Ibogaine in the 21St Century: Boosters, Tune‡Ups and Maintenance
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TUNE UP FOLLOWED BY A FEW BOOST A THREE YEAR PERIOD (E INITIALLY DID IBOGAINE WITH THE ERS º i>»Ê>Ìi>ViWILL BRING SOMEONE TO ROUGHLY THE SAME STATE THEY INTENT OF ENDING HIS ADDICTION TO CRACK COCAINE 0OST WOULD ACHIEVE WITH AN INITIAL ¯-GKG RESET IBOGAINE HE ENTERED AFTERCARE SOUGHT PSYCHOTHERAPY AND ATTENDED SELF HELP GROUPS )N SHORT HE WAS THE IDEAL PATIENT (E IS EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT HAS A HIGH LEVEL OF )BOGAINE IS METABOLIZED BY THE LIVER AND CONVERTS SELF AWARENESS FUNCTIONS WITHIN SOCIETY AND HAS NO LIMI TO NORIBOGAINE HYDROXYIBOGAMINE 4HERE IS ALSO TATIONS DUE TO A LACK OF ½NANCIAL RESOURCES EVIDENCE THAT IBOGAINE HAS A HIGH PROPENSITY FOR BEING (E THRIVED IMMEDIATELY POST IBOGAINE BUT GRADUALLY DEPOSITED IN ADIPOSE TISSUE RESULTING IN A DEPOT LIKE EFFECT WANDERED FURTHER AND FURTHER OUT UNTIL AT ROUGHLY THREE )N PRACTICE FOR ROUGHLY SEVEN TO TEN DAYS AFTER DOSING WITH MONTHS HE HIT THE WALL FELL APART AND RELAPSED 4HIS IBOGAINE°ASSUMING YOU HAVE RELATIVELY NORMAL BODYFAT OCCURRED AFTER EACH SESSION !FTER THE INITIAL RELAPSE THE LEVELS°YOUR MOOD WILL BE NOTICEABLY ENHANCED ,IFE WILL DOWNWARD SPIRAL BEGAN AND CONTINUED UNTIL HE WAS SMOK SEEM PARTICULARLY GOOD ING CRACK ON A DAILY BASIS AND EVENTUALLY RE DOSED WITH 4HIS IS THE MYTHICAL ±WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY² THAT IBOGAINE ONCE MORE %ACH BOTTOM WAS GETTING PROGRES HAS BEEN MENTIONED REPEATEDLY WITH REGARDS TO IBOGAINE SIVELY LOWER (E HAD FEARS THAT IF HE REPEATED THIS CYCLE ADMINISTRATION )T IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO PLAN AHEAD AGAIN HE WOULD REACH THE STAGE WHERE HE SIMPLY WOULD SPRINGBULLINDD !- Ê>Ê«ÊÃÊ UÊ ÛÊÊÊÕÊÊiÊ 8Ê6Ê ÊÕÊÊLÊiÊÀÊ £Ê UÊ Ã«À}ÊÊÓÊäÊäÊxÊ Ê ÓÎ NOT BE COMING BACK FROM THE LAST BINGE AND EITHER DIE OR POTENTIATES THE ANALGESIC EFFECT OF OPIATES AND OPIOIDS COME TO HIS SENSES ½VE YEARS LATER INSTEAD OF PULLING OUT -ALE MID ´S IN GOOD HEALTH WHO HAS AFTER A FEW MONTHS )NDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCED FULL BLOWN RESETS USING IBOGAINE (#L IN THE 4HE LAST TIME HE HIT THE INITIAL RELAPSE HE WAS DOSED PAST (IS AVERAGE DAILY INTAKE WAS -GS OXYCODONE AND WITH -G OF IBOGAINE (#L IN AN ATTEMPT TO HALT THE ¯-GS HYDROMORPHONE $ILAUDID WHICH HE IS PRE DOWNWARD SPIRAL 4HIS WORKED IN HELPING HIM BREAK SCRIBED FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT THROUGH THIS CRITICAL PHASE AND ALLOWED HIM TO MOVE "Y USING A VERY LOW DOSE REGIMEN OF ¯-GS OF ONWARDS !FTER THE INITIAL -G DOSE HE HAS CONTINUED IBOGAINE (#L ON A DAILY BASIS HE WAS ABLE TO TAPER DOWN USING IBOGAINE (#L ON AN ±AS NEEDED² BASIS &OR HIM THIS TO A POINT AT WHICH -G OF OXYCODONE IS SUBJECTIVELY