Ibogaine Treatment and Early Recovery
Ibogaine Treatment and Early Recovery Although we entered the 21st century a while ago, most conventional wisdom in addiction treatment still categorizes drug dependence as a chronic, progressive, irreversible, relapsing disease, which cannot be cured and at best the person suffering from this condition can experience periods of stability where a locus of control is […]
Finding Your Path with Ibogaine Treatment
Finding Your Path with Ibogaine Treatment Ibogaine treatment is rarely utilized by drug dependent individuals, until they have attempted to detox and stay “clean” using a wide spectrum of more mainstream and conventional addiction treatment modalities. Most people with a drug problem do not wake up one day and decide that it’d be a neat […]
Ibogaine, Isolation and Addiction
Ibogaine, Isolation and Addiction Addiction and isolation are two states which are often inter-related and simultaneously present in individuals seeking treatment for drug dependence. People who are addicted to drugs usually keep their habits to themselves, especially after the initial period of experimentation is over, and you’ve become a daily user of a given substance. […]
Mindfulness and Self-Acceptance
Mindfulness and Self-Acceptance Drug-dependent individuals are often self-medicating co-occurring disorders and unresolved traumatic events from their past which have not been processed and integrated; in many cases they’re so deeply buried that you have no conscious daily awareness of them at all. Comorbid medical disorders present their own spectrum of issues which must addressed, often […]
Reclaim Your Life in 2017
Reclaim Your Life in 2017 Making a resolution to step off the endless treadmill of getting high (or just getting normal and being able to function in the latter stages of drug dependence), followed by doing whatever you need to do in order to get more money to get high again, while watching the rest […]
Surviving the Holidays
Surviving the Holidays Under the best conditions, the holiday season can be a difficult time for even the most stable, healthy, and psychologically well-adjusted human beings. It’s an entire span of time filled with additional responsibilities which often entail meeting the expectations of other people who may have a very different relationship with Christmas and […]
Finding Paradigms in Recovery that Work For You
Finding Paradigms in Recovery that Work For You There’s a gradual and inexorable shift in addiction treatment which embraces more possibilities and treatment paradigms beyond our present disease model of addiction and utilizing 12-step groups as a means to somehow slow and stabilize the progression of what’s been termed a “chronic, progressive, and incurable disease.” […]
Dealing with Cravings after Ibogaine Treatment
Dealing with Cravings after Ibogaine Treatment After a successful ibogaine detoxification most people feel pretty good, and that can be an understatement; a more accurate characterization would be ecstatic, exhilarated to finally be free of an addiction that’s kept them in its thrall for years or decades, and happy to be alive. Everything seems possible, […]
The Ibogaine Experience
The Ibogaine Experience History of Ibogaine Use in the Western World Ibogaine was a little-known molecule within North America, with very minimal research into its medical applications occurring during the 1950s. Between 1955-1957 the CIBA pharmaceutical company briefly investigated ibogaine as an anti-hypertensive agent, and made some discoveries about its interesting “side effects” with regards […]
Ibogaine Research & Psychedelic Therapy
Ibogaine Research & Psychedelic Therapy The resurgence of scientific investigation of entheogenic substances is very exciting and shows tremendous promise for helping people heal their addictions and afflictions, but there’s no lack of pre-existing data. During the 50s to early 70s there was a wide of spectrum of research happening with psychedelics. There is data […]