Whether you decide to take ibogaine for depression, PTSD, or addiction, you are opening a window of opportunity for radical change in your life. Once ingested, ibogaine is converted by the liver into nor-ibogaine, a fat soluble metabolite, which is stored in the fat cells and can stay in the system for up to 30 days or longer. What you do or do not do during this roughly 30-day window has a profound effect on your rate of recovery and can make the difference in your sobriety. After the treatment, the real work starts. A lack of discipline and structure has kept you in a routine that focused on using. If you quickly address your unresolved issues (start cleaning up the wreckage of the past) you will start to find a new freedom. When you experience emotional responses and triggers, apply mindfulness techniques and use your support group. Because much of your behaviors are unconscious or subconscious, these habits need to be observed. The ibogaine resets your neural pathways back to baseline –back to your pre-addicted brain. That means you’re working with a blank slate. You have time now to create new neural pathways. It’s crucial to have tools to take back with you to your life, techniques you can use to to retrain your brain. A meditation practice is an essential building block for new thought patterns. In your pre-ibogaine brain, your default thought pattern was stress, anxiety, needing a fix. Now that’s gone. What you want to do in this 30-day window is create a new default for your brain — quiet. Calm. Expansiveness. A daily meditation practice will teach your brain to default to a peaceful state. No racing thoughts, no anxiety. Throughout the day, every time you catch yourself going down an old rabbit hole in your brain, stop, breathe, and try to enter a meditative state. Or fill your brain with good, healthy thoughts. Repeat “I love you, I love you, I love you,” over and over again even if you feel silly. It’s no sillier than the terrible thoughts you’ve been having about yourself for years. You need to replace those with positive thoughts. Say them even if you don’t mean them. Soon, you will. Meditation also allows you to observe your thoughts. By observing your thoughts you will start to notice how you react to triggers, and the more you start to observe your thoughts, the less unconscious they will be. When the thoughts move from your unconscious to your conscious mind, you have the ability to change them. Many believe addiction has to do with core traumas and/or spiritual maladies. Ibogaine often gives you a review of your life which allows us to recontextualize your past and move more freely into the present moment. It is important that you continue to investigate your experiences and how you react emotionally to them. Emotional maturity will come in time as you face demons and adopt new beliefs rooted in personal responsibility not victim consciousness. What we know is that continued care is critical to maximizing your ibogaine experience. If it is addiction you are trying to address more often than not it is suggested you go somewhere other than the environment comfortably suited to support your addiction. Somewhere safe, other than home, might be the best choice you could make. Physical exercise, spiritual practice, meditation, proper diet and adequate sleep will insure you have a speedy recovery. The Anzelmo Wellness Center is an integrated clinic dedicated to healing severe addiction, deep trauma, and other challenges that life hands us. Our treatment philosophy combines the best of Western treatment modalities with ancient healing techniques and traditional indigenous wisdom.
