MAPS Bulletin volume xiii number 2 winter 2003 Ibogaine: Treatment Outcomes and Observations Epoptica & Junk the Magic Dragon (Hattie Wells & Patrick K. Kroupa) Background Ibogaine is a naturally-occurring psychoactive indole alkaloid derived from the roots of the African rainforest shrub Tabernanthe iboga. Ibogaine is traditionally used by indigenous…
maps • volume xv number 1 • Spring 2005 By Patrick K. Kroupa & Hattie Wells History The history of using ibogaine to break the cycle of drug-dependence is relatively short. While it is likely that the CIBA pharmaceutical company and the US government were aware of ibogaine’s anti-addictive properties…
Breaking the Cycle: Staying Clean Copyright © 2002, Patrick K. Kroupa All Rights Reserved Original Publication: Heroin Times All right, you have detoxed; whatever modality you chose to use, you are presently in a drug-free state — or using medications someone has prescribed for you, to assist you with whatever…
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…
Ibogaine: The Whole Entire Everything (in its complete totality… partially) Copyright © 2005-2008, Patrick K. Kroupa All Rights Reserved “Everything is Poison. Nothing is Poison.” –Paracelsus “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for…
Copyright © 2004, Patrick K. Kroupa All Rights Reserved Original Publication: Heroin Times “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” –Albert Einstein “I have not failed; I have just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.” —Thomas Edison “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” –Walt…
Holding it all Together Copyright © 2002, Patrick K. Kroupa All Rights Reserved Original Publication: Heroin Times This will be the last installment of the addiction mini-series for Heroin Times. While I could easily continue for months — or years — bringing up every possible situation or question that arises…
The Ibogaine List / Purpose The Ibogaine List was established in 2001 to facilitate discussion of Philip K. Dick; time travel physics; bathtub chemistry; elaborate conspiracy theories, and UFO’s. It provides highly-disturbed individuals with a publicly accessible venue where they can have extended seizures about whatever is really bothering them,…
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…
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…