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Tripping The Habit

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Ibogaine is a hallucinogenic drug originating in Africa, and widely used there amongst the Bwiti tribe (Gabon/Cameroon) in initiation ceremonies.
It is now also used informally by practitioners across the world, including quite a few in the UK, as an anti-addiction treatment. People addicted to cocaine or heroin take Ibogaine, go into a hallucinatory trance-state for up to 24 hours and find that their cravings have subsided - it's not officially recognized as a treatment, but is known to be unusually successful. This film would follow someone's journey through the Ibogaine treatment - including the trance state in which the patient is often pretty physically active - exploring issues of addiction in today's society, alternative medicine and rehabilitation.
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12 responses // Tripping The Habit

  • Hooray for alternative medicines. And hooray for everyone working in all branches of addiction absolving. Its about time we realized that methodone is not the answer. Heroin is a poison that most dont have the power to kick. This, if it works, could be an incredible gift to a world ravaged by 80's 'artist/junkie/parents'.
    iOw
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  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIN8r9rgtUM
    The potential for ibogaine is seems large. So many inmates are in prison because of drug addiction related offenses, but this seems like it has potential to turn that around. There are <a href=" http://www.ibogaine.net/drug-detox2.html">treat... centers</a> in the US that use it, and its seems like its a magic bullet for those who don't have the discipline to learn to meditate.
    rahulbrown
  • We need to push our governments into accepting things like Ibogaine as a valid treatment for drug addiction. But, big pharma has such a hold over our politicians they would do anything to strike down a safe alternative to their products which are anything but safe.
    Ayahuasca2012
  • Not to be confused with Iocaine....
    Dmitri_Molotov
  • This pod was great but I am having a problem with the video and audio sync...

    Am I the only one?
    MrMinkus
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  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/tribe/tribes/babongo/index.shtml
    Great, responsible pod from a fair and balanced perspective. There's still much to be learned about the healing effects of entheogens, but the stigma around research into psychedelics runs deep after the propagation and mass consumption of LSD during the 1960's onwards. Timothy Leary has a lot to answer for.

    For a more in depth and wide ranging yet still personal account of Iboga check out Bruce Parry's documentary program Tribe (known as Going Tribal in the United States), co-produced by the BBC and the Discovery Channel.

    The Babongo of Gabon used to be known, derogatively, as pygmies. They're still treated as second-class citizens by their neighbours. But their expertise and knowledge of the forests is unique and their use of Iboga, a powerful hallucinogenic which lies at the heart of Babongo culture, makes them famous throughout Gabon.

    Bwiti is a West Central African religion practiced by the forest-dwelling Babongo and Mitsogo people of Gabon (where it is one of the three official religions) and the Fang people of Gabon and Cameroon. Modern Bwiti is syncretistic, incorporating animism, ancestor worship and Christianity into its belief system. Bwiti use the hallucinogenic rootbark of the Tabernanthe iboga plant, specially cultivated for the religion, to induce a spiritual enlightenment, stabilize community and family structure, meet religious requirements and to solve problems of a spiritual and/or medical nature. The root bark has been used for hundreds of years as part of a Bwiti coming of age ceremony and other initiation rites and acts of healing, producing complex visions and insights anticipated to be valuable to the initiate and the chapel. The root bark or its extract are taken in doses high enough to cause vomiting and ataxia as common side effects.
    dearmat23
  • I think this is pretty cool, and I'm not sure of the exact statistics, but before it was criminalized LSD was one of the most effective treatments of alcoholism that we have ever recorded so this seems like it could be something similar.
    torybart
  • someone should mention this lil discovery to the winehouses and the like...!
    rambles
  • Cool doc Ed! I've heard about similar drugs that has the same effect. Great to get the knowledge out there!
    PWillemse
  • as a parent who has a daughter who has an addiction to hard drugs, i'm on a low income and would trully love to get her on a programe useing ibogaine as an alternitive to methadone. after a piriod of one year she has yet again sercomed to the dreaded white powder. could anyone please tell me who or where i might find the answer to the question

    where can i get help?
    ruthie123

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