Some are highly useful, some fall under that broad category of people who have sumthin' to sell you, and really don't have a clue as to what the fuck they're talking about; and much of what remains is a collage of opinions about doing ibogaine for personal development -- as opposed to kicking drugs -- or endless meandering about how someone took ibogaine, gained incredible insights, and managed to stop smoking.
Okay, I don't mean to disparage anybody's life struggles, but... whatever planet you're on, it ain't where I'm coming from.
If my major problem was smoking too many cigarettes, I would have been extremely grateful. Chain-smoking doesn't even make a dent in my top-10 list of issues. Best of luck, but what you're talking 'bout has little or nothing to do with me.
So, basically, what will follow is my best attempt to present the realities of what ibogaine actually does; what it doesn't do; and what YOU can do to stay off heroin once you've dosed
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with it. I don't sell ibogaine, I am not involved in aftercare treatment, and I don't in any way profit from any of this -- in short, personally, it makes absolutely no difference to me what you do with yourself to get clean, or how you maintain after the fact.
To provide a brief summation of my life prior to ibogaine:
I've chipped with heroin since I was 14 years old, this took roughly a decade to turn into what I would personally define as a "problem."
At the time I first got strung-out, my partner (Bruce Fancher) and I, were running the first ISP (Internet Service Provider) in New York City -- one of the first five in the United States -- in the years that followed I've shot up and smoked, well over 7 figures; repeatedly burnt down opportunities, relationships, companies, book deals, and a wide assortment of "stuff" that would fall into the category of possessions, personal values, and finally, freedom . . . all in the pursuit of heroin.
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