Deborah Mash’s Brain

Copyright © 1995, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved CHAPTER 18: Deborah Mash’s Brain In March, 1994, in strictest secrecy, Howard Lotsof re-instituted treatments of addict volunteers in an ultramodern hospital in Panama City, with pre-treatment work-ups at the University of Miami. But…

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Cures Not Wars

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…

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The Passover Plot

Copyright © 1995-1996, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved CHAPTER 16: The Passover Plot Three days after preliminary drafts of Chapters 14 & 15 were finished, Dana was thinking about the report from PIKAL, of the subject who went through “a door of…

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Molliver’s Travels

Copyright © 1995-1996, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved CHAPTER 15: Molliver’s Travels Behind the scenes, as is often the case, the postponement of the Day One Ibogaine story was being dictated by other agendas and other schedules. In April, unbeknownst to Lotsof…

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Bwiti

Copyright © 1995-1996, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved CHAPTER 13: Bwiti The first time he could sit down with Dhoruba after he came back from Ghana, Dana told him that before, he hadn’t wanted to tell him what to do–but that coming…

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Agent of Coincidence

Copyright © 1995-1996, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved CHAPTER 12: Agent of Coincidence One day in late July 1990, when he was stuck somewhere with nothing to do, Dana re-read a book he remembered as having offered a glimpse of Ibogaine’s proba-ble…

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Ibogaine: Rants, Raves, Questions & Answers

Copyright © 2001, Patrick K. Kroupa All Rights Reserved Original Publication: Heroin Times What’s so different about ibogaine? I know a lot of people who have gotten clean using all kinds of other methods, what’s the big deal? I have absolutely no argument with that, or anything to say that…

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Ibogaine: Miracle Cure for Everything…?

Copyright © 2001, Patrick K. Kroupa All Rights Reserved Original Publication: Heroin Times  “It’s been a while, since I’ve gone and fucked things up, just like I always do…” –Staind (It’s Been a While / Break the Cycle) Over the course of the past coupla years, ibogaine has started to…

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Ibogaine Story: The Staten Island Project

Copyright © 1995-1996, Paul De Rienzo, Dana Beal and Members of the Project All Rights Reserved Reproduced by permission of: Cures Not Wars “I have seen the best minds of my generation, starving, hysterical, naked, dragging themselves through negro streets at dawn, looking for an angry fix…” –Allen Ginsberg, the…

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Ibogaine

Copyright © 2000, Patrick K. Kroupa All Rights Reserved Original Publication: Heroin Times After many years of heavy opiate addiction, I had tried pretty much every available detox on the planet, ranging from UROD (Ultra Rapid Opiate Detox), Dr. Richard Resnick’s “black box” (TENS unit), methadone, Buprinex, tapering down to…

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