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PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY AND THE 53 GOVERN YEARS AND WHOSE WHOLE LIFE REVOLVES AROUND JUNK MENT WERE AWARE OF IBOGAINE´S ANTI ADDICTIVE PROPERTIES %ARLY REPORTS OF INDIVIDUALS DOSING WITH IBOGAINE MAY AS EARLY AS THE ANECDOTAL OBSERVATIONS OF (OWARD BE PARAPHRASED AS ±) TOOK IBOGAINE ONCE SAW 'OD FOUND ,OTSOF IN ARE GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS THE STARTING POINT MYSELF CAME DOWN TO %ARTH FOOD TASTED GREAT ) STOPPED INITIATING WAVES OF INTEREST THAT HAVE CONTINUED SPREADING SMOKING STARTING EXPERIENCING LIFE AS ) HAVEN´T SINCE ) WAS SINCE THAT DATE A CHILD AND RODE OFF INTO A ROSY SUNSET² 2EADING THROUGH THE EARLY ANECDOTAL LITERATURE THE )N THERE TENDS TO BE ONE ADDITIONAL SENTENCE OVERALL TONE IS OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE 4HE EXPERI FOLLOWING UP ALL OF THAT ±AND TWO TO FOUR WEEKS AFTER ) ENCES INDICATE INSTANT AND ABRUPT CESSATION OF DESIRE TO WROTE THOSE WORDS ) HAD A NEEDLE BACK IN MY ARM OR WAS USE DRUGS THE IDEA BEING THAT YOU TAKE IBOGAINE ONCE AND SUCKING ON A CRACK PIPE² NEVER WANT TO USE DRUGS AGAIN )T IS HAILED AS A ±CURE² FOR !NOTHER ISSUE IS INCOMPLETE OR MISSING DATA )NFORMA ADDICTION *OGPSNBUJPOSFHBSEJOHGPMMPXVQTION REGARDING FOLLOW UP TREATMENTS IS NOT PUBLICIZED ±) 4HE PROBLEM WITH MOST DID IBOGAINE ONCE AND WAS OF THESE REPORTS IS THAT THEY USFBUNFOUTJTOPUQVCMJDJ[FEi*EJE NO LONGER AN ADDICT² IS NOT DO NOT WITHSTAND THE LIGHT FOLLOWED UP WITH THE INFOR OF DAY OR CORRESPOND WITH JCPHBJOFPODF BOEXBTOPMPOHFSBO MATION ±/H AND THEN ) TOOK OUR OWN EXPERIENCE /VER IT ANOTHER TIMES THAT YEAR THE LAST ½VE YEARS WE HAVE BEEJDUwJTOPUGPMMPXFEVQXJUIUIF FOR SPIRITUAL INSIGHT² TREATED A TOTAL OF INDI JOGPSNBUJPO i0I BOEUIFO 4HE PUBLISHED HISTORY OF VIDUALS WITH IBOGAINE FOR THE IBOGAINE ADMINISTRATION FOR SPECI½C PURPOSE OF BREAKING *UPPLJUBOPUIFSUJNFTUIBUZFBSGPS DRUG DEPENDENCE IS RELATIVELY A CYCLE OF DRUG DEPENDENCE CONSISTENT IN REPORTING A 4HE VAST MAJORITY OF THESE DO TQJSJUVBMJOTJHIUw SINGLE DOSE MODALITY )N OUR NOT FALL UNDER THE ±INSTANT EXPERIENCE THIS HAS PROVEN TO CURE² CATEGORY &OUR PEOPLE BE SUB OPTIMAL OR INEFFECTIVE COULD BE CATEGORIZED AS FOR MANY PEOPLE SUCH HAVING HAD EXTREMELY (OWEVER SOME TREATMENT PROFOUND EXPERIENCES WHICH PROVIDERS MUST MAXIMIZE FACILITATED COMPLETE CESSATION THE BENE½T OF A SINGLE DOSE OF THEIR DRUG DEPENDENCY AFTER A SINGLE DOSE 4HE REST HAVE BECAUSE MANY CLIENTS WILL NOT HAVE THE CHANCE TO RE DOSE REQUIRED ADDITIONAL TREATMENT OR MORE FORMAL FOLLOW UP ST WITH IBOGAINE FOLLOWING THE INITIAL TREATMENT ±$ETOXING² CARE IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THEIR GOALS ±/NE HIT WONDERS ² IT PRIOR TO TREATMENT BY TAPERING OPIATE INTAKE DOWN OVER SEEMS ARE EXCEEDINGLY RARE IN THE CENTURY A PERIOD OF MONTHS IS ONE METHOD USED TO ENSURE EASIER 4HERE ARE A VARIETY OF FACTORS WHICH MAY ACCOUNT FOR REINTEGRATION POST IBOGANE 3UBSEQUENTLY PATIENTS OFTEN THE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN INITIAL CLAIMS MADE FOR IBOGAINE RETURN TO THEIR HOME COUNTRY WHERE IBOGAINE IS A 3CHED AND SUBSEQUENT RESULTS &IRSTLY THE CATEGORIZATION OF WHAT ULE ) SUBSTANCE AND THEREFORE CANNOT BE RETREATED IF NECES CONSTITUTES A ±JUNKIE² IS HUGELY VARIABLE !LL HEROIN USERS SARY ÃÌiÀÃ4HE ±DETOXING² STRATEGY HAS BOTH PROS AND CONS BUT EVENTUALLY DEVELOP A TOLERANCE NEEDING LARGER DOSES TO EVALUATING THESE IS BEYOND THE SCOPE OF THIS ARTICLE ACHIEVE THE SAME EFFECT $AILY USE COMBINED WITH EVER INCREASING TOLERANCE RESULTS IN PHYSICAL DEPENDENCE (OW EVER THERE IS A SIGNI½CANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOMEONE !FTER AN INITIAL TREATMENT WITH IBOGAINE THE PHYSICAL WHO IS EXPERIMENTING WITH DRUGS WITHIN A SOCIAL CONTEXT DEPENDENCY IS NO LONGER THERE (OWEVER THE COMPLEX SPRINGBULLINDD !