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Overdoses and our Success Rate
ewebmarketing1@gmail.com, , Addiction Treatment, Anzelmo in the Press, 0We use plant medicines to help clean your system of opiates, but also to help you to see yourself: your habits, your pains, wounds, traumas, and the roots and cause of your addictions or depression, in such a powerful and clear way. Ibogaine and ayahuasca can show you why you have your anger, stubbornness, loneliness, separation, sadness, reactions, and emotional triggers. It can help you release the shame, guilt, and self-judgement. And can help you forgive yourself, for all the suffering you caused others, yourself, and the wrongs that have been done to you. Drug overdoses now kill more people than gun homicides and car crashes combined. In fact, between 1999 and 2015, more than 560,000 people in this country died due to drug overdoses – this is a death toll larger than the entire population of Atlanta, according to the report. “In 2015, nearly two-thirds of drug overdoses were linked to opioids like Percocet, OxyContin, heroin, and fentanyl,” states the report. “This is an epidemic that all Americans face because here is the grim reality: Americans consume more opioids than any other country in the world. In fact, in 2015, the amount of opioids prescribed in the U.S. was enough for every American to be medicated around the clock for three weeks. Since 1999, the number of opioid overdoses in America have quadrupled according to the CDC. Not coincidentally, in that same period, the amount of prescription opioids in America have quadrupled as well. This massive increase in prescribing has occurred despite the fact that there has not been an overall change in the amount of pain Americans have reported in that time period,” according to the report. We are more than just an ibogaine clinic — we are steadily building a healthy-living model that can help people recover, and our success rate reflects that. We have carefully selected various therapies as part of our detox plan and recovery program that work with patients on a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level, in order to make your transition into a sober lifestyle as easy as possible after your Ibogaine treatment. When a recovering addict opens up new body and mind pathways of thought, emotion and being, new vibrations are created, thus disrupting and decreasing previous addiction memory pathways. As you remove your old habit — addiction — we want to replace it with new habits: positive and supportive techniques that you will take with you when you leave and start rebuilding your life. Those include Qigong, Kundalini yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, psychotherapy, functional medicine, nutrition, acupuncture, sweat lodges, meditation, breathwork and Chinese medicine. Traditional rehabs show a success rate of less than 20 percent for heroin and opiate users. A recent Ibogaine study in Mexico sponsored by MAPS reported a 75 percent reduction in their drug use 30 days following treatment, and 33% reported no opioid use three months later. At Anzelmo, our success rate is markedly higher. Depending on the criteria applied, we have between a 30 and 60 percent success rate. We have found anecdotally that two thirds of the people who have come through the center in the last year are still clean. Some of them relapsed upon return home, but thanks to their experience here, they were able to pull themselves out of addiction and reach sobriety again. The Anzelmo Wellness Center is an integrated clinic dedicated to healing severe addiction, deep trauma, and other challenges that life hands us. Our treatment philosophy combines the best of Western treatment modalities with ancient healing techniques and traditional indigenous wisdom.
Nine fun facts about Suboxone that doctors don’t tell you
ewebmarketing1@gmail.com, , Addiction Treatment, Drug & Alcohol Detoxification, 0At The Anzelmo Wellness Center we use plant medicines to help clean your system of opiates, but also to help you to see yourself: your habits, your pains, wounds, traumas, and the roots and cause of your addictions or depression, in such a powerful and clear way. Our unique approach walks you through your work to have deeply entrenched patterns fall away to be replaced with new habits and the discipline to resolve future cravings, create supportive relationships, resolve past wreckage, and get back to building the life you dream about. Many heroin users turn to suboxone to get off dope. But at The Anzelmo Wellness Center, we treat patients with Ibogaine, a one time treatment with zero addictive properties. Here are some facts about suboxone to consider: Suboxone was meant to be a short term detox medication, but doctor’s don’t tell you that. Instead, they overprescribe it and within weeks, patients are addicted. It makes you feel slow and dull. It has a long half life. It lingers in your system for about three days when you stop taking it, but on the fourth day, the withdrawal symptoms set in, hard. The withdrawal can last for weeks. Some people say it takes a full year to feel like they are back to normal after going off of the drug. Withdrawal symptoms include restless leg syndrome, depression, confusion, throwing up, sweating, diarrhea, and sleeplessness. Suboxone is a $1.5 billion market in the US, according to National Pain Report news site. It’s a huge money maker for pharmaceutical companies, and doctors, some of whom charge cash for prescriptions and don’t do proper evaluations or therapies with their patients. The longer a patient stays hooked on suboxone, the more money pharmaceutical companies and doctors make. Replacing heroin with suboxone is simply replacing one opioid with another. Although suboxone doesn’t get you high, it’s still a drug, and it can turn into a long-term addiction, just like heroin. Over 20,000 physicians in the U.S. are certified to prescribe suboxone, according to the National Pain Report, but many who prescribe it have no training in working with addiction. Last year patients filled about 9 million prescriptions for Suboxone or buprenorphine products. The Anzelmo Wellness Center is an integrated clinic dedicated to healing severe addiction, deep trauma, and other challenges that life hands us. Our treatment philosophy combines the best of Western treatment modalities with ancient healing techniques and traditional indigenous wisdom.
