felt in years — has returned stronger than ever.  After
years of peace and serenity, I awoke this morning covered in blood,
wearing women’s underwear and surrounded by used syringes, crackpipes, and
empty Ben & Jerry’s containers.

In the future I strongly suggest that you refrain from putting alcohol and
other dangerous drugs in your products; or failing that, prominently
feature a clearly marked warning label on the containers.  Your failure to
do so could be construed as criminally negligent.

With warmest regards,
<Insert [Name] Here>

From: brendan22@hushmail.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ListS
Date: December 17, 2002 at 4:16:17 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

So, geniuses…….. what happened? your domain was available for at least 12 hours, I know because I ordered it on register and snap. Then it just vanished and went back to you. That’s not how the registrars work. Why’d it go offline?

Only being curious, welcome back, time to party for the holidays

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:51:35 -0800 “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com> wrote:
On [Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 05:28:35PM -0800], [crownofthorns@hushmail.com]
wrote:

| Welcome back 😉
|
| I got one msg from this morning, nothing since then. I called
network
| solutions and asked what the problem was, they said something
like 5,000
| domains went into limbo by accident. Then I asked about mindvox,
I got
| the legal department and a really angry guy who started the conversation
| by telling me he was not required to talk to me if I used obscenities
| and that if I made contact with any more verisign engineers on
their
| cell phones while they are on verisign property they will be fired
and
| I’m not allowed to talk to anyone except the legal department.
|
| I’m thinking maybe there are some problems 😉 I understand the
domain
| went out over the weekend, but what I want to know is what happened
| today? 🙂

Uhm, it’s a long story, will post an update later today, and flip
the
lists back to @mindvox.com, since we are once again resolving.

Netsol/Verisign/WhateverTheFuck would have been somewhat, uhm, upset
yesterday, since through a variety of akshuns and events, they were
pulled
into our script, where they got Bruce as Fucking Psychotic and Pissed
Off
Guy — which was a real bummer n all, because I wanted to rant and
rave,
but he took that fucking role, so I mean, it would have done no
good and
blown out the whole Good Cop/Bad Cop dynamic, and I was forced to
take the
role of reasonable and sane guy, who just wanted to help them make
it all
go away.  Then there was Evan representing the technical side of
the
iSsUeS, “NO, EVERYTHING you’re saying is Completely Wrong, that’s
it, I’m
calling the engineers…” which he did, and that upset them an awful
lot,
then two of our lawyers called, then Bruce called back and explained
we
were sending the tapes of our conversations to Wired and sending
out a
press release, then… various other stuff.

Anywaze, when in doubt try to say “gross negligence” a lot, show
them
your media kit, explain how every reporter you know is about to
land in
the middle of all this, and then get a lawyer or two to make threats.
It’s amazing how many things in the entire universe could potentially
be
the fault of Verisign.  Actually — as I learned yesterday — Verisign
could potentially be liable for EVERYTHING that’s wrong with the
entire
universe.  Quite conceivably Verisign is the reason that ibogaine
is
schedule I in the United States.  It would not surprise me at all.

I really love lawyers, as long as they’re ours anyway.

Patrick

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From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] ListS
Date: December 17, 2002 at 12:54:20 PM EST
To: vox@mindvox.com, ibogaine@mindvox.com, crashtestdummies@mindvox.com, drugwar@mindvox.com, bk@mindvox.com, kotas4christ@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@phantom.com

All lists should once again resolve @mindvox.com

Patrick

From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ListS
Date: December 17, 2002 at 12:51:35 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@phantom.com

On [Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 05:28:35PM -0800], [crownofthorns@hushmail.com] wrote:

| Welcome back 😉
|
| I got one msg from this morning, nothing since then. I called network
| solutions and asked what the problem was, they said something like 5,000
| domains went into limbo by accident. Then I asked about mindvox, I got
| the legal department and a really angry guy who started the conversation
| by telling me he was not required to talk to me if I used obscenities
| and that if I made contact with any more verisign engineers on their
| cell phones while they are on verisign property they will be fired and
| I’m not allowed to talk to anyone except the legal department.
|
| I’m thinking maybe there are some problems 😉 I understand the domain
| went out over the weekend, but what I want to know is what happened
| today? 🙂

Uhm, it’s a long story, will post an update later today, and flip the
lists back to @mindvox.com, since we are once again resolving.

Netsol/Verisign/WhateverTheFuck would have been somewhat, uhm, upset
yesterday, since through a variety of akshuns and events, they were pulled
into our script, where they got Bruce as Fucking Psychotic and Pissed Off
Guy — which was a real bummer n all, because I wanted to rant and rave,
but he took that fucking role, so I mean, it would have done no good and
blown out the whole Good Cop/Bad Cop dynamic, and I was forced to take the
role of reasonable and sane guy, who just wanted to help them make it all
go away.  Then there was Evan representing the technical side of the
iSsUeS, “NO, EVERYTHING you’re saying is Completely Wrong, that’s it, I’m
calling the engineers…” which he did, and that upset them an awful lot,
then two of our lawyers called, then Bruce called back and explained we
were sending the tapes of our conversations to Wired and sending out a
press release, then… various other stuff.

Anywaze, when in doubt try to say “gross negligence” a lot, show them
your media kit, explain how every reporter you know is about to land in
the middle of all this, and then get a lawyer or two to make threats.
It’s amazing how many things in the entire universe could potentially be
the fault of Verisign.  Actually — as I learned yesterday — Verisign
could potentially be liable for EVERYTHING that’s wrong with the entire
universe.  Quite conceivably Verisign is the reason that ibogaine is
schedule I in the United States.  It would not surprise me at all.

I really love lawyers, as long as they’re ours anyway.

Patrick

From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] bl1p
Date: December 17, 2002 at 12:48:56 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@phantom.com

.

From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ListS
Date: December 17, 2002 at 12:48:31 PM EST
To: ibogaine@phantom.com

On [Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 05:28:35PM -0800], [crownofthorns@hushmail.com] wrote:

| Welcome back 😉
|
| I got one msg from this morning, nothing since then. I called network
| solutions and asked what the problem was, they said something like 5,000
| domains went into limbo by accident. Then I asked about mindvox, I got
| the legal department and a really angry guy who started the conversation
| by telling me he was not required to talk to me if I used obscenities
| and that if I made contact with any more verisign engineers on their
| cell phones while they are on verisign property they will be fired and
| I’m not allowed to talk to anyone except the legal department.
|
| I’m thinking maybe there are some problems 😉 I understand the domain
| went out over the weekend, but what I want to know is what happened
| today? 🙂

Uhm, it’s a long story, will post an update later today, and flip the
lists back to @mindvox.com, since we are once again resolving.

Netsol/Verisign/WhateverTheFuck would have been somewhat, uhm, upset
yesterday, since through a variety of akshuns and events, they were pulled
into our script, where they got Bruce as Fucking Psychotic and Pissed Off
Guy — which was a real bummer n all, because I wanted to rant and rave,
but he took that fucking role, so I mean, it would have done no good and
blown out the whole Good Cop/Bad Cop dynamic, and I was forced to take the
role of reasonable and sane guy, who just wanted to help them make it all
go away.  Then there was Evan representing the technical side of the
iSsUeS, “NO, EVERYTHING you’re saying is Completely Wrong, that’s it, I’m
calling the engineers…” which he did, and that upset them an awful lot,
then two of our lawyers called, then Bruce called back and explained we
were sending the tapes of our conversations to Wired and sending out a
press release, then… various other stuff.

Anywaze, when in doubt try to say “gross negligence” a lot, show them
your media kit and mention that every reporter on the planet that you
know is about to land right in the middle of all this, plus, also, get a
lawyer or two to make threats.  It’s amazing how many things in the entire
universe could potentially be the fault of Verisign.  Actually — as I
learned yesterday — Verisign could potentially be liable for EVERYTHING
that’s wrong with the entire universe.  Quite conceivably Verisign is the
reason that ibogaine is schedule I in the United States.  It would not
surprise me at all.

I really love lawyers, as long as they’re mine anyway.

Patrick

From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] Employed druggies make mockery of “steal for habit” jive
Date: December 17, 2002 at 8:39:31 AM EST
To: <drugwar@phantom.com>
Cc: <ibogaine@phantom.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@phantom.com

Hi all,
Of course, under current prohibition policies, some do in fact steal to
supply their habit. But not all users, or even abusers, engaged in theft and
more, some actually work at what would normally be considered “jobs.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,846757,00.html

Young make drugs part of everyday life

Employed users challenge idea of ‘losers’ funding habit by crime

James Meikle, health correspondent
Monday November 25, 2002
The Guardian

Britain’s twentysomethings have defined their own “sensible” drug-taking
culture and incorporated a regular use of illegal substances into a work
hard/play hard lifestyle, according to research.
Far from “maturing out” of adolescent binge drinking and occasional drug
taking, these young people are helping to make recreational drug use part of
everyday life.
They are also challenging assumptions that drug users are unemployed and
unemployable people who could only fund their habit through crime.
Howard Parker and a research team at Manchester University have monitored
hundreds of young people in north-west England since they were aged 13 or
14. The team warned yesterday that the government’s drug strategy must
incorporate tobacco and, especially, alcohol use, and embrace the
“realities” of how people actually behaved.
“In the absence of any public health messages for young adults into their
lifestyles, hard-soft drug distinctions are becoming increasingly blurred.
snip-
Peace,
Preston Peet
ptpeet@nyc.rr.com
Editor http://www.drugwar.com
Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
“Prohibition creates an irresistibly lucrative
opportunity for entrepreneurs willing to operate
in illicit business. It is the policy
of idealists who cannot appreciate that the use
of drugs often reflects other sets of human
ideals: human perfectibility, the yearning
for a perfect moment, the peace that comes
from oblivion.” Richard Davenport-Hines

From: “Alison Senepart” <aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ListS
Date: December 17, 2002 at 5:42:22 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@phantom.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@phantom.com

thanks for the info  will hang in and see what happens, hopefully good
things……. Allison Senepart—-Original Message—–
From: Patrick K. Kroupa <digital@phantom.com>
To: drugwar@mindvox.com <drugwar@mindvox.com>; ibogaine@mindvox.com
<ibogaine@mindvox.com>; crashtestdummies@mindvox.com
<crashtestdummies@mindvox.com>; bk@mindvox.com <bk@mindvox.com>
Date: Tuesday, 17 December 2002 12:58
Subject: [ibogaine] ListS

DNS for mindvox.com will be back to normal within 24-72hrs.  Hopefully
closer to 24.  In the interim, all lists work, but you need to send
@phantom.com instead of @mindvox.com.  i.e.,

ibogaine@phantom.com
drugwar@phantom.com

etc…

Reply-To HAS NOT been reset, this means if you click <Reply> to a message,
it’s still trying to send to @mindvox.com, and it WILL bounce.  We haven’t
reset the entire mail system, since it’s all going back to mindvox Any
Minute Now, in fact all we have done is:

find . -exec perl -pi -e ‘s/@mindvox.com/@phantom.com/g’ {} \;

To reiterate: to send mail to DrugWar (for roughly the next 24-72hrs),
send to: drugwar@phantom.com (instead of @mindvox.com), to send mail to
ibogaine, send to: ibogaine@phantom.com

Everything will go back to where it was Real Soon Now.

Patrick

From: crownofthorns@hushmail.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ListS
Date: December 16, 2002 at 8:28:35 PM EST
To: ibogaine@phantom.com, drugwar@phantom.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@phantom.com

Welcome back 😉

I got one msg from this morning, nothing since then. I called network solutions and asked what the problem was, they said something like 5,000 domains went into limbo by accident. Then I asked about mindvox, I got the legal department and a really angry guy who started the conversation by telling me he was not required to talk to me if I used obscenities and that if I made contact with any more verisign engineers on their cell phones while they are on verisign property they will be fired and I’m not allowed to talk to anyone except the legal department.

I’m thinking maybe there are some problems 😉 I understand the domain went out over the weekend, but what I want to know is what happened today? 🙂

Peace out,
Curtis

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:09:33 -0800 “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com> wrote:

DNS for mindvox.com will be back to normal within 24-72hrs.  Hopefully
closer to 24.  In the interim, all lists work, but you need to send

@phantom.com instead of @mindvox.com.  i.e.,

ibogaine@phantom.com
drugwar@phantom.com

etc…

Reply-To HAS NOT been reset, this means if you click <Reply> to
a message,
it’s still trying to send to @mindvox.com, and it WILL bounce.
We haven’t
reset the entire mail system, since it’s all going back to mindvox
Any
Minute Now.

To reiterate: to send mail to DrugWar (for roughly the next 24-72hrs),

send to: drugwar@phantom.com (instead of @mindvox.com), to send
mail to
ibogaine, send to: ibogaine@phantom.com

Everything will go back to where it was Real Soon Now.

Patrick

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From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] ListS
Date: December 16, 2002 at 7:09:33 PM EST
To: ibogaine@phantom.com, drugwar@phantom.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@phantom.com

DNS for mindvox.com will be back to normal within 24-72hrs.  Hopefully
closer to 24.  In the interim, all lists work, but you need to send
@phantom.com instead of @mindvox.com.  i.e.,

ibogaine@phantom.com
drugwar@phantom.com

etc…

Reply-To HAS NOT been reset, this means if you click <Reply> to a message,
it’s still trying to send to @mindvox.com, and it WILL bounce.  We haven’t
reset the entire mail system, since it’s all going back to mindvox Any
Minute Now.

To reiterate: to send mail to DrugWar (for roughly the next 24-72hrs),
send to: drugwar@phantom.com (instead of @mindvox.com), to send mail to
ibogaine, send to: ibogaine@phantom.com

Everything will go back to where it was Real Soon Now.

Patrick

From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] ListS
Date: December 16, 2002 at 6:41:18 PM EST
To: drugwar@mindvox.com, ibogaine@mindvox.com, crashtestdummies@mindvox.com, bk@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@phantom.com

DNS for mindvox.com will be back to normal within 24-72hrs.  Hopefully
closer to 24.  In the interim, all lists work, but you need to send
@phantom.com instead of @mindvox.com.  i.e.,

ibogaine@phantom.com
drugwar@phantom.com

etc…

Reply-To HAS NOT been reset, this means if you click <Reply> to a message,
it’s still trying to send to @mindvox.com, and it WILL bounce.  We haven’t
reset the entire mail system, since it’s all going back to mindvox Any
Minute Now, in fact all we have done is:

find . -exec perl -pi -e ‘s/@mindvox.com/@phantom.com/g’ {} \;

To reiterate: to send mail to DrugWar (for roughly the next 24-72hrs),
send to: drugwar@phantom.com (instead of @mindvox.com), to send mail to
ibogaine, send to: ibogaine@phantom.com

Everything will go back to where it was Real Soon Now.

Patrick

From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: ListS
Date: December 16, 2002 at 6:39:44 PM EST
To: ibogaine@phantom.com, drugwar@phantom.com, crashtestdummies@phantom.com, bk@phantom.com

DNS for mindvox.com will be back to normal within 24-72hrs.  Hopefully
closer to 24.  In the interim, all lists work, but you need to send
@phantom.com instead of @mindvox.com.  i.e.,

ibogaine@phantom.com
drugwar@phantom.com

etc…

Reply-To HAS NOT been reset, this means if you click <Reply> to a message,
it’s still trying to send to @mindvox.com, and it WILL bounce.  We haven’t
reset the entire mail system, since it’s all going back to mindvox Any
Minute Now, in fact all we have done is:

find . -exec perl -pi -e ‘s/@mindvox.com/@phantom.com/g’ {} \;

To reiterate: to send mail to DrugWar (for roughly the next 24-72hrs),
send to: drugwar@phantom.com (instead of @mindvox.com), to send mail to
ibogaine, send to: ibogaine@phantom.com

Everything will go back to where it was Real Soon Now.

Patrick

From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: DNS Errors — Current Status
Date: December 16, 2002 at 2:58:46 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com, drugwar@mindvox.com

DNS should be fixed Any Minute Now.  Apparently on Dec 13th mindvox
Mysteriously Vanished from the nic database that goes to the root
nameservers, and directs people to our dns, to get name resolution.  All
the ibogaine shit, various other domains we have, and phantom itself —
which is just cloned to mindvox.com; are all there.

Basically, we either Vanished, just because, shit happens; or, somebody
who couldn’t get into mindvox, got into networksolutions and Made Changes.
Therefore we are doing the reasonable thing and yelling at supervisors at
Netsol, whose gross negligence has obviously cost us well over $20 million
dollars through the weekend, and we’re gonna sue them until dead.  Or at
least, make their lives suck for the afternoon, because, basically, Fuck
Them, FIX EVERYTHING immediately if not sooner, because we fucking hate
you and all of you are idiots.

Uhm, anyway…

Please note: Once reset, DNS can take up to 12 hours to propagate to Your
Location <wherever that happens to be>.

Domain Name: MINDVOX.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: NS1.EASYDNS.COM
Name Server: NS2.EASYDNS.COM
Name Server: REMOTE1.EASYDNS.COM
Name Server: REMOTE2.EASYDNS.COM
Updated Date: 13-dec-2002

Patrick

From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] [bcalabrese@yahoo.com: Re: [ibogaine] List Admin Crap … Just got bounced mail]
Date: December 16, 2002 at 2:10:59 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Uhm, otay.  By the way, it’s “sacrament@mindvox.com”
sacrament-subscribe@mindvox.com

All mail which is bouncing has DNS errors upstream.  I have just checked
*our* DNS, and everything is all-good.  Checking mail and the IP’s,
roughly half the nameservers where I am right now, find mindvox.com, the
other half do not…

I dunno what’s up yet, there is a problem with the root DNS servers
sumplace.

What this means: when you type @mindvox.com, DNS translates that into an
IP, which routes you and/or your message to the location @mindvox.com.
Right now, DNS is *not* routing correctly for some people.

Will post an update later today.  Whatever the problem upstream — usually
this means someone didn’t pay the bill <whoopsie>, which checking right
now, we have; more than 9 out of 13 have been hammered and thus the whole
entire internet is falling apart <doesn’t seem to be happening>, or there
is some sort of technical problem or something.  Computers have those, go
figure — somebody should probably do something about all this.

