At The Anzelmo Ibogaine 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. Ibogaine 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.
Two promising studies published in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse found that Ibogaine Treatment should be further studied as a treatment for opioid dependence – especially for those for whom other treatment options have not worked.
Found in the iboga plant of Africa, ibogaine is a naturally occurring psychoactive substance that is used to treat various addictions including alcohol, methamphetamines, heroin, methadone, and food. It’s also effective treating anxiety and depression, as well as other types of mental illness.
Both studies were sponsored by MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. The study in Mexico, which came out on May 25, had 30 participants. 12 of 30 reported 75% reduction in their drug use 30 days following treatment, and 33% reported no opioid use three months later.
“Iboga could give an opiate addict several months to half a year of freedom from craving, and a period of time in which to get their life together and learn to face things straightforwardly, directly and honestly. Iboga will not do the work for you,” said one participant in the Mexico study.
The second study, from New Zealand, which came out April 12, showed that a single dose of ibogaine could reduce withdrawal symptoms for heroin and opioid users, and result in complete abstinence from the drug or a consistent reduction for up to 12 months.
One patient in the New Zealand study who was not properly monitored by the medical staff, died. It’s unclear what caused her death, exactly. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that the opioid epidemic caused 91 deaths per day in the United States in 2016.
The Anzelmo Ibogaine 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.
