One Magic Pill to makes you better! NOT IN THE US not profitable!

[alexisfree]

http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2005-01-06/cover.asp

When a drug gets a “schedule one” rating from the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it means mainstream medicine thinks it has high potential for abuse and no current medical value. The label also proclaims that use of the drug on humans is illegal in the United States. But that doesn’t stop it from being perfectly legal in other countries.

Enter ibogaine, a powerful hallucinogen that some say can help people break addictions to everything from heroin to prescription drugs to cigarettes. The drug, derived from the roots of a West African shrub, received its FDA ranking in the mid-1980s.

One pill makes you better American drug and alcohol addicts are going abroad in search of ibogaine, a purported miracle treatment that is banned in the United States.

The treatment is a dose of a powerful hallucinogen called ibogaine. It is derived from the roots of a shrub called Tabernanthe iboga, which grows in western Africa. Local tribespeople have used it as a peyote-like sacrament for generations. Since the 1960s, it has circulated on the margins of Western drug culture, sustained by its reputation as a potent healer. A single daylong trip on ibogaine, lore has it, can help break an addiction to heroin, cocaine, alcohol or cigarettes.

http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2005-01-06/editnote.asp

The pharmaceutical industry doesn’t want much to do with drugs that cure addiction. Yes, millions of people in the United States are addicts, but there’s no money to be made in treatments that don’t require repeated use. “It’s not very profitable, and it’s bad public relations.”

[htuttle]

1. The way the ibogaine trip was described to me

Apparently, the hallucinations consist primarily of a reliving of every single 'mistake' (or what you consider a mistake) you've ever made from the earliest memories to the present.

Whether this is more due to the drug, or the coaching that always accompanies ibogaine trips, I'm not sure. That is how it was always used traditionally, and I was told that the treatment (in the Netherlands) followed the same 'program'.

[yella_dawg]

2. Reliving your mistakes???

Fuck that. It'd be a six-month trip just to relive the obvious mistakes.

[global1]

3. I Wonder What Would Happen If They Gave this Drug to *? .... n/t

[Clark2008]

9. He would never be born. n/t

[alexisfree]

7. I know...

but is sad that we have to go to other countries to find the cure...good thing I live in Cali. can be a weekend trip!!

[alexisfree]

4. did you think * had tried this treatment before?

:shrug:

[Atman]

6. Wouldn't work for Bush

He hasn't made any mistakes. It would be a wasted trip.

[FlemingsGhost]

5. Do we really need a drug to do that?

Wanna heal? Forgive yourself, and everyone else for all "mistakes."

Classic 12-step stuff, isn't it?

[Jesus H. Christ]

8. Wow. One magic pill.

Hey! I have some magic beans. Would anybody like to purchase them? It will only cost you your last worldly possessions.