Patrick

From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] List Admin Crap … Just got bounced mail
Date: December 16, 2002 at 2:19:27 PM EST
To: digital@phantom.com

Patrick,

Just posted and got bounced mail – see below

Have “fun” and welcome back (sucker)

Brett
From MAILER-DAEMON@yahoo.com Mon Dec 16 11:13:39 2002
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address(es).

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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:13:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in
Canada.
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
In-Reply-To:
<20021213212941.32643.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Sheldon,

Welcome, see comments.

Brett
— Jaden Harder <jadensheldon@yahoo.ca> wrote:
Hi my names Sheldon and I have recently done
Ibogaine
under the care of some people who have started a
house.

Congradulations, one small step for mankind, one large
step for Sheldon.

To date I have never been able to talk to
anyone who really has any idea what I went through
with the Ibogaine or what has been happening
since(all positive).

I’ll bet. I have found it pretty much impossible to
describe to anyone unfamiliar with ibogaine, any
attempt usually adds more confusion (yeah, a
hallucinogenic, you want to get high, right… or
there is no such thing as what I am describing).

Well, if it helps, you got a bunch of folks here that
did ibo. Also see ibogaine@ibogaine.org – the original
ibogaine list AND a work in progress is the
“Sacriment” that is getting started
(sacriment@mindvox.com). It will be for folks like you
who have done ibogaine and then are at that “what’s
next” stage, give it some time but YOU can help get it
going since YOU are the target audience.

I am doing many new things for after
treatment which I know is necessary but Im on my own
here and I may have to move away from where I have
found all of this treatment.

Do whatever it takes.

Need someone to talk
to.

You are in the right place.

Dont want to go back to where I used to use. Need to
relate to someone. But feeling really great and full
of energy.

Some of that fades in time (the ibo-glow), some
doesn’t. I have done ibo a number of times, so have
many other people on this list, I certainly will do it
again.

A response would be a great thing. Also I
would like to know what poepl think about follow up
to
Ibogaine.

Very many things. The nutshell version is get a life,
make changes, eat right, get some sort of
spirituality, get exercise, some form of getting to
the issues – happy people do not generally become
addicts…. Some people like AA/12 steps, others may
do Rational Recovery/Smart Recovery or similar, some
get with GOD/JC, others may do new-age stuff, I like
Yoga, maybe Tai Chi works for you. I fly sports kites
(hobby), grow orchids (harmless addiction and social
event – would you believe I belong to the Orchid
Society?), love to cook/eat/do nutrition. Sometimes I
have to just put one foot in front of the other (as
they say, some days all you can do is “nust not get
high”), other times I can leap tall buildings in a
single bound. Lets see, I quit smoking 5 months ago
(yeah!) and nicorette 3 weeks ago – gotta keep
growing/moving – DO NOT STAY STILL FOR LONG. I do what
works and don’t do what don’t work/also do stuff I can
and don’t do what I can’t (as in some people stop
drugging and can drink socially/glass of wine with
dinner, I can’t, others can’t do narcotic pain meds, I
can).

Is it just something you do and then move
on? Maybe someone knows where I can find others on

Well, your treatment is hardly over… meaning, the
ibo is still doing stuff and there will be changes
directly related to having taken ibo – for months
(likely). There will very likely be stuff going on and
stuff that stops going on that you would do well to
speak with people who have done ibo with. Like I said,
the ibo glow fades in time, for me that was depressing
(where did IT go, everything was so easy and then it
got hard again – not AS hard, but harder than it
was…). I don’t think it is one way or the other,
some more or less move on, some get “involved”, some
stay with the ibo (as in myself). One thing for myself
is even just the first time I did ibo will never leave
me – it is part of me, not something I can move on
without.

Well, again welcome. Feel free to contact me on/off
the list anytime.

Brett

the
Net? Thanx for your help.

Sheldon

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— “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com> wrote:
Over the weekend a buncha shit moved from one server
to another; this wuz
done so that when MindVox lights up and proceeds to
go down in flames a
few hundred times; it doesn’t take the web site(s)
and lists with it.

If you have experienced any problems with either the
ibogaine list or
drugwar — and sum of you have, since I have a
buncha mail to that effect
— please try to post to the lists Right Now.

If you are still having trouble, or your mail is
bouncing, I need a copy
of your message in order to figure out what is
wrong; in particular the
headers and the error msg(s).  Just click whatever
does [F]orward, on your
email client, and send it to me: digital@phantom.com

Please note, I prolly will be unable to respond to
you on an individual
basis, but if there are any problems remaining;
reading the headers will
allow us to fix them.

Thanks,

Patrick

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From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: List Admin Crap …
Date: December 16, 2002 at 1:42:18 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com, drugwar@mindvox.com

Over the weekend a buncha shit moved from one server to another; this wuz
done so that when MindVox lights up and proceeds to go down in flames a
few hundred times; it doesn’t take the web site(s) and lists with it.

If you have experienced any problems with either the ibogaine list or
drugwar — and sum of you have, since I have a buncha mail to that effect
— please try to post to the lists Right Now.

If you are still having trouble, or your mail is bouncing, I need a copy
of your message in order to figure out what is wrong; in particular the
headers and the error msg(s).  Just click whatever does [F]orward, on your
email client, and send it to me: digital@phantom.com

Please note, I prolly will be unable to respond to you on an individual
basis, but if there are any problems remaining; reading the headers will
allow us to fix them.

Thanks,

Patrick

From: “Patrick K. Kroupa” <digital@phantom.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] bl1p
Date: December 16, 2002 at 1:35:32 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

.

From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Burton hints at legalization
Date: December 13, 2002 at 5:53:26 PM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Sorry, I left the “p” (as in Rep.) off his title-
Representative Dan Burton, R- IN. Chairman of the Government Reform Committee who presided over his final hearing as chair yesterday, in a hearing about Colombian Heroin trafficking.
Peace,
Preston
—– Original Message —–
From: Jon Freedlander
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Burton hints at legalization

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, preston peet wrote:

> Re. Dan Burton just freakin asked what would happen if we made sure there wasn’t any money being made off of drugs, saying he doubts the Colombians would be planting all these drugs if they weren’t able to make money, just like AL CAPONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

stupid question….who’s dan burton?

From: Jaden Harder <jadensheldon@yahoo.ca>
Subject: [ibogaine] Recently took Ibogaine in Canada.
Date: December 13, 2002 at 4:29:41 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hi my names Sheldon and I have recently done Ibogaine
under the care of some people who have started a
house. To date I have never been able to talk to
anyone who really has any idea what I went through
with the Ibogaine or what has been happening since(all
positive). I am doing many new things for after
treatment which I know is necessary but Im on my own
here and I may have to move away from where I have
found all of this treatment. Need someone to talk to.
Dont want to go back to where I used to use. Need to
relate to someone. But feeling really great and full
of energy. A response would be a great thing. Also I
would like to know what poepl think about follow up to
Ibogaine. Is it just something you do and then move
on? Maybe someone knows where I can find others on the
Net? Thanx for your help.

Sheldon

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From: Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Rep. Harold Ford just smiled…
Date: December 13, 2002 at 4:06:51 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Alison Senepart wrote:

How come the drug laws affect the African Americans more than the whites.  I
don’t really know how or why that works but perhaps I’m being a bit thick or
behind the news but would like to know.  Thanks Allison

Well, from surveys that have been done (i.e. Monitoring the Future, etc)
drug abuse is pretty evenly distributed amoung the socio-economic strata,
and ethnicities.

But drive through a rich, white area, and look to see how many cops are
there cruising for drug offenders. Then drive through the inner city, and
do the same…

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From: Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Burton hints at legalization
Date: December 13, 2002 at 3:00:26 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, preston peet wrote:

Re. Dan Burton just freakin asked what would happen if we made sure there wasn’t any money being made off of drugs, saying he doubts the Colombians would be planting all these drugs if they weren’t able to make money, just like AL CAPONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

stupid question….who’s dan burton?

From: Ustanova Iboga <Iboga@guest.arnes.si>
Subject: [ibogaine] Leary
Date: December 13, 2002 at 2:59:53 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hey,

I’ve just seen a 50-minute show (film? movie?) on our national TV about Timothy Leary (made by BBC, author was Dai Richards) and it seems that Rick Doblin helped to make it ;-))

Brought back a bit of feeling from Good Old Times…

Marko

From: “steve diamond” <stevediamond79@hotmail.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] There are good people
Date: December 13, 2002 at 2:27:21 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I would like to publicly express my gratitude towards J. Callan of Ethnogarden. When he heard that I had been ripped off by those fucking beat artist scumbags at Ethnoplanet. One day you motherfuckers… Jay offered to provide me a couple of doses of his Ibo extract for research purposes of course. I recently returned from Canada and plan to conduct my research on the weekend of December 27.

I, like many persons on this list, have tried many things over the last ten years including the dreaded meth and three detoxes. One of them cost $12,000 at Hazleton. I have been to thousands of 12 step meetings but continue to revert to negative behavior. My desire to go to meetings is now practically non existent. One positive thing I would like to say about the 12 step meetings is that I got in touch with a spiritual side of myself that I never knew existed. It is my understanding that I am in store for the most powerful spiritual voyage of my life. God help me.

I shall document my experiences in detail for those persons such as myself who found this list looking for information and guidance in a desperate, last ditch attempt to save the lives of themselves and their families. I was certainly NOT interested in a discussion on the ethical treatment of feline genitalia.

Thanks again to J. and to Brett Calabrese who has been kind enough to offer very detailed advice about my problem.

Steve Diamond

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From: Gamma <gammalyte9000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts ::: Pain Management
Date: December 13, 2002 at 12:40:11 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

— Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu> wrote:
But since a number of people on this list have
reported this after being clean for some time, it makes me wonder if
prolonged activation of the opiod system might reduce one’s pain thresh
hold long term.

I think this is more to the point, and belive that is the case for me. Its kind
of a catch 22 situation because I am more sensitive to pain, yet I am
sensitized to opiates and have a high tolerance to them. I recently had a
severly sprained muscle in my neck for 5+ weeks. With several visits to the ER,
the Doctors were impressed by how much Dilaudid I could metabolize, even with
the Fenegrin[spell?] added. I had to take a pretty good dose of oxycontin daily
because the weaker painkillers just weren’t doing shit for me. It’s really
strange having legitimate chronic pain with a junkie past and going to see the
doctor. I never really worked doctors when I was using (everything I know about
prescription scams I learned in NA meetings) but I can’t help but feel a little
weird asking for pain relief… Its taking me some time to get un-brainwashed
from the 12 step cultisim, i guess. And now I’m faced with weaning off the damn
stuff.

But pain management is a real issue for us ex-addicts and someone very close to
me has been dealing with acute and chronic pain for 18 months now with a long
history in the opiate realm… and could be facing life-long pain management
after going thru being strung out, doing Ibo and being clean for 5 years. Its
scary and its not like we haven’t tried ALL the alternatives, from massage,
chiropractic, shamans, Brazillian rainforest healers, yoga, pilates, Jacuzzi,
you name it and the list goes on. All these things have helped a little in one
way or another but the core pain hasn’t gone away for her.

To the people who have mentioned headaches…is it just headaches? or do
you get other pain as well?

For me it’s headaches, neck/back pain & overall body aches. I’ve been in
several car accidents not to mention physical abuse as a child and plenty of
falling out of trees, down stairs etc and the subsequent pain of a broken back
12 years ago was the driving force behind my freefall into Heroin and all it’s
relatives, which I believe in the long run fried my opiate receptors and
dopamine balance.

So far, we haven’t found any answers to the ex-addict/chronic pain scenario.
But I’m all ears.

-gamma

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From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] The “New” Colombian Heroin Trade- Here we go again
Date: December 13, 2002 at 11:18:03 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>, <drugwar@mindvox.com>
Cc: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>, “spynews” <spynews@yahoogroups.com>, “CRRH” <restore@crrh.org>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>Fexis Jiminez, DEA NY<

Ooops, this should read Felix Jiminez, DEA NY.
peace,
Preston
—– Original Message —–
From: preston peet
To: drugwar@mindvox.com
Cc: ibogaine@mindvox.com ; spynews ; CRRH
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:00 AM
Subject: [ibogaine] The “New” Colombian Heroin Trade- Here we go again

Hi all,
I noticed while researching the (one heck of a lot of) links for this
article that what I noticed happening was not what other reporters noticed-
I noted the mycoherbicide proposal and the questions related to
legalization, while other reporters noted that the committee was not happy
with the figures stated by witnesses in relation to how much destruction has
been carried out on Colombia and it’s people…I mean, bad drug crops,
saying they didn’t add up.
But gee, this is such an old story. I found articles noting that way
back in the early 90s Congress, and others, were bemoaning the fact that
since the late 80s coca production had “tripled” in Colombia since the US
got involved there, and yet during yesterday’s testimony we heard yet again
that since ’96, Colombian coca production has again tripled. (gosh, like in
Afghanistan? What a surprise.)
There was testimony that I do not mention in this article that the US
called off its spray planes from spraying the much more addictive poppy
crops as they were so interested in “destroying” coca crops, (the ones that
have tripled in production since the US got involved, more than once). But
the whole “we’re facing a new threat of super-duper Colombian heroin
flooding out streets, (yeah, there’s been a whole 12 overdose deaths this
year in Westmoreland, Penn., noted by a Det. Tony Marcocci- we’re spending
how many millions upon millions to save 12 people here, 12 people there? How
many people die in car accident every freakin day here?) is rehashed
bologna. Yeah, they MIGHT be growing more poppies, but certain members have
been crying about a “new” Colombian heroin threat since ’95, according to
older Congressional testimony, linked within the following article. These
people are horrid.
Rabid prohibitionist meanie Rep. Mica totally blasted the idea that we
need more treatment in this country, and 3 or the 4 cops who testified on
the first panel said they knew of NO successful cases of treatment for
heroin in the US, contrary to what the 4th said, (Tom Carr, Director HIAT
for Baltimore/Washington DC) who noted Drug Substitution as being just one
positive treatment modality.
Another, Det. Sergeant Scott Pelletier of the Portland Police, told
Congress that the new Colombian dope is so pure people are buying and
getting high from 1-100th of a gram of this new super-dope, and that young
people can get addicted from using just one time. While I’m not one hundred
percent sure about that 1 100th of a gram stuff, both comments sound like
completely typical prohibitionist bullshit. Det. Tony Carcocci did note that
most heroin addicts tell him they started with prescription drugs, NOT
marijuana amazingly enough.
Fexis Jiminez, DEA NY, told the Committee that he thought mandatory
minimum policies need looking at, particularly for herion- he wants to
INCREASE and IMPLEMENT them to handle those dastardly dope heads, as too
many are getting out of prison after say a mere 3 years. One of the
witnesses said that locking people up was the best treatment method, but I
can’t find it in my notes now, so can’t point my finger at them and say,
“MEANIE!”
Anyway, please forward this to anyone and everyone you think might get
something out of this article.
Burton really blew my mind when he brought up the possibility of
removing the money making potential from the drug trade. Never thought I’d
see the day, and of course it came during his last appearance as chair of
the Government Reform Committee. And Barry Crane acting Dep. Director of of
the ONDCP also said some interesting things, like “we need to treat drugs as
commodities and take a look at what hasn’t worked in the past. I’ve been
told there are some other interesting addmission in his submitted written
testimony, but haven’t found it online yet.
Enjoy, and vote.

http://www.drugwar.com/coloheroinhearing.shtm

The “New” Colombian Heroin Trade-
Here We Go Again
by Preston Peet- for DrugWar.com
posted Dec. 13, 2002

At the hearing “America’s Heroin Crisis, Colombian Heroin, and How We Can
Improve Plan Colombia,” held by the Committee on Government Reform, (Dec.
12, 2002) one long-time prohibitionist publicly pondered what might happen
if profit motives were removed from the drug trade, and another voiced his
support for shooting down unarmed civilian aircraft and dumping mass amounts
of deadly mycoherbicides on the country of Colombia and everything that
lives there.

(photo)
Rep. Dan Burton (R- IN)

Having taken part in over 100 Congressional hearings about illegal drugs and
drug policies, Representative Dan Burton (R- IN) has always heard the same
stories as he watched the drug “crises” continue to grow unabated. Burton
blathered on using old Drug War rhetoric about the “new” threat of Colombian
heroin, which he insisted is “the most deadly and addictive” heroin, and
that “under the Clinton Administration we spent too much time on treatment
and not enough on eradication.”

Then, after carefully noting that he “hates drugs and people who succumb to
drug use,” he asked the first panel of the day, a table full of
prohibitionist police and federal representatives who depend upon the War on
Some Drugs and Users for their livelihood, “what would happen if there was
no profit in drugs?” It is a question that should be asked, Burton said, but
as he himself bluntly stated, US politicians have been too scared to ask it.
Burton asked this after mentioning the assassination of Colombian drug lord
Pablo Escabor, bemoaning the fact that everytime “we” kill one drug dealer,
ten more step up to take their place because there’s so much money to be
made.

snip-

Read complete article and access multiple links at above URL

Peace,
Preston Peet
ptpeet@nyc.rr.com
Editor http://www.drugwar.com
Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
“The infernal suggestions of the Press, and
the vile venality of the villains attracted to the
traffic by the immense profits, are deliberately
creating new addicts every day of people who
would no more think of indulging in narcotics
than a cat in a cold bath.”
Aleister Crowley- The Great Drug Delusion, 1922

From: “Alison Senepart” <aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Rep. Harold Ford just smiled…
Date: December 13, 2002 at 5:49:13 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

How come the drug laws affect the African Americans more than the whites.  I
don’t really know how or why that works but perhaps I’m being a bit thick or
behind the news but would like to know.  Thanks Allison
—–Original Message—–
From: steve diamond <stevediamond79@hotmail.com>
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Date: Friday, 13 December 2002 04:39
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Rep. Harold Ford just smiled…

I work as a freelance television technician in DC. I have worked on every
major public affairs program for every network. I’ve worked with Harold
Ford
on many occassions. He is somebody to keep your eyes on. He is really
moving
through the ranks quickly. I would not be surprised if he runs for
president
or VP in ten years.

Great job pressing him on the marijuana issue. Not many people would have
the guts to ask him that question. I thought by now with so many
“experienced” congressmen on the Hill, legalization would have happened a
long time ago.

The drug laws effect African Americans to a much greater degree than
whites.
Ford is particularly active on issues effecting African Americans. He is
more suited than others to sponsor legislation due to his race and age.
Keep
up the pressure.

