Patrick Kroupa​

Patrick K. Kroupa is a founder of Transcend Clinic, and serves on the Board of Directors. He brings more than 20 years of professional experience working with psychedelic molecules for substance abuse disorders and mental health issues. 

Patrick was a high-functioning heroin addict for his entire early adult life. His relationship with heroin began at age 14 and continued until his 30th year. At the age of 20 he was a founder, President and Chairman of MindVox, New York City’s first internet access provider.

Patrick was detoxed from a 2 gram a day heroin and 200mg methadone habit at the Healing Visions experimental research facility, St. Kitts, W.I., by Dr. Deborah C. Mash in 1999. Subsequently, he was recruited by Dr. Mash and began working at the University of Miami’s Ibogaine Research Project at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, where he remained for the next eight years. 

During the 2000s, while working professionally in an academic environment at
the Ibogaine Research Project and participating in high-end, medically supervised treatment at St. Kitts, Patrick began experimenting with microdose administration of ibogaine and pioneered the use of low-dose ibogaine protocols for individuals who might be unsuitable for larger “flood” doses due to underlying medical issues. 

He is co-author of the first — and to date, only — paper ever published on the topic of “microdosing” and boosters (regular intake of small or fractional doses of ibogaine), which appeared in the Spring 2005 issue of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS).

In 2012, Patrick became one of the Founders of Clear Sky, the world’s longest-running, medically-supervised and clinically-managed ibogaine treatment facility. As of 2024 Clear Sky had over 4,700 successful treatment episodes with ibogaine. 

In 2021 Mr. Kroupa’s IP was acquired and he became CPO of BetterLife Pharma. He is co-inventor of two issued patents for 2-Bromo-LSD (BOL-148),

Patrick and his work have been featured in over 100 books, films, television reports and a wide spectrum of periodicals including Wired, Forbes, the New Yorker, Time, Rolling Stone, NY Magazine, Esquire, Radar, Details and MAPS. Patrick is featured in Benjamin De Loenen’s documentary film, Ibogaine: Rite of Passage, and Lucy Walker’s 2023 film: Iboga, Night & Light. He has appeared in many special reports covering the topic of ibogaine. He has been a speaker at dozens of international harm-reduction and drug-user advocacy conferences; he organized and ran all ibogaine treatment panels for the North American Harm Reduction Coalition during the 2000s; he has spoken at universities around the world, debated at The Phil and presented before the American Medical Association. Patrick has maintained continuous abstinence from heroin, methadone and all other opioid drugs — cocaine and methamphetamine — for the entire 21st century. As of 2024, he’s been “clean” for 24 years.