International Harm Reduction Conference in Barcelona Ibogaine — Users’ Choice Session Ibogaine Session: Monday, May 12, 2008, at 6:00 PM (18:00) Presenters / Participants Moderator: Alan Clear / Executive Director, Harm Reduction Coalition, NY (USA) Howard S. Lotsof / President, Dora Weiner Foundation, Staten Island, NY (USA) Ibogaine Treatment For…
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Hallucinogen May Cure Drug Addiction (Copyright 2004, KRON 4. All rights reserved.) BAY AREA (KRON) — Drug addiction has been the plague of modern America. But that could now change forever. What started as a rumor may now actually be an incredible breakthrough in the battle against addictions of all…
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An Array of New Drugs Show Promise in Fighting Addiction by: Gautam Naik The Wall Street Journal — (July 15, 2002) Could people be inoculated against drug addictions the way they can against some infectious diseases? It may be possible. Despite disappointing past efforts to treat addictions with medicine, recent…
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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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Daily News Activist: ‘CSI’ is high on lie by Lloyd Grove Daily News — (02.2004) CBS has provoked the wrath of a group of former junkies and their supporters who are spitting mad about tonight’s episode of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” Ex-cocaine and amphetamine user Dana Beal, who heads Cures…
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How a UM doctor may soon unveil the ultimate cure for addictions, and uncovered the mystery surrounding sudden cocaine deaths (Reprinted from South Florida magazine) By Nina L. Diamond Photograph by Jane Mitchell Cocaine overdoses had become more common in South Florida than frostbite in Alaska. At the peak of…
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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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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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A Miracle Cure for Addiction? by Tristram Korten Photographs © 2006, Simon Hare Photography Ocean Drive Magazine / (April 2006) Though South Beach may be a hotspot for A-list substance abuse, across the causeway a Miami doctor is struggling to legalize an astonishing treatment derived from an African plant. Most…
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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. Tabernanthe iboga, the West African source of ibogaine, used by some to treat addiction. New York — Some drugs are made in laboratories. Others,…
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