Steve Diamond

From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
To: <drugwar@mindvox.com>
CC: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] Rep. Harold Ford just smiled…
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 05:58:07 -0500

Hey all,
Rep. Harold Ford (http://www.house.gov/ford/) was in the bar Lotus
tonight, on 14th Street Manhattan, where my girlfriend V bartends a couple
nights a week. She recognized him when he came up to get drinks for
himself
and the girlfriend he was with. After telling him she recognized him
because her boyfriend, (me) watches C-Span all the time, he introduced
himself with a handshake. He came across as “really nice” she says. So,
after the handshake and ice-breaking was over, V brightly came out with a
“so, when are you going to lobby for marijuana legalization?”
He gave her a big, but silent, grin.
She said, “I’m serious man, it’s time. It’s time for marijuana to be
legalized.”
He still only smiled and mumbled something to his girlfriend. Later
he
came back to the bar and asked her if I did, and if I were in Washington
at
all, due to I guess her having told him about my C-Span addiction. She
smiled in her own turn and said, “He writes for High Times magazine.”
“Oh, I see,” said he, and that was the end of it.
Planting seeds that may take root. If we all do the same at every
opportunity, perhaps those seeds will sprout. I just wish I’d been there.
Peace,
Preston Peet
ptpeet@nyc.rr.com
Editor http://www.drugwar.com
Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
“Prohibition creates an irresistibly lucrative
opportunity for entrepreneurs willing to operate
in illicit business. It is the policy
of idealists who cannot appreciate that the use
of drugs often reflects other sets of human
ideals: human perfectibility, the yearning
for a perfect moment, the peace that comes
from oblivion.” Richard Davenport-Hines

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From: Bill Ross <ross@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 12, 2002 at 1:55:55 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Kombucha has been proven to cure or provide relief of  the following
illnesses:

I would also consider Cat’s Claw. There is a big variety of
rainforest and other herbals that one could explore for various
complaints.

Bill Ross

From: “sara glatt” <sara119@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 12, 2002 at 1:09:48 PM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Kombucha has been proven to cure or provide relief of  the following
illnesses:

headache, dizziness, nausea, tiredness, weariness, nervousness, sleepiness,
stress, geriatric complaints, glaucoma, gout, rheumatism , joint and back
pain, arthritis, arteries sclerosis, stroke, skin disease, rash, shingles,
ulcers, chickenpox, hemorrhoids, under activity of the intestines,
blockages, diarrhea, obesity, liver and gall troubles, gallstones, cancer,
diabetes.

it is a cheap way of detox.It is new part of the treatment We give in
Holland “‘kombucha therapy”.

Sara

—– Original Message —–
From: “Brett Calabrese” <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts

“can’t find a very effective pain reliever without it
being an opiate and opiates just start triggering MORE
headaches for me”

Well, yes and yes. A few things happen. 1 is rebound
headaches – this can happen from opiates and other
medication used for headaches – fiorinal is a good
example, 2 is that some people (I do) will get
headaches from opiates – I gotta take a lot though and
3, once you (I) start mucking with replacing
endorphins, they want to be replaced… So with me
what happens is once I start taking opiates, after a
short time (a couple days) THINGS START TO HURT  (like
headaches) if I don’t take anything… Recognizing
this and going contrary to how it feels (it feels like
I need more drugs!) is a key element to successfully
using pain meds in “recovery”.

“seem to remember you saying you DON’T really like
opiates, but were “dependent” on them due to “legit”
pain. Is that accurate?”

Pretty much. I did dope, dilaudid, percs… but
opiates where not usually (except dilaudid) my #1 drug
of choice, it wasn’t the thing that grabbed me as hard
as other things, Coke and alcohol did that. For the
most part I don’t like them even if I like them (now)
-eg, I dislike vicodin more than I “like” it – I LIKE
percs more than I dislike it (I get side effects like
insomnia and irritability from opiates – go figure)
but in LIKING IT, I don’t like it – I am not
comfortable LIKING something these days. So, to repeat
what I said to the doc about the percs, “they are too
easy to take (on a regular basis) but not that I have
a problem keeping a few around for the real bad days –
(the worst of the worst)”. If I were so enclined to
get high on an opiate, sure I would do some Oxy or
Dilaudid if I had a choice, dope was nice but nothing
to write home about,  morphine (eh), levo, hydrocodone
(vicodin) and some others I never cared for very much
but did them.  Now, if coke were switched for dope in
pain treatment (and I actually did that one) and I had
to take some form of coke when I got headaches – I
would have serious problems, and did… It was a
treatment for headaches using cocaine (yes by a
doctor) – after years of not using coke… OOPS! that
was not a good idea… and off to the races was I. I
don’t know, maybe now I wouldn’t be “off to the races”
if they had to prescribe coke but it would fuck with
me. It is all a matter of where you want pain, if you
want it in your head, don’t take pain meds, if you
want it to fuck with your head (but not headaches),
then take pain meds. The best I can do is take pain
meds infrequently.

“I can deal with pain in any other part of my body
pretty well, and most OTC stuff works well for
anything but headaches,”

Headaches and facial pain are difficult. I have been
to a fuckin zillion docs, anything they give me/do to
me to make it better either doesn’t work, makes it
worse or has all kinds of side effects.

“it’s just that headaches make me want to get high
more than anything else and I’m not good at all at
tolerating the pain when it’s in my head.”

(“in my head”, that wasn’t a pun was it?)

Exactly my problem – I get in a lot of pain and I want
to get FUCKED UP – the sanity/serenity is out the
window, I don’t “care” at that point. Which is wny I
use pain meds – cuz I will use something else if I
don’t – simple as that.

“I’ve just been wondering how other folks do use
opiates, if you have been previously addicted to them
specifically? ”

My brother uses opiates for pain and he was a “real”
heroin addict (seen him kick more times than I can
remember), he doesn’t “like” taking pain meds
either… I know a number of former opiate addicts who
use opiates for pain with varying degrees of success
(or failure), some still play a little, some get in a
little trouble now and then, some a lot… If you are
a newbee at it and not solid in NEVER GOING BACK
THERE, have no clue how to take them (and the good
doctors are like the blind leading the blind) and how
not to take them (as infrequently as you can…), then
it is often a set-up for another trip on the
Merry-Go-Round or a good mind fucking.

It is a difficult issue/problem.

Brett

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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 12, 2002 at 12:39:31 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

“can’t find a very effective pain reliever without it
being an opiate and opiates just start triggering MORE
headaches for me”

Well, yes and yes. A few things happen. 1 is rebound
headaches – this can happen from opiates and other
medication used for headaches – fiorinal is a good
example, 2 is that some people (I do) will get
headaches from opiates – I gotta take a lot though and
3, once you (I) start mucking with replacing
endorphins, they want to be replaced… So with me
what happens is once I start taking opiates, after a
short time (a couple days) THINGS START TO HURT  (like
headaches) if I don’t take anything… Recognizing
this and going contrary to how it feels (it feels like
I need more drugs!) is a key element to successfully
using pain meds in “recovery”.

“seem to remember you saying you DON’T really like
opiates, but were “dependent” on them due to “legit”
pain. Is that accurate?”

Pretty much. I did dope, dilaudid, percs… but
opiates where not usually (except dilaudid) my #1 drug
of choice, it wasn’t the thing that grabbed me as hard
as other things, Coke and alcohol did that. For the
most part I don’t like them even if I like them (now)
-eg, I dislike vicodin more than I “like” it – I LIKE
percs more than I dislike it (I get side effects like
insomnia and irritability from opiates – go figure)
but in LIKING IT, I don’t like it – I am not
comfortable LIKING something these days. So, to repeat
what I said to the doc about the percs, “they are too
easy to take (on a regular basis) but not that I have
a problem keeping a few around for the real bad days –
(the worst of the worst)”. If I were so enclined to
get high on an opiate, sure I would do some Oxy or
Dilaudid if I had a choice, dope was nice but nothing
to write home about,  morphine (eh), levo, hydrocodone
(vicodin) and some others I never cared for very much
but did them.  Now, if coke were switched for dope in
pain treatment (and I actually did that one) and I had
to take some form of coke when I got headaches – I
would have serious problems, and did… It was a
treatment for headaches using cocaine (yes by a
doctor) – after years of not using coke… OOPS! that
was not a good idea… and off to the races was I. I
don’t know, maybe now I wouldn’t be “off to the races”
if they had to prescribe coke but it would fuck with
me. It is all a matter of where you want pain, if you
want it in your head, don’t take pain meds, if you
want it to fuck with your head (but not headaches),
then take pain meds. The best I can do is take pain
meds infrequently.

“I can deal with pain in any other part of my body
pretty well, and most OTC stuff works well for
anything but headaches,”

Headaches and facial pain are difficult. I have been
to a fuckin zillion docs, anything they give me/do to
me to make it better either doesn’t work, makes it
worse or has all kinds of side effects.

“it’s just that headaches make me want to get high
more than anything else and I’m not good at all at
tolerating the pain when it’s in my head.”

(“in my head”, that wasn’t a pun was it?)

Exactly my problem – I get in a lot of pain and I want
to get FUCKED UP – the sanity/serenity is out the
window, I don’t “care” at that point. Which is wny I
use pain meds – cuz I will use something else if I
don’t – simple as that.

“I’ve just been wondering how other folks do use
opiates, if you have been previously addicted to them
specifically? ”

My brother uses opiates for pain and he was a “real”
heroin addict (seen him kick more times than I can
remember), he doesn’t “like” taking pain meds
either… I know a number of former opiate addicts who
use opiates for pain with varying degrees of success
(or failure), some still play a little, some get in a
little trouble now and then, some a lot… If you are
a newbee at it and not solid in NEVER GOING BACK
THERE, have no clue how to take them (and the good
doctors are like the blind leading the blind) and how
not to take them (as infrequently as you can…), then
it is often a set-up for another trip on the
Merry-Go-Round or a good mind fucking.

It is a difficult issue/problem.

Brett

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From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] Burton hints at legalization
Date: December 12, 2002 at 12:34:17 PM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Re. Dan Burton just freakin asked what would happen if we made sure there wasn’t any money being made off of drugs, saying he doubts the Colombians would be planting all these drugs if they weren’t able to make money, just like AL CAPONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone, please anybody, tell me you’ve got this on TAPE!!!!!
I NEVER thought I’d see this day. Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He says it has to be asked, that politicians are too scared to pose this question today.
Peace,
Preston Peet
ptpeet@nyc.rr.com
Editor http://www.drugwar.com
Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
“Prohibition creates an irresistibly lucrative
opportunity for entrepreneurs willing to operate
in illicit business. It is the policy
of idealists who cannot appreciate that the use
of drugs often reflects other sets of human
ideals: human perfectibility, the yearning
for a perfect moment, the peace that comes
from oblivion.” Richard Davenport-Hines

From: “steve diamond” <stevediamond79@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Rep. Harold Ford just smiled…
Date: December 12, 2002 at 10:38:52 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I work as a freelance television technician in DC. I have worked on every major public affairs program for every network. I’ve worked with Harold Ford on many occassions. He is somebody to keep your eyes on. He is really moving through the ranks quickly. I would not be surprised if he runs for president or VP in ten years.

Great job pressing him on the marijuana issue. Not many people would have the guts to ask him that question. I thought by now with so many “experienced” congressmen on the Hill, legalization would have happened a long time ago.

The drug laws effect African Americans to a much greater degree than whites. Ford is particularly active on issues effecting African Americans. He is more suited than others to sponsor legislation due to his race and age. Keep up the pressure.

Steve Diamond

From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
To: <drugwar@mindvox.com>
CC: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] Rep. Harold Ford just smiled…
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 05:58:07 -0500

Hey all,
Rep. Harold Ford (http://www.house.gov/ford/) was in the bar Lotus tonight, on 14th Street Manhattan, where my girlfriend V bartends a couple nights a week. She recognized him when he came up to get drinks for himself and the girlfriend he was with. After telling him she recognized him because her boyfriend, (me) watches C-Span all the time, he introduced himself with a handshake. He came across as “really nice” she says. So, after the handshake and ice-breaking was over, V brightly came out with a “so, when are you going to lobby for marijuana legalization?”
He gave her a big, but silent, grin.
She said, “I’m serious man, it’s time. It’s time for marijuana to be legalized.”
He still only smiled and mumbled something to his girlfriend. Later he came back to the bar and asked her if I did, and if I were in Washington at all, due to I guess her having told him about my C-Span addiction. She smiled in her own turn and said, “He writes for High Times magazine.”
“Oh, I see,” said he, and that was the end of it.
Planting seeds that may take root. If we all do the same at every opportunity, perhaps those seeds will sprout. I just wish I’d been there. Peace,
Preston Peet
ptpeet@nyc.rr.com
Editor http://www.drugwar.com
Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
“Prohibition creates an irresistibly lucrative
opportunity for entrepreneurs willing to operate
in illicit business. It is the policy
of idealists who cannot appreciate that the use
of drugs often reflects other sets of human
ideals: human perfectibility, the yearning
for a perfect moment, the peace that comes
from oblivion.” Richard Davenport-Hines

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From: “booker w” <swbooker@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 11, 2002 at 10:15:19 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hi.  I’m the one who said I have the headaches and can’t find a very effective pain reliever without it being an opiate and opiates just start triggering MORE headaches for me.  Thanks Brett, for all your info.  I think you’re right on that you have to tolerate as much pain as possible and then get to that point where you have to end the pain for a while or go nuts, but I also seem to remember you saying you DON’T really like opiates, but were “dependent” on them due to “legit” pain. Is that accurate?
I don’t have Hep C, also don’t have high blood pressure, altho I am sure high blood pressure can cause headaches for certain (had a friend with that problem.)  I get headaches mostly from tension and sinus problems, sensitive teeth, etc. but I also agree that opiate use did and still does make me much more sensitive to pain and less able/willing to tolerate pain.  I’ve been clean long enough that I should have my own endorphins in pretty good order, but no doubt I’ve always had a low pain threshold.  I can deal with pain in any other part of my body pretty well, and most OTC stuff works well for anything but headaches, it’s just that headaches make me want to get high more than anything else and I’m not good at all at tolerating the pain when it’s in my head.  I’ve just been wondering how other folks do use opiates, if you have been previously addicted to them specifically?
Still wondering if anyone has any experience with Subutex, too?
Best wishes, Sandy

>From: “Alison Senepart”

>Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>To:

>Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts

>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:50:10 +1300

>

>I was really interested to read the bit about someone getting bad headaches.

>I am really plagued with them and have days where I could just stay in bed

>cos it hurts so much,

> but am not sure if thats to do with being an

>opiate addict or something else. Only thing is they seem to get worse every

>time I fall off the rails and then straighten up. Would be good to hear

>other opinions on that. PS. I also have high blood pressure which could be

>a problem associated with it but am not sure. I also wondered if there was

>a connection with Hep C and the liver so any info or comments would be well

>received.

>.

>Thanks Allison

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Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 11, 2002 at 8:34:57 PM EST
To: swbooker@hotmail.com

Hi.  I’m the one who said I have the headaches and can’t find a very effective pain reliever without it being an opiate and opiates just start triggering MORE headaches for me, too.  Thanks Brett, for all your info.  I think you’re right that you have to tolerate as much as possible and then get to that point where you have to END the pain for a while or go nuts, but I seem to remember you saying you DON’T like opiates, but were “dependent” on them due to “legit” pain.
I don’t have Hep C, also don’t have high blood pressure, altho I am sure high blood pressure can cause headaches for certain.  I get headaches mostly from tension and sinus problems, but I also agree that opiate use did and still does make me much more sensitive to pain and less able/willing to tolerate pain.  I’ve been clean long enough that I should have my own endorphins in pretty good order, but no doubt I’ve always had a low pain threshold.  I can deal with pain in any other part of my body pretty well, and most OTC stuff works well for anything but

>From: “Alison Senepart”

>Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>To:

>Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts

>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:50:10 +1300

>

>I was really interested to read the bit about someone getting bad headaches.

>I am really plagued with them and have days where I could just stay in bed

>cos it hurts so much,

> but am not sure if thats to do with being an

>opiate addict or something else. Only thing is they seem to get worse every

>time I fall off the rails and then straighten up. Would be good to hear

>other opinions on that. PS. I also have high blood pressure which could be

>a problem associated with it but am not sure. I also wondered if there was

>a connection with Hep C and the liver so any info or comments would be well

>received.

>.

>Thanks Allison

From: MARC <marc420emery@shaw.ca>
Subject: [ibogaine] Oh yes there are addicts
Date: December 11, 2002 at 7:05:41 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

We define addiction as ‘repetitive self-destructive behaviour’, so this
could be an eating disorder, a drug depenency, aggression, etc.

Things that are good for you or beneficial may become ‘habits’, but they are
not vices.

Marc Emery
Iboga Therapy House

—– Original Message —–
From: “Jon Freedlander” <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 GM40JM98@aol.com wrote:

WE ARE ALL ADDICTED TO ONE SUBSTANCE OR ANOTHER IE;Oxygen,People,Water
ect.
Get the picture?

well, that depends on how you define addiction…

the way psychologists define dependency (they don’t use the word
“addiction”) is a compulsive use of a substance despite repeated negative
consequences.

Not TOO many people have repeated negative consequences from oxygen or
water…. people on the other hand is another matter entirely… =)

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Date: December 11, 2002 at 3:49:50 PM EST
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Alison Senepart wrote:

I know Hep C is involved with  disease of the liver.   What I was asking
about was chronic headaches and their association with any of the problems
with opiate addiction or Hep C.   Someone else wrote a message about getting
headaches and I was interested to know if others had similar problems.
Allison

Oh, sorry about that…that’s what i get for reading my email after sleep
deprivation =P

Yes, headache is a common symtpom of chronic hepatitis. Other symptoms
include flu-like illness, indigestion, irritable bowel syndrome, muscle
and joint pain, night sweats, depression or other mood problems, fatigue,
lack of concentration and confusion, itchy skin, dizziness, vision
problems, problems with urination, loss of appetite, problematic menstrual
cycles, and loss of libido.

I’m not aware of any link between opiate addiction and headaches (after
the end of withdrawal, that is), and after a brief search on the web, i
couldn’t find anything. But since a number of people on this list have
reported this after being clean for some time, it makes me wonder if
prolonged activation of the opiod system might reduce one’s pain thresh
hold long term.