- ÓÓÊ Ê Ê>Ê«ÊÃÊ UÊ ÛÊÊÊÕÊÊiÊ 8Ê6Ê ÊÕÊÊLÊiÊÀÊ £Ê UÊ Ã«À}ÊÊÓÊäÊäÊx SERIES OF PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS THAT CAUSED SOME AND MAKE USE OF THIS TIME IN THE MOST EFFECTIVE MANNER ONE TO BECOME ADDICTED IN THE ½RST PLACE ARE STILL PRESENT POSSIBLE BECAUSE IT WILL PASS ! WEEK LATER TEN DAYS AT )BOGAINE IS NOT A ±CURE² FOR DRUG ADDICTION MOST THE WARM ¾UFFY CLOUDS WILL BREAK AND YOU WILL BE "OOSTER DOSES OF IBOGAINE (#L CAN BE EXTREMELY BEN LEFT DEALING WITH YOUR LIFE E½CIAL AND OFTEN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RELAPSE OR -ANY PEOPLE WHO ARE SELF MEDICATING CAN DERIVE SIGNIF SUCCESS )NDIVIDUALS WITH A LONG HISTORY OF BEING DRUG ICANT BENE½T FROM CONVENTIONAL MEDICATIONS WHICH CAN BE DEPENDENT WHO HAVE DETOXED FROM EXTREMELY HIGH DOSES EXTREMELY HELPFUL DURING THIS TIME PERIOD BUT THE BOTTOM OF NARCOTIC ANALGESICS WILL USUALLY HAVE AT LEAST TO LINE IS MANY PEOPLE GO FROM FEELING LIKE EVERYTHING IS POS OF THEIR WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS LIFTED AFTER THE INITIAL SIBLE TO NOTHING IS POSSIBLE 0EOPLE CRASH AND HIT REALITY RESET 4HE CONCEPT BEHIND CLEAN MAINTENANCE IS THIS 7HAT (OWEVER A FEW DAYS OUT MANY PEOPLE DERIVE TREMEN IF YOU COULD TAKE SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN DETOXED AND IS DOUS BENE½T FROM ONE°OR MORE°BOOSTER DOSES 4YPICALLY PRESENTLY DRUG FREE WHO IS TRYING TO PUT THEIR LIFE BACK A BOOSTER WILL FALL WITHIN THE ¯-G TOTAL DOSE TOGETHER AGAIN AND EXTEND THE TIME FRAME DURING WHICH /ÕiÕ«ÃRANGE !LL THE SAME PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE OBSERVED AS ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO A PERIOD OF WEEKS OR MONTHS WHEN DOING THE HIGHER DOSE OF IBOGAINE (#L ¯-G GIVING THEM TIME TO DEVELOP NEW COPING MECHANISMS FOR KG RANGE DEALING5IFDPODFQUCFIJOEDMFBONBJOUFOBODFJTWITH LIFE SOBER UIJT8IBUJGZPVDPVMEUBLFTPNFPOFXIP 4UNE UPS DIFFER FROM BOOSTERS IN INTENT AND TIMING 7HILE BOOSTERS INCREASE THE EF½CACY OF AN INITIAL FULL IBTCFFOEFUPYFE BOEJTQSFTFOUMZESVHGSFF BLOWN DOSE OF IBOGAINE (#L TUNE UPS USUALLY HAPPEN XIPJTUSZJOHUPQVUUIFJSMJGFCBDLUPHFUIFS ANYWHERE FROM SEVERAL WEEKS TO MANY MONTHS FOLLOW ING THE LAST FULL BLOWN DOSE OF IBOGAINE 4HE DOSE RANGE BHBJO BOEFYUFOEUIFUJNFGSBNFEVSJOH TENDS TO FALL WITHIN THE SAME -G CATEGORY AS WITH MOST THINGS THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES SOMEONE MAY DO XIJDIBMMUIJOHTBSFQPTTJCMFUPBQFSJPE A GRAM AS A TUNE UP AS BOOSTERS 4UNE UPS ARE USED BY PEOPLE WHO REACH THEIR GOALS PRESUPPOSING THEIR GOAL WAS PGXFFLTPSNPOUIT HJWJOHUIFNUJNFUP TO REMAIN CLEAR OF NARCOTIC ANALGESICS MAINTAIN SOBRIETY AND DISCOVER THAT THEY´RE DEPRESSED OVERLOADED STARTING EFWFMPQOFXDPQJOHNFDIBOJTNTGPSEFBMJOH TO COME UNDONE OR SIMPLY DEVELOP A DESIRE TO DO IBOGAINE AGAIN !ND FOR WHATEVER REASONS THEY WANT TO AVOID A XJUIMJGFTPCFS FULL ON PSYCHOACTIVE DOSE !NOTHER CATEGORY IS PEOPLE WHO HAVEN´T MANAGED TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS AND HAVE SLIPPED BACK INTO ACTIVE DRUG USE 4HESE INDIVIDUALS OFTEN WANT TO GET ±RESET² AGAIN BUT HAVE A STRONG AVERSION TO DOING FULL BLOWN -ALE EARLY S AND IN OVERALL GOOD HEALTH RESETS $ISLIKE OF TRIPPING AND FEAR OF FACING THE SELF MAY )NDIVIDUAL WHO HAS DONE FOUR FULL BLOWN RESETS USING IBOGAINE OVER BE STRONG DETERRENTS ! 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