2009: Drug Policy Alliance Conference

The Drug Policy Alliance 2009 International Conference Albuquerque Convention Center — Albuquerque, New Mexico Saturday, November 14, 2009, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Room: Sleta / Jemez Moderator: Howard Lotsof, President, Dora Weiner Foundation, Staten Island, NY Mr. Lotsof is the recipient of this year’s Robert Randall Award for Achievement…

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2010: The 2010 Ibogaine Conference

#9 Bleecker St., New York City, NY 10012 President’s Day Weekend (Sat., Feb. 14 to Mon., Feb. 15) Sponsored By the National AIDS Brigade Cures not Wars Northeastern Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) Schedule Saturday, Feb. 13, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. [10:00 AM] Ibogaine Overview Jeffrey Kamlet, M.D.,…

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1999: NYU Ibogaine Conference

1999: NYU Ibogaine Conference Original Message ***************** There will be a Conference on Ibogaine at NYU School of Medicine on November 5 & 6, 1999. Perhaps some of you would be interested in attending. You can view the Conference web page, which includes the Conference Program and participants, a review…

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Addicted to Addiction

University of Miami’s Deborah Mash believes ibogaine could be the wonder drug to end all drugs. And she’s ready to risk everything to prove it. By Paula Park (Originally published in Miami New Times — 09.11.1997) Deborah Mash and her three colleagues from the University of Miami strolled into the…

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Ibogaine: Down Memory Lane

Does one trip equal 30 years on a therapist’s couch? By Nina L. Diamond OMNI Magazine, February 1994  It’s the closest thing anyone’s seen to a bona fide cure for drug and alcohol addiction, yet, paradoxically, Ibogaine’s curative power seems to derive from its consciousness-altering properties. Despite the government’s historic…

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One-Step Cure for Addiction?

by Jerome Burne Focus Magazine / (July 2000) Beneath a brilliant vault of stars, a young man is sitting on a rug somewhere out in the South African veldt. But he only has eyes for the extraordinary parade of images inside his head. There is a tremor to his legs…

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Ibogaine: Proceedings of the First International Conference

Reprinted from The Entheogen Review, Vol XI, Number 1, Vernal Equinox Ibogaine: Proceedings of the First International Conference Review by Thomas Lyttle Copyright © 2002, The Entheogen Review Reprinted with Permission Ibogaine: Proceedings of the First International Conference, by Kenneth R. Alper and Stanley D. Glick (Eds) 2001. (ACADEMIC PRESS,…

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Anti-Addiction Drug in Limbo

Illegal in U.S., ibogaine advocates say it blocks withdrawal symptoms By Malcolm Ritter / Associated Press (2000) What if addiction, whether to cocaine, heroin or alcohol, could be broken by taking a single pill? That’s the audacious claim behind ibogaine, an extract of an African shrub. But don’t look for…

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Detox or Die

Documentary Maker may Film His Own Death By Liam McDougall Sunday Herald — (July 13, 2003) AN ACCLAIMED documentary maker has admitted that he is prepared to die while filming himself taking a powerful hallucinogenic drug that has been hailed as a cure for addiction but linked to a number…

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Uncovering Ibogaine

the Deborah Mash Interview with Paul DeRienzo Dr. Deborah Mash is a faculty member in the Department of Neurology of the University of Miami, School of Medicine with a secondary appointment in Cellular Molecular Pharmacology. Dr. Mash’s area of expertise is called Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience and her doctoral dissertation was…

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