To the people who have mentioned headaches…is it just headaches? or do
you get other pain as well?

__________________________________________________________________________
Jon Freedlander
userpages.umbc.edu/~jfreed1
Consulting Editor
Journal of Drug Education and Awareness
http://www.novapublishers.com/journals/drugawareness.html
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It’s not a war on drugs; it’s a war on people.

From: Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 11, 2002 at 3:10:45 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 GM40JM98@aol.com wrote:

WE ARE ALL ADDICTED TO ONE SUBSTANCE OR ANOTHER IE;Oxygen,People,Water ect.
Get the picture?

well, that depends on how you define addiction…

the way psychologists define dependency (they don’t use the word
“addiction”) is a compulsive use of a substance despite repeated negative
consequences.

Not TOO many people have repeated negative consequences from oxygen or
water…. people on the other hand is another matter entirely… =)

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From: Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 11, 2002 at 3:08:13 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Alison Senepart wrote:

I know Hep C is involved with  disease of the liver.   What I was asking
about was chronic headaches and their association with any of the problems
with opiate addiction or Hep C.   Someone else wrote a message about getting
headaches and I was interested to know if others had similar problems.
Allison

Oh, sorry about that…that’s what i get for reading my email after sleep
deprivation =P

Yes, headache is a common symtpom of chronic hepatitis. Other symptoms
include flu-like illness, indigestion, irritable bowel syndrome, muscle
and joint pain, night sweats, depression or other mood problems, fatigue,
lack of concentration and confusion, itchy skin, dizziness, vision
problems, problems with urination, loss of appetite, problematic menstrual
cycles, and loss of libido.

I’m not aware of any link between opiate addiction and headaches (after
the end of withdrawal, that is), and after a brief search on the web, i
couldn’t find anything. But since a number of people on this list have
reported this after being clean for some time, it makes me wonder if
prolonged activation of the opiod system might reduce one’s pain thresh
hold long term.

To the people who have mentioned headaches…is it just headaches? or do
you get other pain as well?

__________________________________________________________________________
Jon Freedlander       userpages.umbc.edu/~jfreed1
Consulting Editor
Journal of Drug Education and Awareness
http://www.novapublishers.com/journals/drugawareness.html
–                                                                        –
————————————————————————–
It’s not a war on drugs; it’s a war on people.

From: “Rick Venglarcik” <RickV@hnncsb.org>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Hi Dana
Date: December 11, 2002 at 11:39:50 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Dana,
Can you provide a few references or links re: people meeting Bwiti
whether African or not. I have a great interest in religion and
religious imagery.

_____________________________________
Rick Venglarcik, MA, CSAC
Hampton Roads Clinic
2236 W. Queen St., Suite C
Hampton,  VA  23666

Office:  (757) 827-8430 x144
Fax:  (757) 826-2772
Cell: (757) 270-9839
_____________________________________

From: “D B” <facobly@hotmail.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] Re: To Dana who is DB
Date: December 11, 2002 at 11:36:32 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

DB is the tall guy who carried your box from the conference room to your car.
Thanx for ur answer

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From: Dana Beal <dana@cures-not-wars.org>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Hi Dana
Date: December 11, 2002 at 11:22:21 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hi Dana,

Thx for your visit in Paris, I appreciated a lot what I’ve learned
from you, about Iboga and the brain. I have a question, do you think
Iboga can be legitimately used without a ritual, a religous aspect.

I think it would be improvident of treatment providers not to alert
addicts under their care to the possibility that a number of “psychic
phenomena” can occur during the dream phase of the treatment.

On this point, the initiates in the Bwiti are supposed to meet a
mythical ancestor, the Bwiti, is this vision common to every people
taking Iboga to the point they cross the ultimate border.

People taking Ibogaine outside of Bwiti Chapels tend to meet the
Bwiti whether they are African or not.

or is the Bwiti merely a projection of the mind where other people
would see Christ or Bouddha or whatever…

Does Jesus have Buddha nature?

Ans: Yes, because His claim is to encompass and to supercede all
legitimate religious traditions previous to his life and times. So it
is more appropriate to ask if He was consciously the successor to
Egyptian ancestor worship involving the Book of the Dead and a
possible Pharonic Iboga cult (as well as the Soma cult of Zoroaster
and the Shah of Shahs). At the forum we spoke of pygmies discovered
with a statue of Osiris. The resemblance of the story of the
Crucifixion and Resurrection to the myth of Osiris/Isis/Horus is no
accident.

Jesus IS the Bwiti.

D.B.

I’m trying to remember who D.B. is. I’m a D.B.

From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 11, 2002 at 9:58:20 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Oh yeah, I get bad headaches, constantly.
Peace,
Preston

—– Original Message —–
From: Alison Senepart
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts

I know Hep C is involved with  disease of the liver.   What I was asking
about was chronic headaches and their association with any of the problems
with opiate addiction or Hep C.   Someone else wrote a message about getting
headaches and I was interested to know if others had similar problems.
Allison
—–Original Message—–
From: Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2002 02:09
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts

>On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Alison Senepart wrote:
>
>> a problem associated with it but am not sure.  I also wondered if there
was
>> a connection with Hep C and the liver so any info or comments would be
well
>> received.
>
>
>yes, hepatitis C is a virus that primarily attacks the liver…
>
>
>
>
>__________________________________________________________________________
>Jon Freedlander        userpages.umbc.edu/~jfreed1
>Consulting Editor
>Journal of Drug Education and Awareness
>http://www.novapublishers.com/journals/drugawareness.html
>-                                                                        –
>————————————————————————–
>”We are all prisoners of our minds. This realization is the first step
>on the journey to freedom.”
> — Ram Dass
>
>
>
>

From: “Alison Senepart” <aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] glossy mag for female injectors
Date: December 11, 2002 at 9:28:51 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Personally I would put glossy mags down at the bottom of the priority list
if using drugs of any kind and even if not using and trying to get life
sorted.   Once you figure out how to pay to get through the day and then
food and rent and other basics I can’t imagine glossy magazines being
anywhere near the budget.  Allison
—–Original Message—–
From: Andria Efthimiou-Mordaunt <AndriaEM@drugscope.org.uk>
To: ‘ibogaine@mindvox.com’ <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Date: Thursday, 12 December 2002 02:54
Subject: RE: [ibogaine] glossy mag for female injectors

Dear All

Are we such bizziness women; wonder who is making the money from this mag
out of the suffering of the gal IDUs…

U know Dana?

andria

—–Original Message—–
From: Dana Beal [mailto:dana@cures-not-wars.org]
Sent: 25 November 2002 20:26
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: [ibogaine] glossy mag for female injectors

Pubdate: Tue, 19 Nov 2002
Source: Guardian, The (UK)
Copyright: 2002 Guardian Newspapers Limited
Contact: letters@guardian.co.uk
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/175
Author: Andrew Osborn in Amsterdam

POT SHOTS FIRED AT JUNKIES’ MAGAZINE

Outrage Over ‘Drug Chic’ Women’S Glossy Offering Recipes And Beauty
Tips To Heroin And Cocaine Users

A women’s magazine with a difference will appear in the Netherlands
next month. Its glossy pages are filled with beauty tips, horoscopes,
feature stories about sex and cooking and oodles of health advice –
but Sister Mainline is aimed at female cocaine and heroin addicts, and
its contents have infuriated anti-drugs campaigners across Europe.

Held up as a classic example of “drug chic” publishing, the magazine
is partly funded by the Dutch health ministry. Its controversial
message is not that hard drugs are intrinsically bad, but that they
can be used “sensibly”.

Its print run may be just 1,500, but its impact in an increasingly
conservative political climate is likely to be explosive.

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n2124.a01.html

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From: “D B” <facobly@hotmail.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] Hi Dana
Date: December 11, 2002 at 9:13:44 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hi Dana,
Thx for your visit in Paris, I appreciated a lot what I’ve learned from you, about Iboga and the brain. I have a question, do you think Iboga can be legitimately used without a ritual, a religous aspect. On this point, the initiates in the Bwiti are supposed to meet a mythical ancestor, the Bwiti, is this vision common to every people taking Iboga to the point they cross the ultimate border. or is the Bwiti merely a projection of the mind where other people would see Christ or Bouddha or whatever…
D.B.

MSN Search, le moteur de recherche qui pense comme vous ! Cliquez-ici
From: Andria Efthimiou-Mordaunt <AndriaEM@drugscope.org.uk>
Subject: RE: [ibogaine] glossy mag for female injectors
Date: December 11, 2002 at 8:54:29 AM EST
To: “‘ibogaine@mindvox.com'” <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Dear All

Are we such bizziness women; wonder who is making the money from this mag
out of the suffering of the gal IDUs…

U know Dana?

andria

—–Original Message—–
From: Dana Beal [mailto:dana@cures-not-wars.org]
Sent: 25 November 2002 20:26
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Subject: [ibogaine] glossy mag for female injectors

Pubdate: Tue, 19 Nov 2002
Source: Guardian, The (UK)
Copyright: 2002 Guardian Newspapers Limited
Contact: letters@guardian.co.uk
Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/175
Author: Andrew Osborn in Amsterdam

POT SHOTS FIRED AT JUNKIES’ MAGAZINE

Outrage Over ‘Drug Chic’ Women’S Glossy Offering Recipes And Beauty
Tips To Heroin And Cocaine Users

A women’s magazine with a difference will appear in the Netherlands
next month. Its glossy pages are filled with beauty tips, horoscopes,
feature stories about sex and cooking and oodles of health advice –
but Sister Mainline is aimed at female cocaine and heroin addicts, and
its contents have infuriated anti-drugs campaigners across Europe.

Held up as a classic example of “drug chic” publishing, the magazine
is partly funded by the Dutch health ministry. Its controversial
message is not that hard drugs are intrinsically bad, but that they
can be used “sensibly”.

Its print run may be just 1,500, but its impact in an increasingly
conservative political climate is likely to be explosive.

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n2124.a01.html

——————————

NOTICE: The information in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally
privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the
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From: GM40JM98@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 11, 2002 at 8:39:59 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

WE ARE ALL ADDICTED TO ONE SUBSTANCE OR ANOTHER IE;Oxygen,People,Water ect. Get the picture?
Wyatt in pain in michigan.
From: “Alison Senepart” <aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 11, 2002 at 8:15:52 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I know Hep C is involved with  disease of the liver.   What I was asking
about was chronic headaches and their association with any of the problems
with opiate addiction or Hep C.   Someone else wrote a message about getting
headaches and I was interested to know if others had similar problems.
Allison
—–Original Message—–
From: Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2002 02:09
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Alison Senepart wrote:

a problem associated with it but am not sure.  I also wondered if there
was
a connection with Hep C and the liver so any info or comments would be
well
received.

yes, hepatitis C is a virus that primarily attacks the liver…

__________________________________________________________________________
Jon Freedlander        userpages.umbc.edu/~jfreed1
Consulting Editor
Journal of Drug Education and Awareness
http://www.novapublishers.com/journals/drugawareness.html
–                                                                        –
————————————————————————–
“We are all prisoners of our minds. This realization is the first step
on the journey to freedom.”
— Ram Dass

From: Dana Beal <dana@cures-not-wars.org>
Subject: [ibogaine] glutamate again
Date: December 10, 2002 at 1:31:17 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Pubdate: Mon,  9 Dec 2002
Source: BBC News (UK Web)
Copyright: 2002 BBC
Contact: http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/forum/
Website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/558

Monday, 9 December, 2002, 00:00 GMT

DRUG COULD HELP COCAINE ADDICTS

A drug used to treat patients with cystic fibrosis and heart disease could
also help cocaine addicts to quit their habits.

Researchers in the United States have found that n-acetyl cysteine (NAC)
can help to reduce craving in cocaine users.

The medication eliminates the ‘rewards’ associated with taken the drug,
which keeps addicts wanting more.

Tests on rats have proved so effective that human trials are now being planned.

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina have found that NAC
has an impact on glutamate levels in the brain.

Previous studies have shown that this chemical plays a key role in cocaine
dependence.

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02.n2235.a02.html

——————————

From: Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 10, 2002 at 8:09:08 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Alison Senepart wrote:

a problem associated with it but am not sure.  I also wondered if there was
a connection with Hep C and the liver so any info or comments would be well
received.

yes, hepatitis C is a virus that primarily attacks the liver…

__________________________________________________________________________
Jon Freedlander       userpages.umbc.edu/~jfreed1
Consulting Editor
Journal of Drug Education and Awareness
http://www.novapublishers.com/journals/drugawareness.html
–                                                                        –
————————————————————————–
“We are all prisoners of our minds. This realization is the first step
on the journey to freedom.”
— Ram Dass

From: “Alison Senepart” <aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 10, 2002 at 5:50:10 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I was really interested to read the bit about someone getting bad headaches.
I am really plagued with them and have days where I could just stay in bed
cos it hurts so much,
but am not sure if thats to do with being an
opiate addict or something else.  Only thing is they seem to get worse every
time I fall off the rails and then straighten up.  Would be good to hear
other opinions on that.  PS.  I also have high blood pressure which could be
a problem associated with it but am not sure.  I also wondered if there was
a connection with Hep C and the liver so any info or comments would be well
received.
.
Thanks Allison
—–Original Message—–
From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Date: Tuesday, 10 December 2002 04:00
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts

“I could sure use some advice on how opiate addicts
deal with legitemate pain I get chronic headaches and
can’t find anything very effective for them”

HUmm, there is legit pain and then there is legit
pain, both feel about the same, one is more of a
creation/letting it happen/being nutured than the
other.  I get headaches also, ibuprofen/asprin mixed
with tylenol usually helps enough to turn the volume
down. If I need real pain meds, I have em, I take em,
I have to put up with those nasty side/after effects
(at times).

I DO NOT entertain the enemy – so I don’t “THINK”
about how good IT might be. I do not THINK about,
should I or shouldn’t I in relation to my having a
addiction response – I think of those nasty side
effects as nasty side effects, nothing more, nothing
less – to be respected, understood, acknowledged and
put up with if I decide I have to take something.

I DO NOT sit there and think about IF I should or
shouldn’t take anything, I DON’T think about NOT USING
(geez, may as well just go use!) or think about NOT
abusing pain meds/abusing them. I do not day-dream
about “IT”, do not dwell on it/in it, do not live it.
Mostly I don’t go “there” but I tell you right this
second, talking about it, there must be some chemistry
going on in my head… I’ll live.

If I hurt enough, I take something, more often I don’t
– a lot more often. For the most part I can deal with
any pain, at least for a short period of time.

Pain meds are NOT MY FRIEND, they are NOT to be played
with (well tell that to me once I I have taken a
few…).

I think I made a “deal” with myself a long time ago,
pain meds are just that, for pain and not to be played
with – in practice it works, get some pain meds in me
though and THINGS CHANGE a bit. For the most part it
is if I recognize certain side effects of taking pain
meds as addiction (addict, add drugs and you get
addiction side effects) but don’t act on it. Part of
it for me is also that abusing pain meds are going to
get me no-where, maybe high for a few days on what I
usually take in a year for pain – they are just not
real drugs to me.

Once I have taken something (usually takes more than
one) and I get altered I KNOW, absolutely that the
side effects (such as the thinking, being cranky) is
an effect of the drug and it will pass – it always
does. It is like I am under some sort of spell for a
few hours-days, a spell I do not react to, a whisper
in my ear that I ignore…

While the pain is quite real and legit I can make it
worse or I can make it better. Pain meds are for
occasional use ONLY so I really don’t have a drug
trigger with pain – meaning I don’t “REWARD” myself
most of the time with pain meds when I am in pain.
Most of the time I handle the pain without meds – with
practice I can do it quite well – to a point. It is at
that point, where the pain is rediculous or been in
pain for too long, maybe my back is locked up and I am
trying to unlock it (besides headaches) that I use
whatever it takes and do so with absoulutely no fear
of “my disease” (ha!). I can and do meditate the pain
away, turn it off/down, I rely on ME, not drugs but it
is nice that they are there. I treat and think of them
in the closet as INERT as far as using potential is
concerned.

The less pain meds I use, the more I am able to deal
with pain myself. The less pain meds I use, the more
effective they are. The less pain meds I use, the
calmer/more at peace I am. The MORE pain meds I use,
the less I am able to deal with the pain, the less the
pain meds work and the less at peace I am, the more
some part of me starts wanting them…

Have I ever said “F… IT” and taken more than I
should, sure and paid the price (ain’t nothing
free…). On a scale of 1-10, my “bad” might get to a
1, like I might once every year or so find myself not
as careful as I should have been, maybe take 2 and not
1 (after all I hurt especially bad that day… and I
deserve it). But then there might be 10 or 20 times I
really hurt that I don’t take anything (narcotic).

I also take the least “toxic” drug for whatever.
Codeine usually works on my back but not for
headaches. So, I don’t wind up stuffing myself with
ineffective drugs (and start “seeking”) or using
something more powerful (with more side-effects) than
I need. What is bad for me is to push it too far with
not using pain meds. If I am in too much pain for too
long at some point I start to break down and start
thinking of turning off the pain… not a good thing.
Better to take a pain med safely than to stay in that
space – I would likely start drinking again if I tried
that.

It isn’t about where I want to feel good, it is about
where I want pain and where I don’t want it. Pain meds
work OK if I take them as infrequently as I do, right
now it has been a couple months since I have taken
anything, not that I “count”. Any more than that the
returns diminish and eventually will cause me more
pain – of a different kind.

You also might try smoking something and as I said,
meditation works. Some folks can take pain meds
safely, others cannot and what I once couldn’t do, I
now can, safely. I also do this healing thing with my
hands called Reiki, it works great for pain/healing.
Yoga also helps (mostly with my back) pain, so does
any exercise so long as you don’t irritate something.
Certain herbs/supplements will also help some
conditions, dl-phelylalanine helps for pain and is
great for mood.

Behavior modification helps, so does changing the
pattern. For instance if I am getting a headache from
some kind of lights, I leave rather than sit there
putting up with it and getting myself in more pain
(which makes it easier to take drugs…). I wear
shades, keep away from things/behavior that will
increase pain. I respect what I can and cannot do
(well, I try), I don’t push myself – then in typical
paradox fashion, I do push myself, depends on what I
am pushing – so yes I will get off the computer if it
is causing my headache but I often will “work through”
the pain so long as I am not causing more damage – not
push on the one hand, push on the other.

