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What all of this amounts to is: complete lack of interest from the
medical community. Aside from helping those who are addicted to drugs,
become un-addicted; there seems to be little incentive in developing
ibogaine - there are no dollar signs at the end of the rainbow.
As nice as it might be to believe that medicine is all about helping
those who need help; it's not really so much a question of, "can we
solve this problem," as it is, "can we generate a tremendous amount of
revenue by solving this problem."
To make a long and extremely convoluted story short: at the present
time the only scientist running large-scale clinical studies on ibogaine and
its effects on detoxing drug-dependent human beings, is Dr. Deborah
Mash.
As of this date, the Healing Visions clinic in St. Kitts has detoxed
over 250 drug-dependent individuals.
To summarize the results:
yup, ibogaine sure seems to be extremely
effective in making your habit go buh-bye. In particular, that whole
entire strung out on opiates/opioids scenario.
That's great and all, but not extremely useful to YOU, if you happen to
have a habit you wanna cut loose. Most especially if you don't have
access to the funds which would make a medically-supervised detox a
viable possibility for you.
On the flipside of all this, while ibogaine HCl is relatively scarce;
the Indra materials and unpurified ibogaine root bark, are pretty much all
over the place. Especially in the Netherlands.
While London currently has no lack of informal treatment providers,
this will probably be changing in the near-future, as ibogaine is likely to
become a scheduled substance in England.
To cop a line from William Gibson, "the street finds its own use for
things." In the case of ibogaine, it's been one very long and strange
trip, from sacrament used in the Gabon, for spiritual initiation
ceremonies by the Bwiti; to molecule being used by 21st century urban
junkies, looking to get unsprung...
Unfortunately....
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