PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE – Documentary by Bill Eagles Aired on: February 27th, 1997, BBC NARRATOR (HUGH QUARSHIE): Controversial human experiments with the psychedelic drug LSD held new promise for psychiatry in the 1950s. They were closed down when the drug was made illegal in 1966. Today a new generation of American scientists…
Sunday 9 March 2008: Drug Peace Conference Ibogaine — a Therapy Under The Gun of Prohibition 15.00 – 17.00 Altes AKH, Hof 2, Hörsaal C1, Spitalgasse 2 1090 Vienna (U2 Schottentor, U6 Alserstrasse, Tram 43,44) Presenters / Participants Dana Beal (USA) Jacques de Schryver (France) Boaz Wachtel (Israel) Patrick Venulejo…
Science, Strategy and Response 15/9/2008 / Room #430 / 11:00–12:30 Presenters / Participants Dana Beal (US): Founder, Cures Not Wars GDNF “Re-Sprouting“ of Dopamine Neurons Elucidates Therapeutic Iboga Effects Seen in Addicts
Ibogaine: A Novel Anti-Addictive Compound A Comprehensive Literature Review By: Jonathan Freedlander Advisor: Carlo DiClemente, Ph.D. University of Maryland, Baltimore County Introduction and History Ibogaine is a naturally occurring indole alkaloid, found in a variety of African shrubs of the Tabernanthe genus (Obach, Pablo, and Mash, 1998). The root of…
Copyright © 2001, Patrick K. Kroupa All Rights Reserved Original Publication: Heroin Times On December 12th, the second ibogaine conference to be held in London took place. Roughly 100 people gathered for the event; many of them traveling from all over the world to take part in the proceedings. Ibogaine…
Copyright © 2002, Patrick K. Kroupa All Rights Reserved Original Publication: Heroin Times In the January issue of Heroin Times, I provided a brief summary of the topics which were covered at the second ibogaine conference in the U.K, which was held on December 12th 2001. This article provides a…
Copyright © 1995-1996, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved CHAPTER 17: Cures Not Wars In February, 1994, Robert Rygor died. He’d become a beneficiary of the free pot program, and as facilitator of ACT UP Coordinating Committee, which set the agenda for the…
Copyright © 1995-1996, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved CHAPTER 10: Carlo Contoreggi Howard Lotsof actually first contacted Charlie Grudzinskasbefore he was appointed head of MDD in January, 1991. Scanning a publication calledThe Scientist in November, 1990, he noticed an interview of a…
Copyright © 1995-1996, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved CHAPTER 7: Stanley Glick In 1986, Howard Lotsof again approached the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) and asked them to put Ibogaine to the hardest test. Have your doctors, he said, give it…
Copyright © 1995-1996, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved CHAPTER 6: Bob Sisko Before their falling out, Kleber did introduce Lotsof to Louis Harris, a very prominent biochemist in the opiate field. Harris maintained colonies of addicted animals at the Medical College of…