I don’t know, somewhere in there it all works. Sorry
for the ramble.

Brett

— booker w <swbooker@hotmail.com> wrote:

<HR>
<html><div style=’background-color:’><DIV>
<P>I like your reasoning that perhaps consistently
thinking of myself as an addict is just dwelling in
the past, but I could sure use some advice on how
opiate addicts deal with legitemate&nbsp;pain.&nbsp; I
get chronic headaches and can’t find anything very
effective for them.&nbsp; I’ve tried using a small
amount of codeine since nothing else seems very
effective, but then it takes only a VERY SHORT amount
of time before I am waking up in the morning hoping I
have a headache.&nbsp; </P>
<P>I can’t help but notice for myself that my
addiction, while it may not be ME, it seems to be the
“weakest link” in my personality.&nbsp; It’s like my
default setting to want to be in that opiate state
24hrs a day.&nbsp; I’ve taken ibo 3 times, do the 12
steps,look at other methods, but still I drive by
hospitals thinking how lovely it would be to be laying
up there having a legit reason to get high, and find
myself looking forward to old age when I might have a
legit reason to take opiates daily.</P>
<P>I sure could use some advice on how opiate addicts
do cope with physical pain, and also if anyone has any
experience with buprenorphine, since I’ve been
thinking in that direction as well.&nbsp; Any comments
welcomed….&nbsp;&nbsp; Sandy Watson</P>
<P>&nbsp;</P>
<P>&nbsp;</P>
<P>&gt;Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 12:08:37 -0800 (PST)
</P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;— “M. Simon” <MSIMON@XTA.COM>wrote:
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; There are no addicts. Only people
in pain.
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; What we call addiction may just
be self medication for
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; undiagnosed pain. PTSD etc.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;If the drugs are addictive, does that
really make me an addict? hmmm, now thats
<DIV></DIV>&gt;some food for thought.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Actually, I’ve stopped identifying
myself as “An Addict”.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;First and foremost, I’m a Human. Then
an artist and a lover and a husband and a
<DIV></DIV>&gt;brother and an ibo initiate and the
list goes on… but to constantly identify
<DIV></DIV>&gt;myself as an addict just doesn’t “do
it” for me anymore. Its like a
<DIV></DIV>&gt;self-perptuating trap, a trap of guilt
and shame and fear that is so rampant in
<DIV></DIV>&gt;12 step groups. Not to forget where we
came from, though. But after wallowing
<DIV></DIV>&gt;in the dark bottom, stabbing veins into
submission, selling my soul and
<DIV></DIV>&gt;whittling away all my morals until I
was only a ghost of myself, shooting the
<DIV></DIV>&gt;nastiest mexican tar and then to
surrender to the mighty methadone… finally
<DIV></DIV>&gt;being FREED by ibogaine… where the
fuck was I going with that thought? Oh
<DIV></DIV>&gt;yeah after all that insanity and then
the Freeing catalyst, can I really afford
<DIV></DIV>&gt;to dwell on the past? NOT! -too much to
catch up on and explore… all the
<DIV></DIV>&gt;things that were impossible to even
dream of while Sprung.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Self medication is for damn sure, and
may I say THANK GOODNESS FOR THE DRUGS
<DIV></DIV>&gt;because without them, I would have
surely been lost to a fate far worse…
<DIV></DIV>&gt;probably institutionalization. The
white coats surely would have come to take
<DIV></DIV>&gt;me away.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;-gaMMa
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
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From: “Alison Senepart” <aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Roche joins hepatitis C drug war
Date: December 9, 2002 at 3:52:03 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Thanks Howard, will check out the sites you listed.   Allison
—–Original Message—–
From: HSLotsof@aol.com <HSLotsof@aol.com>
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Date: Monday, 9 December 2002 04:25
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Roche joins hepatitis C drug war

In a message dated 12/8/02 9:52:27 AM, aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz writes:

I keep forgetting where people are writing from.  Where was the Hep C drug
combination approved.  Was it in USA or Britain.    Would appreciate an
answer and any more info you have to give.   Thanks Allison

Allison, the approvals we are writing of are in the us.

Check out   http://www.pegintron.com/

check out the product insert links and the professional links.   Google.com
is a good search engine just punch in hepatitis c for lots of information.

Howard

From: Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] only read if you have info on 2-ct-2 or other tryptamines
Date: December 9, 2002 at 10:47:32 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Nicholas Labus wrote:

what is the current status of 2-ct-2?legally? hasd anyone any exsperience with dpt? I am wondering about other legal tryptamines?

These are both drugs that are not specifically listed under the Controlled
Substances Act, but could be prosecuted under the Federal Analog Act (dpt
is an analog of dmt, which is a controlled substance…2ct2 is an analog
of 2cb…)

the Analog Act states..

SEC 1203. DEFINITION.
Section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802) is
amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

“(32)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term `controlled
substance analogue’ means a substance —
“(i) the chemical structure of which is substantially similar to the
chemical structure of a controlled substance in schedule I or II;
“(ii) which has a stimulant, depressant, or hallucinogenic effect on
the central nervous system that is substantially similar to or greater
than the stimulent, [sic] depressant, or hallucinogenic effect on the
central nervous system of a controlled substance in schedule I or II;
“(iii) with respect to a particular person, which such person
represents or intends to have a stimulant, depressant, or hallucinogenic
effect on the central nervous system that is substantially similar to or
greater than the stimulant, depressant, or hallucinogenic effect on the
central nervous system of a controlled substance in schedule I or II.

“(B) Such term does not include —
“(i) a controlled substance;
“(ii) any substance for which there is an approved new drug
application;
“(iii) with respect to a particular person any substance, if an
exemption is in effect for investigational use, for that person, under
section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 355) to
the extent conduct with respect to such substance is pursuant to such
exemption; or
“(iv) any substance to the extent not intended for human consumption
before such an exemption takes effect with respect to that substance.”.

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From: Nicholas Labus <goosebumpz2002@yahoo.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] only read if you have info on 2-ct-2 or other tryptamines
Date: December 9, 2002 at 10:04:21 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

what is the current status of 2-ct-2?legally? hasd anyone any exsperience with dpt? I am wondering about other legal tryptamines?
“Ethnogarden Botanicals Corp.” <ethnogarden@sympatico.ca> wrote:
It is my understanding it is a selective MOAI inhibitor focusing on the MAOI B. This is far less a risk then a MAOI A inhibitor and food precautions are not as necessary. I have always been of the belief that avoiding food for minimum 4-6 hours prior to be required for proper absorption ect.

Please correct me if I am wrong or misinformed in this information.
—– Original Message —–
From: Ustanova Iboga
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 9:46 AM
Subject: [ibogaine] before & after IBOgaine

Hi all,

does anyone has a good list of food, beverages, medicinations and other
stuff one should avoid before and after IBOgaine ingestion? (IBOgaine being
MAO antagonist…)

Thank you,

Marko

 

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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 9, 2002 at 9:59:57 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

“I could sure use some advice on how opiate addicts
deal with legitemate pain I get chronic headaches and
can’t find anything very effective for them”

HUmm, there is legit pain and then there is legit
pain, both feel about the same, one is more of a
creation/letting it happen/being nutured than the
other.  I get headaches also, ibuprofen/asprin mixed
with tylenol usually helps enough to turn the volume
down. If I need real pain meds, I have em, I take em,
I have to put up with those nasty side/after effects
(at times).

I DO NOT entertain the enemy – so I don’t “THINK”
about how good IT might be. I do not THINK about,
should I or shouldn’t I in relation to my having a
addiction response – I think of those nasty side
effects as nasty side effects, nothing more, nothing
less – to be respected, understood, acknowledged and
put up with if I decide I have to take something.

I DO NOT sit there and think about IF I should or
shouldn’t take anything, I DON’T think about NOT USING
(geez, may as well just go use!) or think about NOT
abusing pain meds/abusing them. I do not day-dream
about “IT”, do not dwell on it/in it, do not live it.
Mostly I don’t go “there” but I tell you right this
second, talking about it, there must be some chemistry
going on in my head… I’ll live.

If I hurt enough, I take something, more often I don’t
– a lot more often. For the most part I can deal with
any pain, at least for a short period of time.

Pain meds are NOT MY FRIEND, they are NOT to be played
with (well tell that to me once I I have taken a
few…).

I think I made a “deal” with myself a long time ago,
pain meds are just that, for pain and not to be played
with – in practice it works, get some pain meds in me
though and THINGS CHANGE a bit. For the most part it
is if I recognize certain side effects of taking pain
meds as addiction (addict, add drugs and you get
addiction side effects) but don’t act on it. Part of
it for me is also that abusing pain meds are going to
get me no-where, maybe high for a few days on what I
usually take in a year for pain – they are just not
real drugs to me.

Once I have taken something (usually takes more than
one) and I get altered I KNOW, absolutely that the
side effects (such as the thinking, being cranky) is
an effect of the drug and it will pass – it always
does. It is like I am under some sort of spell for a
few hours-days, a spell I do not react to, a whisper
in my ear that I ignore…

While the pain is quite real and legit I can make it
worse or I can make it better. Pain meds are for
occasional use ONLY so I really don’t have a drug
trigger with pain – meaning I don’t “REWARD” myself
most of the time with pain meds when I am in pain.
Most of the time I handle the pain without meds – with
practice I can do it quite well – to a point. It is at
that point, where the pain is rediculous or been in
pain for too long, maybe my back is locked up and I am
trying to unlock it (besides headaches) that I use
whatever it takes and do so with absoulutely no fear
of “my disease” (ha!). I can and do meditate the pain
away, turn it off/down, I rely on ME, not drugs but it
is nice that they are there. I treat and think of them
in the closet as INERT as far as using potential is
concerned.

The less pain meds I use, the more I am able to deal
with pain myself. The less pain meds I use, the more
effective they are. The less pain meds I use, the
calmer/more at peace I am. The MORE pain meds I use,
the less I am able to deal with the pain, the less the
pain meds work and the less at peace I am, the more
some part of me starts wanting them…

Have I ever said “F… IT” and taken more than I
should, sure and paid the price (ain’t nothing
free…). On a scale of 1-10, my “bad” might get to a
1, like I might once every year or so find myself not
as careful as I should have been, maybe take 2 and not
1 (after all I hurt especially bad that day… and I
deserve it). But then there might be 10 or 20 times I
really hurt that I don’t take anything (narcotic).

I also take the least “toxic” drug for whatever.
Codeine usually works on my back but not for
headaches. So, I don’t wind up stuffing myself with
ineffective drugs (and start “seeking”) or using
something more powerful (with more side-effects) than
I need. What is bad for me is to push it too far with
not using pain meds. If I am in too much pain for too
long at some point I start to break down and start
thinking of turning off the pain… not a good thing.
Better to take a pain med safely than to stay in that
space – I would likely start drinking again if I tried
that.

It isn’t about where I want to feel good, it is about
where I want pain and where I don’t want it. Pain meds
work OK if I take them as infrequently as I do, right
now it has been a couple months since I have taken
anything, not that I “count”. Any more than that the
returns diminish and eventually will cause me more
pain – of a different kind.

You also might try smoking something and as I said,
meditation works. Some folks can take pain meds
safely, others cannot and what I once couldn’t do, I
now can, safely. I also do this healing thing with my
hands called Reiki, it works great for pain/healing.
Yoga also helps (mostly with my back) pain, so does
any exercise so long as you don’t irritate something.
Certain herbs/supplements will also help some
conditions, dl-phelylalanine helps for pain and is
great for mood.

Behavior modification helps, so does changing the
pattern. For instance if I am getting a headache from
some kind of lights, I leave rather than sit there
putting up with it and getting myself in more pain
(which makes it easier to take drugs…). I wear
shades, keep away from things/behavior that will
increase pain. I respect what I can and cannot do
(well, I try), I don’t push myself – then in typical
paradox fashion, I do push myself, depends on what I
am pushing – so yes I will get off the computer if it
is causing my headache but I often will “work through”
the pain so long as I am not causing more damage – not
push on the one hand, push on the other.

I don’t know, somewhere in there it all works. Sorry
for the ramble.

Brett

— booker w <swbooker@hotmail.com> wrote:

<HR>
<html><div style=’background-color:’><DIV>
<P>I like your reasoning that perhaps consistently
thinking of myself as an addict is just dwelling in
the past, but I could sure use some advice on how
opiate addicts deal with legitemate&nbsp;pain.&nbsp; I
get chronic headaches and can’t find anything very
effective for them.&nbsp; I’ve tried using a small
amount of codeine since nothing else seems very
effective, but then it takes only a VERY SHORT amount
of time before I am waking up in the morning hoping I
have a headache.&nbsp; </P>
<P>I can’t help but notice for myself that my
addiction, while it may not be ME, it seems to be the
“weakest link” in my personality.&nbsp; It’s like my
default setting to want to be in that opiate state
24hrs a day.&nbsp; I’ve taken ibo 3 times, do the 12
steps,look at other methods, but still I drive by
hospitals thinking how lovely it would be to be laying
up there having a legit reason to get high, and find
myself looking forward to old age when I might have a
legit reason to take opiates daily.</P>
<P>I sure could use some advice on how opiate addicts
do cope with physical pain, and also if anyone has any
experience with buprenorphine, since I’ve been
thinking in that direction as well.&nbsp; Any comments
welcomed….&nbsp;&nbsp; Sandy Watson</P>
<P>&nbsp;</P>
<P>&nbsp;</P>
<P>&gt;Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 12:08:37 -0800 (PST)
</P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;— “M. Simon” <MSIMON@XTA.COM>wrote:
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; There are no addicts. Only people
in pain.
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; What we call addiction may just
be self medication for
<DIV></DIV>&gt; &gt; undiagnosed pain. PTSD etc.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;If the drugs are addictive, does that
really make me an addict? hmmm, now thats
<DIV></DIV>&gt;some food for thought.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Actually, I’ve stopped identifying
myself as “An Addict”.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;First and foremost, I’m a Human. Then
an artist and a lover and a husband and a
<DIV></DIV>&gt;brother and an ibo initiate and the
list goes on… but to constantly identify
<DIV></DIV>&gt;myself as an addict just doesn’t “do
it” for me anymore. Its like a
<DIV></DIV>&gt;self-perptuating trap, a trap of guilt
and shame and fear that is so rampant in
<DIV></DIV>&gt;12 step groups. Not to forget where we
came from, though. But after wallowing
<DIV></DIV>&gt;in the dark bottom, stabbing veins into
submission, selling my soul and
<DIV></DIV>&gt;whittling away all my morals until I
was only a ghost of myself, shooting the
<DIV></DIV>&gt;nastiest mexican tar and then to
surrender to the mighty methadone… finally
<DIV></DIV>&gt;being FREED by ibogaine… where the
fuck was I going with that thought? Oh
<DIV></DIV>&gt;yeah after all that insanity and then
the Freeing catalyst, can I really afford
<DIV></DIV>&gt;to dwell on the past? NOT! -too much to
catch up on and explore… all the
<DIV></DIV>&gt;things that were impossible to even
dream of while Sprung.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;Self medication is for damn sure, and
may I say THANK GOODNESS FOR THE DRUGS
<DIV></DIV>&gt;because without them, I would have
surely been lost to a fate far worse…
<DIV></DIV>&gt;probably institutionalization. The
white coats surely would have come to take
<DIV></DIV>&gt;me away.
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
<DIV></DIV>&gt;-gaMMa
<DIV></DIV>&gt;
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From: “Ethnogarden Botanicals Corp.” <ethnogarden@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] before & after IBOgaine
Date: December 9, 2002 at 9:53:18 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

It is my understanding it is a selective MOAI inhibitor focusing on the MAOI B. This is far less a risk then a MAOI A inhibitor and food precautions are not as necessary. I have always been of the belief that avoiding food for minimum 4-6 hours prior to be required for proper absorption ect.

Please correct me if I am wrong or misinformed in this information.
—– Original Message —–
From: Ustanova Iboga
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 9:46 AM
Subject: [ibogaine] before & after IBOgaine

Hi all,

does anyone has a good list of food, beverages, medicinations and other
stuff one should avoid before and after IBOgaine ingestion? (IBOgaine being
MAO antagonist…)

Thank you,

Marko

From: Ustanova Iboga <Iboga@guest.arnes.si>
Subject: [ibogaine] before & after IBOgaine
Date: December 9, 2002 at 9:46:37 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hi all,

does anyone has a good list of food, beverages, medicinations and other stuff one should avoid before and after IBOgaine ingestion? (IBOgaine being MAO antagonist…)

Thank you,

Marko

From: “booker w” <swbooker@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 8, 2002 at 5:19:49 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I like your reasoning that perhaps consistently thinking of myself as an addict is just dwelling in the past, but I could sure use some advice on how opiate addicts deal with legitemate pain.  I get chronic headaches and can’t find anything very effective for them.  I’ve tried using a small amount of codeine since nothing else seems very effective, but then it takes only a VERY SHORT amount of time before I am waking up in the morning hoping I have a headache.
I can’t help but notice for myself that my addiction, while it may not be ME, it seems to be the “weakest link” in my personality.  It’s like my default setting to want to be in that opiate state 24hrs a day.  I’ve taken ibo 3 times, do the 12 steps,look at other methods, but still I drive by hospitals thinking how lovely it would be to be laying up there having a legit reason to get high, and find myself looking forward to old age when I might have a legit reason to take opiates daily.
I sure could use some advice on how opiate addicts do cope with physical pain, and also if anyone has any experience with buprenorphine, since I’ve been thinking in that direction as well.  Any comments welcomed….   Sandy Watson

>Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 12:08:37 -0800 (PST)

>

>— “M. Simon” wrote:

> >

> > There are no addicts. Only people in pain.

> >

> > What we call addiction may just be self medication for

> > undiagnosed pain. PTSD etc.

>

>If the drugs are addictive, does that really make me an addict? hmmm, now thats

>some food for thought.

>

>Actually, I’ve stopped identifying myself as “An Addict”.

