Hallucinogen to be tested as cure for opiate addiction

[Otto]

Claudio Naranjo writes about Ibogain in his book  "The Healing Journey".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Naranjo

2010/7/29 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/29/hallucinogen-to-be-t.html
>
> Ibogaine, a hallucinogen derived from an African plant, is used
> (illegally) as a cure for opiate addiction. This month, the
> Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Research will test the
> effectiveness of Ibogaine on heroin addicts.
>
> Popular Science has a brief article about the upcoming trial:
>
> As great as ibogaine seems, no one knows exactly how effective it is
> as a treatment,” says Valerie Mojieko, the director of clinical
> research for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic
> Research (MAPS), a privately funded Massachusetts-based nonprofit. So
> starting this month, MAPS will enlist Clare Wilkins, the director of
> Pangea Biomedics, to run the first long-term study to gauge the drug’s
> lasting effects at her clinic in Mexico (where patients already pay
> $5,000 for the treatment). She will treat 20 to 30 heroin addicts and,
> for the next year, MAPS will subject them to psychological and drug
> tests to quantify ibogaine’s effectiveness.
>