>

>First and foremost, I’m a Human. Then an artist and a lover and a husband and a

>brother and an ibo initiate and the list goes on… but to constantly identify

>myself as an addict just doesn’t “do it” for me anymore. Its like a

>self-perptuating trap, a trap of guilt and shame and fear that is so rampant in

>12 step groups. Not to forget where we came from, though. But after wallowing

>in the dark bottom, stabbing veins into submission, selling my soul and

>whittling away all my morals until I was only a ghost of myself, shooting the

>nastiest mexican tar and then to surrender to the mighty methadone… finally

>being FREED by ibogaine… where the fuck was I going with that thought? Oh

>yeah after all that insanity and then the Freeing catalyst, can I really afford

>to dwell on the past? NOT! -too much to catch up on and explore… all the

>things that were impossible to even dream of while Sprung.

>

>Self medication is for damn sure, and may I say THANK GOODNESS FOR THE DRUGS

>because without them, I would have surely been lost to a fate far worse…

>probably institutionalization. The white coats surely would have come to take

>me away.

>

>-gaMMa

>

>__________________________________________________

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>Yahoo! Mail Plus – Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.

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From: Gamma <gammalyte9000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 8, 2002 at 3:08:37 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

— “M. Simon” <msimon@xta.com> wrote:

There are no addicts. Only people in pain.

What we call addiction may just be self medication for
undiagnosed pain. PTSD etc.

If the drugs are addictive, does that really make me an addict? hmmm, now thats
some food for thought.

Actually, I’ve stopped identifying myself as “An Addict”.

First and foremost, I’m a Human. Then an artist and a lover and a husband and a
brother and an ibo initiate and the list goes on… but to constantly identify
myself as an addict just doesn’t “do it” for me anymore. Its like a
self-perptuating trap, a trap of guilt and shame and fear that is so rampant in
12 step groups. Not to forget where we came from, though. But after wallowing
in the dark bottom, stabbing veins into submission, selling my soul and
whittling away all my morals until I was only a ghost of myself, shooting the
nastiest mexican tar and then to surrender to the mighty methadone… finally
being FREED by ibogaine… where the fuck was I going with that thought? Oh
yeah after all that insanity and then the Freeing catalyst, can I really afford
to dwell on the past? NOT! -too much to catch up on and explore… all the
things that were impossible to even dream of while Sprung.

Self medication is for damn sure, and may I say THANK GOODNESS FOR THE DRUGS
because without them, I would have surely been lost to a fate far worse…
probably institutionalization. The white coats surely would have come to take
me away.

-gaMMa

__________________________________________________
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From: HSLotsof@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Roche joins hepatitis C drug war
Date: December 8, 2002 at 10:25:10 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

In a message dated 12/8/02 9:52:27 AM, aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz writes:

I keep forgetting where people are writing from.  Where was the Hep C drug
combination approved.  Was it in USA or Britain.    Would appreciate an
answer and any more info you have to give.   Thanks Allison

Allison, the approvals we are writing of are in the us.

Check out   http://www.pegintron.com/

check out the product insert links and the professional links.   Google.com
is a good search engine just punch in hepatitis c for lots of information.

Howard

From: “Alison Senepart” <aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Roche joins hepatitis C drug war
Date: December 8, 2002 at 9:52:38 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I keep forgetting where people are writing from.  Where was the Hep C drug
combination approved.  Was it in USA or Britain.    Would appreciate an
answer and any more info you have to give.   Thanks Allison
—–Original Message—–
From: preston peet <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
To: drugwar@mindvox.com <drugwar@mindvox.com>
Cc: ibogaine@mindvox.com <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Date: Sunday, 8 December 2002 02:38
Subject: [ibogaine] Roche joins hepatitis C drug war

Hi all,
Some may consider this off topic, but I don’t personally think it is.
Sooooo….

http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base/business-0/10390723557452
0
.xml

Roche joins hepatitis C drug war

Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. is about to begin one of its most important
marketing
battles — thanks to regulatory approval received late Tuesday for a
hepatitis C treatment.

The product includes two components — an injectable medicine called
Pegasys
that was recently approved for use on its own and Copegus, a pill also
known
as ribavirin. However, this combination therapy, as doctors refer to it, is
widely believed to be more effective.

snip-

Peace,
Preston Peet
ptpeet@nyc.rr.com
Editor http://www.drugwar.com
Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
“Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for
enlightenment can easily be mistaken for madness.”
Martin (Asylum 1996-1997)-
quoted by Karl Jesen in “Ketamine: Dreams and Realities”

From: “Alison Senepart” <aa.senepart@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Roche joins hepatitis C drug war
Date: December 8, 2002 at 4:22:28 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Thanks for the latest info.   I don’t actually think talking about Hep C is
off target.  Most users I know all have hep C as do myself and my partner,
and are dealing with it in varying degrees of health etc.   Any info that
helps is good to know and then everyone is more informed and can deal with
the illness on a better level.  No info should be wasted.   It is all
important to different people depending on their needs and wants.   Allison
—–Original Message—–
From: preston peet <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
To: drugwar@mindvox.com <drugwar@mindvox.com>
Cc: ibogaine@mindvox.com <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Date: Sunday, 8 December 2002 02:38
Subject: [ibogaine] Roche joins hepatitis C drug war

Hi all,
Some may consider this off topic, but I don’t personally think it is.
Sooooo….

http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base/business-0/10390723557452
0
.xml

Roche joins hepatitis C drug war

Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. is about to begin one of its most important
marketing
battles — thanks to regulatory approval received late Tuesday for a
hepatitis C treatment.

The product includes two components — an injectable medicine called
Pegasys
that was recently approved for use on its own and Copegus, a pill also
known
as ribavirin. However, this combination therapy, as doctors refer to it, is
widely believed to be more effective.

snip-

Peace,
Preston Peet
ptpeet@nyc.rr.com
Editor http://www.drugwar.com
Editor at Large High Times mag/.com
“Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for
enlightenment can easily be mistaken for madness.”
Martin (Asylum 1996-1997)-
quoted by Karl Jesen in “Ketamine: Dreams and Realities”

From: HSLotsof@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Roche joins hepatitis C drug war
Date: December 7, 2002 at 8:18:52 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

In a message dated 12/7/02 6:54:40 PM, ptpeet@nyc.rr.com writes:

I don’t know. (btw, just for future reference, in the most friendly
fashion I alert you to the fact that my name is Preston. My last name is
Peet.)

Having Hep C, and no insurance, (and a distinct lack of enthusiasm
for getting radiated), I’ve not paid much attention to many of these
treatments.
My doctor told me recently there’s a new one that still uses Interferon,
(sp?) and something else new (I think) but as noted, I’m not too thrilled
at the idea of getting their treatments.

Sorry can’t help you with this one.

Hi Preston,

I must have really been out to lunch on the name issue.  Sorry for that.  As
far as I can understand there is nothing encouraging in the hcv treatment
area coming from the pharmaceutical side.  Side effects are significant and
efficacy is not, particularly if you have type 1 hcv genotype which is the
most common form.  Therapy generally runs for a year for type 1 and six
months for type 2.   You should read the package insert for these medications.

Howard

From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Roche joins hepatitis C drug war
Date: December 7, 2002 at 7:12:44 PM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Don’t drink alcohol. That’s a first step.
Peace,
Preston
—– Original Message —–
From: Nicholas Labus
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Roche joins hepatitis C drug war

Can somone please send me as much info possible I am 23 and have had HCV for 2 years and i don’t have health insurance. And i don'[t have much money! lifes a bitch and then you die! Thats why i got  high cuz you never know when ur gunna go! Just kidding i have a new found respect for life. I don’t want  to die at 45 or however many years this disease gives me. And i know the methadone  i am presently on cannnot be helping
HSLotsof@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 12/7/02 8:38:25 AM, ptpeet@nyc.rr.com writes:

<<

The product includes two components — an injectable medicine called Pegasys

that was recently approved for use on its own and Copegus, a pill also known

as ribavirin. However, this combination therapy, as doctors refer to it, is

widely believed to be more effective. >>

Hey Pete,

How does this differ from Schering’s PEG-INTRONâ„¢/REBETOL® Combination?

Thanks

Howard

 

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From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Roche joins hepatitis C drug war
Date: December 7, 2002 at 6:50:42 PM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hi Howard,
I don’t know. (btw, just for future reference, in the most friendly fashion I alert you to the fact that my name is Preston. My last name is Peet.)
Having Hep C, and no insurance, (and a distinct lack of enthusiasm for getting radiated), I’ve not paid much attention to many of these treatments. My doctor told me recently there’s a new one that still uses Interferon, (sp?) and something else new (I think) but as noted, I’m not too thrilled at the idea of getting their treatments.
Sorry can’t help you with this one.
Peace,
Preston

—– Original Message —–
From: HSLotsof@aol.com
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Roche joins hepatitis C drug war

In a message dated 12/7/02 8:38:25 AM, ptpeet@nyc.rr.com writes:

<<

The product includes two components — an injectable medicine called Pegasys

that was recently approved for use on its own and Copegus, a pill also known

as ribavirin. However, this combination therapy, as doctors refer to it, is

widely believed to be more effective. >>

Hey Pete,

How does this differ from Schering’s PEG-INTRON™/REBETOL® Combination?

Thanks

Howard

From: Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 7, 2002 at 5:42:54 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, preston peet wrote:

If i can’t stop something, despite excessive negative consequences and no
benefits, i’d say i’m an addict…<

Can’t remember there ever being NO benefits. FEW sure, but NONE? For me there were always at least one or two benefits, even with all the negative consequences…except of course for cigerettes…hmmm. Never mind.

Well, as time went on, the number of benefits contunied to decrease. By
the end of my addiction, i wasn’t getting high anymore; it was solely a
matter of avoiding pain. What proves to me how irrational this behaviour
was, is that i went through withdrawal  probably about 6 times. Despite
the fact that i knew (or at least SHOULD have known) that after a few
dfays of actually getting high, i would be right back into the just
avoiding pain bit, i started using again anyway. to me, this is addiction.

From: Nicholas Labus <goosebumpz2002@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Roche joins hepatitis C drug war
Date: December 7, 2002 at 4:39:19 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Can somone please send me as much info possible I am 23 and have had HCV for 2 years and i don’t have health insurance. And i don'[t have much money! lifes a bitch and then you die! Thats why i got  high cuz you never know when ur gunna go! Just kidding i have a new found respect for life. I don’t want  to die at 45 or however many years this disease gives me. And i know the methadone  i am presently on cannnot be helping
HSLotsof@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 12/7/02 8:38:25 AM, ptpeet@nyc.rr.com writes:

<<

The product includes two components — an injectable medicine called Pegasys

that was recently approved for use on its own and Copegus, a pill also known

as ribavirin. However, this combination therapy, as doctors refer to it, is

widely believed to be more effective. >>

Hey Pete,

How does this differ from Schering’s PEG-INTRON™/REBETOL® Combination?

Thanks

Howard

 

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From: HSLotsof@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Roche joins hepatitis C drug war
Date: December 7, 2002 at 12:36:03 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

In a message dated 12/7/02 8:38:25 AM, ptpeet@nyc.rr.com writes:

<<

The product includes two components — an injectable medicine called Pegasys

that was recently approved for use on its own and Copegus, a pill also known

as ribavirin. However, this combination therapy, as doctors refer to it, is

widely believed to be more effective. >>

Hey Pete,

How does this differ from Schering’s PEG-INTRON™/REBETOL® Combination?

Thanks

Howard

From: “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 7, 2002 at 7:41:08 AM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

>If i can’t stop something, despite excessive negative consequences and no
benefits, i’d say i’m an addict…<

Can’t remember there ever being NO benefits. FEW sure, but NONE? For me there were always at least one or two benefits, even with all the negative consequences…except of course for cigerettes…hmmm. Never mind.
Peace,
Preston

—– Original Message —–
From: Jon Freedlander
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, M. Simon wrote:

>
> There are no addicts. Only people in pain.
>
> What we call addiction may just be self medication for
> undiagnosed pain. PTSD etc.

That may be true in some cases, but not all. And sometimes people can
start out self medicating, and become addicted (speaking from personal
experience).

If i can’t stop something, despite excessive negative consequences and no
benefits, i’d say i’m an addict…

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From: Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 7, 2002 at 2:15:24 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, M. Simon wrote:

There are no addicts. Only people in pain.

What we call addiction may just be self medication for
undiagnosed pain. PTSD etc.

That may be true in some cases, but not all. And sometimes people can
start out self medicating, and become addicted (speaking from personal
experience).

If i can’t stop something, despite excessive negative consequences and no
benefits, i’d say i’m an addict…

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From: HSLotsof@aol.com
Subject: [ibogaine] Paris pr/alcohol treatment/st kitts
Date: December 6, 2002 at 9:50:39 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I was quite impressed to receive the following url promoting the paris
ibogaine conference.

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/021205/108/2vpwo.html

Also, an interesting treatment report relating to alcoholism.

www.ibogaine.org/whatsnew.html

If st kitts is really closing, that is going to leave a large hole in the
ibogaine world.

Howard

From: Vector Vector <vector620022002@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] RE:How do I unsuscribe from your site?
Date: December 6, 2002 at 7:40:28 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

If as you said you have a IQ of 204, then you should have no trouble
figuring out how to unsubscribe 😉

I’ve never been addicted to anything and most of what I know about
ibogaine and the people who have done it is from this list. Which is a
little or a lot crazy sometimes. What I don’t understand is if you are
looking for ibogaine then I think everyone or nearly everyone in the
world who supplies it in some way is on this list and posts to it. You
should know where to get it by now and how to use it. What is it that
you’re looking for? 20 places to get it are listed on ibogaine.co.uk
and a lot of info about how to use it is on ibogaine.org. So read that.

What I also don’t understand is if you are in severe pain all the time
and the only way you ever feel normal is when you’re taking high doses
of opiates. Then why do you want to get off them?

.:vector:.

— GM40JM98@aol.com wrote:
I have suscribed to your site approx.1 month ago. I was looking for
;Ibogaine
Links to
Bona fide treatment centers,info. or the mechanisim in which the
substance
can do what after,Billions of dollars,Armies in the
street/Foreign&Domestic,
Deaths too many to count,Devistated families,Fallen Leaders of
State…,on&on&
on. Is claimed to in 48 hours,Transform a Alcoholic/Addict into a
Clean&Sober
Pillar fo Society?
I myself have destroyed 3 marriages,1 Daughter,a career in both the
USN and
General Motors,estranged most of all past family,freinds,co-users
even,spent
millions of dollars on dope and booze,lost half a dozen
houses,wrecked dozens
of cars,been in prison 3 times,jailed numerous times,been in
more”treatment
centers”in the case I told you how many would embarass me and you
would call
me a liar.23 solid years on methadone,taking antabuse for the
alcoholisim&
attending A.A.(which I do not truthfully like),am 42 years old
,started using
at age 7w/ETOH and never looked back.I have been in the construction
trades
my entire life and have very severily incurred major traumas which
the only
treatment was sit down for an hour,drink 12 beers and eat a handful
of Lilly
J72’s/10mg. Dolophine pills&get back to work.Now as I am making the
most
sincere,life or death last gasp attempt for permanent sobriety,the
decades of
abuse I have done to myself physically is keeping me in undescribable

cruel,viscious,un-relenting chronic pain,Peripial
Neuropathy,Fibromylagia,Degenerative Bone/Joint disease,Heppatittis
C…..
and now with my past drug,alcohol,prison&jail history,I cannot find a

physician to take my temperature(even rectally) so I languish in my
close to
suicidal agony,take my little inadequit 80mg. methadone and search
for
some/any source of relief.The last 2 weeks of reasonable 80%
painlessness was
over 3 years ago,in which I found a miracle,an older physician who
was a
compassionate human also,he heard ,from me the same ,or close to,my
war
stories&ddd’s(Drugging,drinking decades)and attempting to recover the
pain of
ignored traumas thru my ddd’s,he finally concocted something I
probably never
will again,every 14 days I would go to his office and he would write
2 rx’s,1
for 10/100mcg/hour Durgesic patches apply 2 every 48 hours&the other
RX
for280 10mg. dolophine Hcl pills,take 10 in am.I almost felt human
for
approx.3 months when the physican with compassion died of
liver,pancreatic,bone,testicular&lynph node metastices/cancers.The
point
maybe only a sufferer of chronic pain can truely know how life
robbingly
tortured you feel and dread another day.
Back to the reason I wish to not recieve any more
:childish,pointless,whining
dubious
baby banter/hole ass kiddie games.If ibogaine does what it has done
to 90% of
your authors of e-mail i have bee n getting 20-30 daily for
approx.1-1.5
months and have found 3-4 with pertinent,well written,informative&
intellegently researched info./links .

I am sorry but I try to call em as I see  em,if you dont mind a
suggestion,find the writers of those 3-4 of1000’s of your sites
e-mails I
found  printworthy or find a good editor in chief to be prudent
enough to not
post what seems like a never ending disfunctional Dr.Seuss&bad LSD
experience
soap opera without the soap.

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From: Randywalker57@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] RE:How do I unsuscribe from your site?
Date: December 6, 2002 at 6:40:42 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

<PRE>First off, let me tell you, I am one of the people that they talk about never
making it. I am the product of child abuse and began using alcohol at 8 yrs.
old. Was very popular in school, good scholar and athlete. Started tripping,
THC, barbiturates early in high school. I was voted most popular kid in my
class, was student council, key club, and the first freshman to letter in
wrestling. I never felt like I fit in anywhere. You know how you here that
someone felt like they fit in with the drug users?  Well, I never felt I fit
in anywhere. I got two cheerleaders pregnant, wrecked my 67 SS Camaro on
Tuinals after being suspended from school,( I hit several teachers’ cars and
several no parking signs and a small tree). Was admitted to a state hospital
after overdosing on Canadian Blues right before the blizzard of 78. By the
way, I was to graduate in 76, but with 30 days left, the pressure of the two
pregnancies were too much to bear. So, I quit, and thus, began to quit life.
Downhill is a term used to describe my decent. Jumping off a cliff is another
phrase I have heard often. I have been to prison 5 times, divorced, and been
on the rehab circuit. Nothing worked. Ibogaine not only detoxed me, but it
made me think a little differently. I remember during the session thinking
about how wrong my whole life was, and that I really didn’t need to live like
I was living.  I was so sorry. Everything before the Ibogaine was about my
pain. My perspective was different. I wept afterwards. It was a very good
cry. One that I have not forgotten. They were not tears for poor me, they
were tears for all I had done to everyone who came in contact with me. You
asked if I thought multiple uses would have cured me. I did do it 2 more
times, but the first was the most intense and eye opening. I was going pretty
strong for about 50 hrs. The hcl was very good. I read post’s about one
thinking that this is just another LSD type high in the guise of therapy. If
one ever took a strong opiate dose, they would realize that this is no
recreational drug. I swore I would never touch it again, until I realized
just how much it had done for me. Since, I have been involved cleaning up
other addicts. Not for profit, but for the feeling one gets, when he sees
someone strung out, look great in 3 days!  Eating, smiling, and talking about
how Iboga really does kick heroins ass!  Am I cured? No. Maybe some get
cured. I sure hope they do. I am happy to be where I am. I am not in active
addiction, and I must tell you, that things I seen and thought about during
my first session, have stayed with me. They have influenced my actions today.
I am not a 12 stepper, but I do go to meetings from time to time. I use
whatever I can. Did I go to any length? I think when someone is ready to meet
Iboga, he is very close to the end of active using. These are just some of my
thoughts. I am not articulate and needing to present myself otherwise. I am a
survivor. Thanks, Howard, Marko. Without people like you, I don’t know where
I would be today. God bless you all!  Randy

From: “CCadden” <elgrekkko@carolina.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] RE:How do I unsuscribe from your site?
Date: December 6, 2002 at 4:49:50 PM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

—– Original Message —–
From: <Randywalker57@aol.com>
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 7:05 AM
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] RE:How do I unsuscribe from your site?

<PRE>Whew, I thought I was the only one that had these thoughts!  If one
is coming
to this site to legitimize Ibogaine, he is not going to be very impressed.
Arguing over cats and the such, is not what I came to hear. Egovox would
be
more appropriate. This is a site filled with egos and intellect, with
marginal people skills. Having said this, there are some very good people
that write and do not get caught up in the trivial bullshit. Before I get
jumped on about the cats thing, I am a vegetarian. I love animals, but I
need
to go to another site if I want to discuss animal issues, etc. There are
many
suffering junkies out here. Ibogaine works. I am proof of that. It is not
a
cure. Much work has to be done after the Ibo. So, if you are still reading
from this site, GM40JM98, you are not alone in your thoughts…Take care,
Randy

What did ibogaine do for you, Randy? Do you think that repeated treatments
of it would ultimately annihilate the addiction? What was going through your
mind while you were on it?

chris

From: “M. Simon” <msimon@xta.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] There are no addicts
Date: December 6, 2002 at 11:00:30 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

There are no addicts. Only people in pain.

What we call addiction may just be self medication for
undiagnosed pain. PTSD etc.

http://www.sierratimes.com/02/11/10/edms111002.htm   Heroin

http://www.sierratimes.com/02/11/11/edms111102.htm   Pot

http://www.sierratimes.com/02/11/22/edms112202.htm  Police & PTSD

http://www.sierratimes.com/02/12/01/simon.htm             Soldiers

M. Simon

(c) M. Simon – All rights reserved.

Permission granted for one time use in a single periodical.
Concurrent publication on the periodical’s www site is also granted.

From: Randywalker57@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] RE:How do I unsuscribe from your site?
Date: December 6, 2002 at 7:05:27 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

<PRE>Whew, I thought I was the only one that had these thoughts!  If one is coming
to this site to legitimize Ibogaine, he is not going to be very impressed.
Arguing over cats and the such, is not what I came to hear. Egovox would be
more appropriate. This is a site filled with egos and intellect, with
marginal people skills. Having said this, there are some very good people
that write and do not get caught up in the trivial bullshit. Before I get
jumped on about the cats thing, I am a vegetarian. I love animals, but I need
to go to another site if I want to discuss animal issues, etc. There are many
suffering junkies out here. Ibogaine works. I am proof of that. It is not a
cure. Much work has to be done after the Ibo. So, if you are still reading
from this site, GM40JM98, you are not alone in your thoughts…Take care,
Randy

From: Ustanova Iboga <Iboga@guest.arnes.si>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibo sf forum
Date: December 5, 2002 at 6:53:07 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hi Patrick,

It’s good to read that all of you enjoyed IboTour ;-))

Marko

At 02:37 5.12.2002, you wrote:

:-))) dana is smiling, mash is laughing so hard she’s
almost out of her chair. priceless moment.

From: Gamma <gammalyte9000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibo sf forum
Date: December 5, 2002 at 4:15:14 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

lifting 5 or 6 not grams but ounces
of ibogaine in a jar in front of the camera and saying
he had to stop talking about ibogaine until he ate it
:-))) dana is smiling, mash is laughing so hard she’s
almost out of her chair. priceless moment.

I would have paid good $$$ to see that live.

Dana, You need an ibo session.

Patrick, I love you, Mahn.

-gamma

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From: “CCadden” <elgrekkko@carolina.rr.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] whitney houston interview
Date: December 5, 2002 at 1:30:51 AM EST
To: <cordless@cc3300.com>, <beadflicker@yahoo.com>, <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

all right, this was a great interview. she fessed up to everything and she was proud of it. she wanted to party and have fun. so she did what she wanted to do. cocaine, marijuana, alcohol. that’s what she wanted to do, so she did it, and when she was asked if this made her an addict, she said what i’d like to hear a lot more people have the guts to admit, when they’re talking about something human tribes have been doing since humanity has been on this earth—-paraphrasing, “I don’t have any devils that plague me. I’m the one who chooses to do these things. Drugs aren’t the problem, if there is a problem. I’m the problem, in any situation it all boils down to me.”  She was also very spiritualized, which is a topic for another discussion list. Some of the people I send this to maybe into spiritualization, though, so  I’ll just say that anyone who has become spiritualized is unbreakable and she has certainly let that Spirit consume her at this point in her life. You can go to abcnews.com and read it, if you’re interested, but it would never beat seeing it. She had that whole enlivened appearance that spirit gives you, which looks insane to most deadened people out there, who live their lives in clueless sadness. Random things came blurting out of her mouth, smiles when you can’t tell why she’s happy, impossible to read, impossible to understand. It was this whole, “I’ve done drugs and I’ll probably do more, and I’m fine with it–attitude,” that I appreciated. She had the guts to see what I wish more had the guts to see—that there are no vices, no Satan, that humans have to battle. All problems are human problems, it is up to the human to solve them, and she took full responsibility for it all. There is no such thing as overeating being a disease, there is no terrible drug out there, there is no war against some evil empire—there is only the human and what the human does, or doesn’t. For my friends who’ve wondered why I’m interested in her lately: I believe I’m interested basically because seeing someone whom I used to regard as a silly pop princess actually go thru some shit makes her rather authentic in my eyes. It makes me like her better. I like people who can twist my opinions around like that. Thru whatever she’s gone thru, she’s found the spirit—and she doesn’t gutlessly blame drugs, the media, anything for her downfalls.

Oh, yeah, they were talking about, “Well, Whitney, do you need some kind of intervention, counseling, 12-step kind of thing.”  A lot of people in some of my lists would would appreciate her response. paraphrasing,

“No, 12-step programs are stupid to me. To hear a bunch of people I don’t know tell me how they did whatever is meaningless. All I need is the people around me who I love, and I need myself, and I can conquer anything.”

She pretty much stripped away that whole victim mentality I can’t stand to see going on, with these issues. Her mom had tried to get an intervention done for her, and she threatened to pack her bags and hide out in Europe unless those 12-step fools got the hell out of her face immediately.
From: GM40JM98@aol.com
Subject: [ibogaine] RE:How do I unsuscribe from your site?
Date: December 4, 2002 at 10:14:58 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I have suscribed to your site approx.1 month ago. I was looking for ;Ibogaine Links to
Bona fide treatment centers,info. or the mechanisim in which the substance can do what after,Billions of dollars,Armies in the street/Foreign&Domestic,  Deaths too many to count,Devistated families,Fallen Leaders of State…,on&on&on. Is claimed to in 48 hours,Transform a Alcoholic/Addict into a Clean&Sober Pillar fo Society?
I myself have destroyed 3 marriages,1 Daughter,a career in both the USN and General Motors,estranged most of all past family,freinds,co-users even,spent millions of dollars on dope and booze,lost half a dozen houses,wrecked dozens of cars,been in prison 3 times,jailed numerous times,been in more”treatment centers”in the case I told you how many would embarass me and you would call me a liar.23 solid years on methadone,taking antabuse for the alcoholisim&attending A.A.(which I do not truthfully like),am 42 years old ,started using at age 7w/ETOH and never looked back.I have been in the construction trades my entire life and have very severily incurred major traumas which the only treatment was sit down for an hour,drink 12 beers and eat a handful of Lilly J72’s/10mg. Dolophine pills&get back to work.Now as I am making the most sincere,life or death last gasp attempt for permanent sobriety,the decades of abuse I have done to myself physically is keeping me in undescribable cruel,viscious,un-relenting chronic pain,Peripial Neuropathy,Fibromylagia,Degenerative Bone/Joint disease,Heppatittis C…..
and now with my past drug,alcohol,prison&jail history,I cannot find a physician to take my temperature(even rectally) so I languish in my close to suicidal agony,take my little inadequit 80mg. methadone and search for some/any source of relief.The last 2 weeks of reasonable 80% painlessness was over 3 years ago,in which I found a miracle,an older physician who was a compassionate human also,he heard ,from me the same ,or close to,my war stories&ddd’s(Drugging,drinking decades)and attempting to recover the pain of ignored traumas thru my ddd’s,he finally concocted something I probably never will again,every 14 days I would go to his office and he would write 2 rx’s,1 for 10/100mcg/hour Durgesic patches apply 2 every 48 hours&the other RX for280 10mg. dolophine Hcl pills,take 10 in am.I almost felt human for approx.3 months when the physican with compassion died of liver,pancreatic,bone,testicular&lynph node metastices/cancers.The point maybe only a sufferer of chronic pain can truely know how life robbingly tortured you feel and dread another day.
Back to the reason I wish to not recieve any more :childish,pointless,whining dubious
baby banter/hole ass kiddie games.If ibogaine does what it has done to 90% of your authors of e-mail i have bee n getting 20-30 daily for approx.1-1.5 months and have found 3-4 with pertinent,well written,informative&intellegently researched info./links .

I am sorry but I try to call em as I see  em,if you dont mind a suggestion,find the writers of those 3-4 of1000’s of your sites e-mails I found  printworthy or find a good editor in chief to be prudent enough to not post what seems like a never ending disfunctional Dr.Seuss&bad LSD experience soap opera without the soap.
From: Wake n Bake <wnbake@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] ibo sf forum
Date: December 4, 2002 at 8:37:15 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

maybe you need to pull your head oout of your ass like
most ibogaine elitists and wake and figure out who
finances most of your movement. who did ed rosenthal
sit next to most of the meeting? derrrrrrr. good talk,
kodak moment is patrick taking the mic away from dana
when he started to talk about their sacrament of
ibogaine church, lifting 5 or 6 not grams but ounces
of ibogaine in a jar in front of the camera and saying
he had to stop talking about ibogaine until he ate it
:-))) dana is smiling, mash is laughing so hard she’s
almost out of her chair. priceless moment. you’re
holding a 30 to life prison term in your hand,
schedule 1 in the us or did you forget patrick? :-)))

WnB

— crownofthorns@hushmail.com wrote:

How do I unsubscribe my old email from this list? I
switched accounts
because the email system in the process of being
“upgraded” has
falled apart and I can’t sign into it to sign my
account off this list. I am
guessing it will just kill it after the mail stops
working for a while?

I’m in the middle of my vacation and back to Palo
Alto again. I guess the
ibogaine tour is still wherever it is at. I dropped
in on the morning,
left and caught up to almost the very ending. Not
sure what to make of it
all except I think SF is a different universe and
everyone was pulled into
it.

What I’d say to whoever organised it is it was not
good timing since many
where on vacation with family. I’d also say it would
be a good idea to
open the doors. There was nothing posted about it
outside and out of 20 or
25 doors leading inside, only one worked. Nobody
asked me for any money.

Still don’t know what to make of it, the turn out
was very small and those
who did turn up were not expected by me at least.
Without outing anyone on
this list it was weird to sit next to some who
showed up. Patrick I guess
dragged John Gilmore in there which was even
weirder, Mr. I’m a
billionaire from Sun and like to sue John Ashcroft
as a hobby was sitting
there when I came in and still in there when I left,
so he was there
nearly 12 hours.

He is real interested or real bored, I could not
last after a few hours.

First time I’ve seen Patrick live, bro talks exactly
like he writes, or
writes like he talks. Excellent delivery. Very nice
🙂 I would ask why
you spent 20 minutes talking about the computer
underground and the EFF,
except since you dragged Gilmore in there for some
reason, I don’t need to
ask why you did that 🙂 Winding up with a treatment
pimp, anti-12 step
rant and a anti-drug war rant.

Mash is also great, nice delivery. For the first
time it all made sense to
me 🙂 She and Patrick are on the same page. A pro
entheogens, pro LSD and
psylicibyn talk ending with she’s sick of it and
shutting down St. Kitts and winding
up with another anti drug war rant.

I missed most of the rest, caught Nelson and part of
Ed Rosenthal. I don’t
understand why half the speakers are there talking
about their 6 figure
pot busts, except I don’t need to ask anymore then
why patrick is talking
about the computer underground. I can guess who paid
to fly everyone
around 😉

Patrick and Mash were great as far as info goes,
Dana Beal was on target
so whoever makes fun of him, there wasn’t any PKD
there, good talk. The
acupuncture talk was good, most of the rest put me
to sleep and made me
question why there need to be so many speakers
talking forever about
cannabis at a ibogaine conference. No disrespect to
anyone, but nothing
any of them had to say had anything to do with the
topic. Except if they
paid for all this then I guess they can do what they
want.

Everyone of you is crazy and interesting. If you
wanted to raise awareness
of ibogaine to anyone who didn’t know about it, then
you failed terribly.
It was nearly impossible to even get into the
building. If you were
talking to the cameras that taped all this, you have
great success. If as
I now think almost all of this was for the benefit
of John gilmore,
mission accomplished bro, he was there and stayed
put. Which is more then
I did. I never even found anyone who wanted to take
$45 from me.

Peace out and organise next time,
Curtis

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From: crownofthorns@hushmail.com
Subject: [ibogaine] ibo sf forum
Date: December 4, 2002 at 7:50:05 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

How do I unsubscribe my old email from this list? I switched accounts
because the email system in the process of being “upgraded” has
falled apart and I can’t sign into it to sign my account off this list. I am
guessing it will just kill it after the mail stops working for a while?

I’m in the middle of my vacation and back to Palo Alto again. I guess the
ibogaine tour is still wherever it is at. I dropped in on the morning,
left and caught up to almost the very ending. Not sure what to make of it
all except I think SF is a different universe and everyone was pulled into
it.

What I’d say to whoever organised it is it was not good timing since many
where on vacation with family. I’d also say it would be a good idea to
open the doors. There was nothing posted about it outside and out of 20 or
25 doors leading inside, only one worked. Nobody asked me for any money.

Still don’t know what to make of it, the turn out was very small and those
who did turn up were not expected by me at least. Without outing anyone on
this list it was weird to sit next to some who showed up. Patrick I guess
dragged John Gilmore in there which was even weirder, Mr. I’m a
billionaire from Sun and like to sue John Ashcroft as a hobby was sitting
there when I came in and still in there when I left, so he was there
nearly 12 hours.

He is real interested or real bored, I could not last after a few hours.

First time I’ve seen Patrick live, bro talks exactly like he writes, or
writes like he talks. Excellent delivery. Very nice 🙂 I would ask why
you spent 20 minutes talking about the computer underground and the EFF,
except since you dragged Gilmore in there for some reason, I don’t need to
ask why you did that 🙂 Winding up with a treatment pimp, anti-12 step
rant and a anti-drug war rant.

Mash is also great, nice delivery. For the first time it all made sense to
me 🙂 She and Patrick are on the same page. A pro entheogens, pro LSD and
psylicibyn talk ending with she’s sick of it and shutting down St. Kitts and winding
up with another anti drug war rant.

I missed most of the rest, caught Nelson and part of Ed Rosenthal. I don’t
understand why half the speakers are there talking about their 6 figure
pot busts, except I don’t need to ask anymore then why patrick is talking
about the computer underground. I can guess who paid to fly everyone
around 😉

Patrick and Mash were great as far as info goes, Dana Beal was on target
so whoever makes fun of him, there wasn’t any PKD there, good talk. The
acupuncture talk was good, most of the rest put me to sleep and made me
question why there need to be so many speakers talking forever about
cannabis at a ibogaine conference. No disrespect to anyone, but nothing
any of them had to say had anything to do with the topic. Except if they
paid for all this then I guess they can do what they want.

Everyone of you is crazy and interesting. If you wanted to raise awareness
of ibogaine to anyone who didn’t know about it, then you failed terribly.
It was nearly impossible to even get into the building. If you were
talking to the cameras that taped all this, you have great success. If as
I now think almost all of this was for the benefit of John gilmore,
mission accomplished bro, he was there and stayed put. Which is more then
I did. I never even found anyone who wanted to take $45 from me.

Peace out and organise next time,
Curtis

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From: Dana Beal <dana@cures-not-wars.org>
Subject: [ibogaine] Attention VALIS freaks: the lost Gnostic sacrament is found!
Date: December 4, 2002 at 3:03:41 PM EST
To: philipkdick@yahoogroups.com
Cc: dansmith@clark.net, lensman@stardrive.org, hward@wineshopper.com, Mark@k-dunn.freeserve.co.uk, IMDJam@cs.com, gbekkum@mediaone.net, Gary@osborn-day.freeserve.co.uk, gschwart@u.arizona.edu, e-merrill2@ti.com, “Bob Ezergailis” <morpheal@bserv.com>, “cynthia ford” <maruta@wco.com>, “G. G. Ford” <swimp@shaw.ca>, <brumac@compuserve.com>, <yokatta@oxy.edu>, <kklingon@cwcom.net>, <cyrano@aqua.ocn.ne.jp>, “Adrian” <afme@ihug.co.nz>, dewatson@sunflower.com, CloudRider@aol.com, JagdishM@aol.com, phylegyas@hotmail.com, schwann@webtrance.co.za, ibogalab@hotmail.com, zentarot@hotmail.com, Paul DeRienzo <pdr@echonyc.com>, Stews@radiks.net, foozleman@worldnet.att.net, bmasel@tds.net, heff01@email.msn.com, kingfelix@mediaone.net, PTPEET@cs.com, luxefair@bellsouth.net, cardboard_dada@yahoo.com, prophets@maui.net, m.pilkington@virgin.net, PCLARK@JJHILL.ORG, delaneyw@shasta.com, Edward Jahn <ejahn@barnard.edu>, derlock@mailexcite.com, “Andre Welling” <andre.welling@db.com>, Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen@mindspring.com>, “MUTANEX Command HAWAI’I” <mutanex@aloha.net>, miriamwhite420@hotmail.com, ibogaine@mindvox.com, Nick Sandberg <nick.sandberg@virgin.net>, George Clayton Johnson <hempjack@earthlink.net>, axiom@greatmystery.org, dancegroove@nyc.rr.com, “warcry@indymedia.org” <warcrycinema@yahoo.com>, “Jay Statzer” <jstatzer@qtm.net>, “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

The Paris Ibogaine Forum set for Friday, Dec. 6 is NOT cancelled, despite the fact that neither Deborah Mash or John Pablo was able to make it. (They are rescheduled for February or March in Paris or Bologna.)

The San Francisco forum, though small (about 35 attendees) was EXCELLENT content-wise, and resulted in a move to get the the Board of Supervisors to back Ibogaine.

The excursion to Seattle turned up a groups of doctors interested in documenting and publishing academically on the work being done in Vancouver by Marc Emery.

In Paris I will be reachable c/o Farid at 33-142-515-085 or 33-614-815-679. I will also have several meetings with drug reformers re the Global March for Cannabis Liberation and the UNGASS protests in Vienna in April.

Hope to see you there.

Dana/cnw

Summarised agenda of the Iboga(ine) International Conference held in Paris, decemeber 6th

9:00 Introduction GŽrard Leblond : Chairman of Ligne Blanche
9:30 Laurent Sazy et Mallendi
11:30 – 12:30 h : Discussion
12:30h – 13h45 PAUSE Repas
13:45 Introduction Docteur Bertrand Lebeau
14:00 Dana Beal
15:00 : GŽrard Sestier (sous rŽserve) + a french patient
15:30 Documentary film
17:00 Conclusion
17:30 Fin de la premire confŽrence internationale, ˆ Paris.
ALL in french now…
Conference Internationale sur l’Iboga(•ne) ˆ Paris
Alternatives pour le traitement des conduites addictives
Vendredi 6 dŽcembre 2002
Ë l’Espace ABC (01 40 37 49 28)
3, rue de la Chapelle
75018 PARIS (M¡ Max Dormoy)

From: Dana Beal <dana@cures-not-wars.org>
Subject: [ibogaine] Special Bulletin: Paris Ibogaine Forum is ON!
Date: December 4, 2002 at 12:27:57 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Cc: dansmith@clark.net, lensman@stardrive.org, hward@wineshopper.com, DDanforbes@aol.com, daniel@breakingopenthehead.com, Mark@k-dunn.freeserve.co.uk, IMDJam@cs.com, gbekkum@mediaone.net, Gary@osborn-day.freeserve.co.uk, gschwart@u.arizona.edu, e-merrill2@ti.com, “Bob Ezergailis” <morpheal@bserv.com>, “cynthia ford” <maruta@wco.com>, “G. G. Ford” <swimp@shaw.ca>, <brumac@compuserve.com>, <yokatta@oxy.edu>, <kklingon@cwcom.net>, <cyrano@aqua.ocn.ne.jp>, “Adrian” <afme@ihug.co.nz>, dewatson@sunflower.com, CloudRider@aol.com, JagdishM@aol.com, phylegyas@hotmail.com, schwann@webtrance.co.za, ibogalab@hotmail.com, zentarot@hotmail.com, Paul DeRienzo <pdr@echonyc.com>, Stews@radiks.net, foozleman@worldnet.att.net, bmasel@tds.net, heff01@email.msn.com, kingfelix@mediaone.net, luxefair@bellsouth.net, cardboard_dada@yahoo.com, prophets@maui.net, m.pilkington@virgin.net, PCLARK@JJHILL.ORG, delaneyw@shasta.com, Edward Jahn <ejahn@barnard.edu>, derlock@mailexcite.com, “Andre Welling” <andre.welling@db.com>, Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen@mindspring.com>, “MUTANEX Command HAWAI’I” <mutanex@aloha.net>, miriamwhite420@hotmail.com, ibogaine@mindvox.com, Nick Sandberg <nick.sandberg@virgin.net>, George Clayton Johnson <hempjack@earthlink.net>, axiom@greatmystery.org, dancegroove@nyc.rr.com, “warcry@indymedia.org” <warcrycinema@yahoo.com>, “Jay Statzer” <jstatzer@qtm.net>, philipkdick@yahoogroups.com, “preston peet” <ptpeet@nyc.rr.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

The Paris Ibogaine Forum set for Friday, Dec. 6 is NOT cancelled, despite the fact that neither Deborah Mash or John Pablo was able to make it. (They are rescheduled for February or March in Paris or Bologna.)

The San Francisco forum, though small (about 35 attendees) was EXCELLENT content-wise, and resulted in a move to get the the Board of Supervisors to back Ibogaine.

The excursion to Seattle turned up a groups of doctors interested in documenting and publishing academically on the work being done in Vancouver by Marc Emery.

In Paris I will be reachable c/o Farid at 33-142-515-085 or 33-614-815-679. I will also have several meetings with drug reformers re the Global March for Cannabis Liberation and the UNGASS protests in Vienna in April.

Hope to see you there.

Dana/cnw

Summarised agenda of the Iboga(ine) International Conference held in Paris, decemeber 6th

9:00 Introduction GŽrard Leblond : Chairman of Ligne Blanche
9:30 Laurent Sazy et Mallendi
11:30 – 12:30 h : Discussion
12:30h – 13h45 PAUSE Repas
13:45 Introduction Docteur Bertrand Lebeau
14:00 Dana Beal
15:00 : GŽrard Sestier (sous rŽserve) + a french patient
15:30 Documentary film
17:00 Conclusion
17:30 Fin de la premire confŽrence internationale, ˆ Paris.
ALL in french now…
Conference Internationale sur l’Iboga(•ne) ˆ Paris
Alternatives pour le traitement des conduites addictives
Vendredi 6 dŽcembre 2002
Ë l’Espace ABC (01 40 37 49 28)
3, rue de la Chapelle
75018 PARIS (M¡ Max Dormoy)

From: Gamma <gammalyte9000@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] Malleus
Date: December 3, 2002 at 5:46:39 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

I hath suffereth the bylaws set forth. I am consumed by the devil thou so
truely mentioned and am plagued by thy mysterious dis-ease to no end. It is
eternal damnation and scorn by society at large that I remain, truely, yours.

the dope-infested/heathen/devil-worshipping vessle of filth,
Gammalyte

— Rick Venglarcik <RickV@hnncsb.org> wrote:
Malleus Maleficarum

By the impartation of divine omnipotence thru His holy spirit, the
Malleus Maleficarum is herewith set forth in order that thou may knowest
how to recognize the godless and hellbound hedonist which screweth
around with his neuro receptors, and so-as and forthwith, to be informed
how such damned souls are to be treated, so as to eliminate the
possibility of them ever getting ahead in this life.

Mal. Mal. 3:16
“Thou shalt not suffer an addict to live, or to prosper for that
matter, for they are truly the most reprehensible scum of the earth.”

A.  Being Part I, an exposition on exactly how such drug-addicted
heathen scum should be treated for the salvation and damnation of soul
and body, body and soul.

I.  Thou shall call his addiction a disease, but insisteth that his
worthless ass be thrown into periods of incarceration with yon rapists
and murderers, for he is one with their kind.  In fact, thou shall
punish him more severely, for his transgressions against the most high
represent a denial of the goodness of His divine creation and a
rejection of his omniscient benevolence. Let the worthless bastards
suffer.

II. If he remaineth unconvinced that he is an addict, despite thy
pleadings and justly deserved brow-beatings, then he liveth in denial.
His denial shall be the evidence against him that he is in fact an
addict and an unregenerate demon-possessed pawn of the worst kind.  Were
he not, after all, an addict of drugs, he would surely admit that he
was.   Since he denieth his transgressions, he is clearly guilty of
them, and is recognized by the futility and illogic of his drug-addled
mind, as, clearly, any rational man  would admit his consorting with the
devil to escapeth the brow-beatings. Thereby, if and when he can finally
admitteth to the truth, it is then that you shall know his demons have
fled and he can, at last, recognize his previous blindness.

III. If he is arrested for felony drug possession, thou shall taketh
away his privilege to drive, but upon his release from prison, thou
shall require him to find work, or he will be found in violation of his
parole.

IV. Whilst the evil doer is on probation, he shall be remanded for drug
treatment, which he must pay for out of pocket, despite having no
job…but this is okay, because he is supposed to find one, despite not
being able to drive, and not having money for bus fare, much less a few
bucks with which to obtain nourishment. However, vex yourself not, for
HE is the lowly scum that brought himself to this depraved condition. If
he attendeth not, or if he payeth not, he shall be found “out of
compliance” and remanded once again for incarceration.

V.  You shall deny him access to public housing, because he has
violated eternally the sanctity of our drug laws. He needeth not a
decent bed in which to sleep; this is what the shelters are for. When he
finally sees the light, he shall strive for a domicile in the suburbs,
or choose the sounds and terrors of the ghetto from whence he crawled.

VI. You shall deny him also federal and state funding to better himself
thru education, and thus denieth him even the possibility of legitimate
financial prosperity.

VII. You shall discriminate against him in all of your hiring
practices, as opposed to giving him a chance to possibly change. Because
he has a criminal record of the most heinous sort, it is clear that he
will robbeth you blind by knocking you over the head, bust open the
register, and then murder you in order to getteth away, right after he
has raped thy wife and children.

VIII. You shall take away his right to vote and deny him his political
voice with which he could challenge the drug laws which we have put in
place. T’would be whimsy and foolishness to allow him the power of the
ballot box.  Take heed, however, that he may, indeed, runneth for
office, for this means that he has truly become one with us and would
thenceforth do no wrong.

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From: Brett Calabrese <bcalabrese@yahoo.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] Ibogaine drug international drug laws.
Date: December 3, 2002 at 2:17:17 PM EST
To: ibogaine@ibogaine.org, ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Well, it ain’t everything but it is something.

There are some UN searches for international drug laws
that can be done but are obviously INCOMPLETE.

http://www.undcp.org/odccp/legal_library/search_legal_library.html?AA-application=narco4&AA-area-ident=&AA-lang=EN&AA-form-logic=AND&cnycode-M=S&cnycode=&cnycode-S=T&lang-M=S&lang=&lang-S=T&nomen_part-M=S&nomen_part1=&nomen_part2=&nomen_part-S=T&keyword-M=W&keyword-LT=T&keyword=&keyword-RT=T&text-M=W&text-LT=T&text=ibogaine&text-RT=T&date_from-M=S&date_from=&date_from-S=T&date_to-M=S&date_to=&date_to-S=T&paragraph_from-M=S&paragraph_from=&paragraph_from-S=T&paragraph_to-M=S&paragraph_to=&paragraph_to-S=T

That is the link for ibogaine… Hummm, better yet,
try this;

http://www.undcp.org/odccp/legal_library/search_legal_library.html

And plug in “IBOGAINE” or “iboga” in the FULL TEXT
field, “IBOGA” gives better response. It will require
some more digging – eg Ireland turns up on a search
for “IBOGAINE” but I cannot find the text “IBOGAINE”
in the result – others it is pretty clear ibogaine is
illegal (Argentina for example) but missing are
countries such as the USA where ibogaine is illegal
and import restrictions for ibogaine/iboga in
Australia, I believe Italy has some
restriction/control for ibogaine HCL but didn’t see it
come up either.

Brett

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From: “Rick Venglarcik” <RickV@hnncsb.org>
Subject: [ibogaine] Malleus
Date: December 2, 2002 at 2:02:40 PM EST
To: <ibogaine@mindvox.com>
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Malleus Maleficarum

By the impartation of divine omnipotence thru His holy spirit, the
Malleus Maleficarum is herewith set forth in order that thou may knowest
how to recognize the godless and hellbound hedonist which screweth
around with his neuro receptors, and so-as and forthwith, to be informed
how such damned souls are to be treated, so as to eliminate the
possibility of them ever getting ahead in this life.

Mal. Mal. 3:16
“Thou shalt not suffer an addict to live, or to prosper for that
matter, for they are truly the most reprehensible scum of the earth.”

A.  Being Part I, an exposition on exactly how such drug-addicted
heathen scum should be treated for the salvation and damnation of soul
and body, body and soul.

I.  Thou shall call his addiction a disease, but insisteth that his
worthless ass be thrown into periods of incarceration with yon rapists
and murderers, for he is one with their kind.  In fact, thou shall
punish him more severely, for his transgressions against the most high
represent a denial of the goodness of His divine creation and a
rejection of his omniscient benevolence. Let the worthless bastards
suffer.

II. If he remaineth unconvinced that he is an addict, despite thy
pleadings and justly deserved brow-beatings, then he liveth in denial.
His denial shall be the evidence against him that he is in fact an
addict and an unregenerate demon-possessed pawn of the worst kind.  Were
he not, after all, an addict of drugs, he would surely admit that he
was.   Since he denieth his transgressions, he is clearly guilty of
them, and is recognized by the futility and illogic of his drug-addled
mind, as, clearly, any rational man  would admit his consorting with the
devil to escapeth the brow-beatings. Thereby, if and when he can finally
admitteth to the truth, it is then that you shall know his demons have
fled and he can, at last, recognize his previous blindness.

III. If he is arrested for felony drug possession, thou shall taketh
away his privilege to drive, but upon his release from prison, thou
shall require him to find work, or he will be found in violation of his
parole.

IV. Whilst the evil doer is on probation, he shall be remanded for drug
treatment, which he must pay for out of pocket, despite having no
job…but this is okay, because he is supposed to find one, despite not
being able to drive, and not having money for bus fare, much less a few
bucks with which to obtain nourishment. However, vex yourself not, for
HE is the lowly scum that brought himself to this depraved condition. If
he attendeth not, or if he payeth not, he shall be found “out of
compliance” and remanded once again for incarceration.

V.  You shall deny him access to public housing, because he has
violated eternally the sanctity of our drug laws. He needeth not a
decent bed in which to sleep; this is what the shelters are for. When he
finally sees the light, he shall strive for a domicile in the suburbs,
or choose the sounds and terrors of the ghetto from whence he crawled.

VI. You shall deny him also federal and state funding to better himself
thru education, and thus denieth him even the possibility of legitimate
financial prosperity.

VII. You shall discriminate against him in all of your hiring
practices, as opposed to giving him a chance to possibly change. Because
he has a criminal record of the most heinous sort, it is clear that he
will robbeth you blind by knocking you over the head, bust open the
register, and then murder you in order to getteth away, right after he
has raped thy wife and children.

VIII. You shall take away his right to vote and deny him his political
voice with which he could challenge the drug laws which we have put in
place. T’would be whimsy and foolishness to allow him the power of the
ballot box.  Take heed, however, that he may, indeed, runneth for
office, for this means that he has truly become one with us and would
thenceforth do no wrong.

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Rick Venglarcik, MA, CSAC
Hampton Roads Clinic
2236 W. Queen St., Suite C
Hampton,  VA  23666

Office:  (757) 827-8430 x144
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From: Jon Freedlander <jfreed1@umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] foo
Date: December 2, 2002 at 10:16:03 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Patrick K. Kroupa wrote:

| Drugs are for losers.

Oh shaddup, go smoke some crack, and jack off to your Richard Stallman and
Linus Torvalds photo collection.

Oh, that Stallman; what a sexy beast!

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From: GM40JM98@aol.com
Subject: Re: [ibogaine] DAMMADD
Date: December 2, 2002 at 7:35:57 AM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

All I want from DAMMADD or whoever they are is their unsuscribe link address.
From: “Randy Hencken” <randyhencken@hotmail.com>
Subject: [ibogaine] DAMMADD
Date: December 1, 2002 at 1:05:15 PM EST
To: ibogaine@mindvox.com
Reply-To: ibogaine@mindvox.com

Hi All,

We (the Ibogaine Association) recieved the following email from DAMMADD. Like almost everyone here, I strongly disagree to thier approach to the drug problem.  So I am asking for those articulate writers out there to collaborate with me an intelligent and informative response.

Thanks,
Randy Hencken

The Email:
Dear Health Care Provider :

On January 29th, 2001, I lost my 19-year-old son to an accidental drug overdose. There are no words to describe the pain of my loss. On that day, Dads and Mad Moms Against Drug Dealers was born. DAMMADD is a grassroots anti-drug organization committed to helping in the fight against the drug problem in our communities, our workplaces and our schools.

The DAMMADD program works in two ways:

1.) We pay rewards for tips about drug activity that lead to the arrest and conviction of drug dealers. Tips can be provided through the use of this site. All information will be kept anonymous, so your safety is ensured.

2.) We are committed to doing presentations to raise drug awareness throughout the country, reaching as many people as possible. Ours is a message of empowerment. We not only discuss with young people the dangers of drugs, we also give to them a tool they can use to stop drug activity in its tracks.

3.) We are now putting together a database of treatment centers, this will be a part of the DAMMADD website https://www.dammadd.org/needhelp.asp

Why should substance abuse centers want to sponsor the DAMMADD need help national network?  –

1.  We are getting on an average 250,000 hits per month.

2.  We are speaking in schools, communities which drives people that need help to our website.

3.  Exposure to your facility

4.  Your sponsorship is helping a 501c3 non profit organization get the word out about drug abuse and where to get help

DAMMADD is fighting back and our program is having an impact, We want to bring this program to your community unfortunately we are not a United Way Agency although we are A 501c-3 we do not get any funding from the United Way with Proper Funding we can work together and start putting those parasites behind bars were they belong and bring the DAMMADD Program to your schools. By Donating and getting involved we can make it happen in your community.

Sincerely

Steven H Steiner Sr

Steven H Steiner

President/Founder

check out these links

https://www.dammadd.org/video.asp

https://www.dammadd.org/mediaevents.asp

https://www.dammadd.org/Sponsors.asp

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