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Where in the world is Buprenorphine?
I need to find a clinic / doctor in Washington, DC that prescribes Buprenorphine.
Any ideas of where to look?
My recovering heroin addict / methadone "clinically annoyed" boyfriend wants to get regulated on it. I've looked up a bunch of info and most of what I hear is positive.
Any comments are appreciated. THANKS! cat
Any ideas of where to look?
My recovering heroin addict / methadone "clinically annoyed" boyfriend wants to get regulated on it. I've looked up a bunch of info and most of what I hear is positive.
Any comments are appreciated. THANKS! cat
I guess Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates must be heavily invested in methadone programs, huh?
Ultram posts in the negative dissapear rapidly also,in this case the company manufacturing it had something to do with it.Nobody wants bad press and a few dollars here and there and you can do anything,Actually I was thinking Of mailing Ibogaine to people,seems it is legal in australia,just send a money order to .......... and check your letterbox.I heard someone was charging $12000 a dose?how about $25-(US) for 300mg.
it does seem rather sinister, doesn't it? Especially if what they say about Ibogaine being a one-shot cure for addiction is true. Anyone see the movie Traffic -- a brilliant depiction of the farce known as the war on drugs, the hypocrisy and greed that keeps a major paying portion of the population hopelessly addicted to drugs?
If we accept the idea that the drug business is tacitly approved of, supported by, and profited from, our very own government, why does the government feel the need to punish its very customers by throwing them in jail?
The hypocrisy of this whole situation is disillusioning to put it mildly.
COME ON ADDICTION FORUM ADMIN, SHOW SOME BALLS AND TELL US THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR DELETION OF IBOGAINE INFORMATION. GOT A PAIR? PROVE IT. GIVE US YOUR ANSWER TODAY. IF YOU DON'T YOU'RE A COWARD AND A HYPOCRITE.
If we accept the idea that the drug business is tacitly approved of, supported by, and profited from, our very own government, why does the government feel the need to punish its very customers by throwing them in jail?
The hypocrisy of this whole situation is disillusioning to put it mildly.
COME ON ADDICTION FORUM ADMIN, SHOW SOME BALLS AND TELL US THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR DELETION OF IBOGAINE INFORMATION. GOT A PAIR? PROVE IT. GIVE US YOUR ANSWER TODAY. IF YOU DON'T YOU'RE A COWARD AND A HYPOCRITE.
Sydney Australia is just about to open its first safe injecting house,they expect to get around 100-200 heroin addicts in per day,nurses will supervise injection and Narcan will be on hand for overdoses,we expect to save around at least one life per week.Businesses in the area say it will become a haven for drug dealers and took the matter to court,the judge ruled that it was morally acceptable and the Catholic church is financially backing it.
Buprenorphine(sublingual tablets) have just been added to the NHS list and unemployed can get 20 tablets for about $2-(us)more for employed,but prob less than $7-(US)
Medical Professor scorns the governments latest anti illicit drug problem? tactic(educating parents to talk to teenagers)because it does not mention Alcohol and Tobacco,the 2 most dangerous and addictive drugs.
Naltrexone programs are up and running everywhere.
Methadone is now dipensed from local Pharmacies,so nobody has to line up at some sterile clinic.
Australia does not use Hydrocodone as a painkiller.
Ms-Contin is the usual drug prescibed.
No oxycodone problem here,rarely used.
Buprenorphine(sublingual tablets) have just been added to the NHS list and unemployed can get 20 tablets for about $2-(us)more for employed,but prob less than $7-(US)
Medical Professor scorns the governments latest anti illicit drug problem? tactic(educating parents to talk to teenagers)because it does not mention Alcohol and Tobacco,the 2 most dangerous and addictive drugs.
Naltrexone programs are up and running everywhere.
Methadone is now dipensed from local Pharmacies,so nobody has to line up at some sterile clinic.
Australia does not use Hydrocodone as a painkiller.
Ms-Contin is the usual drug prescibed.
No oxycodone problem here,rarely used.
By Daniel Pinchbeck
Nov. 3, 1999 | Tabernanthe iboga is an ordinary-looking shrub found in a small area of West Africa. The bush produces simple yellow blossoms and edible orange-colored citrus fruit that is tasteless and oddly sticky. Under optimum conditions, iboga can grow into a tree rising as high as 35 feet.
Despite iboga's common appearance, in those few nations that know of it, the plant is worshipped as the source of spiritual knowledge and as a tool for accessing the wisdom of the ancestors. The root bark -- scraped off, ground into powder and eaten -- contains one of the world's most powerful, long-lasting and mysterious psychedelic agents. The tribal religion associated with iboga is called Bwiti and exists in only two equatorial countries, Gabon and Cameroon. When Bwiti shamans eat iboga, they believe they are granted the power to see the future, to heal the sick and to speak with the dead.
"The Bwiti believe that before the initiation, the neophyte is nothing," my guide, Daniel Lieberman, told me on my first morning in Gabon, as we took a cab through Libreville, the nation's capital. "Through the ceremony, you become something."
"What do you become?" I asked.
"You become a baanzi, one who knows the other world, because you have seen it with your own eyes."
"How do the Bwiti think of iboga?" I asked
"The Bwiti believe that iboga is a superconscious spiritual entity that guides mankind," he said.
I had found Lieberman, a botanist from South Africa, on the Internet, where he offered to bring Westerners to a shaman's tribal village, for a fee. "I have spent time in the rain forests of Africa east and west, Madagascar and the Amazon working with shamans, brujos, witch doctors, healers," Lieberman e-mailed me beforehand. "Iboga I feel to be the one plant that needs to be introduced to the world, and urgently."
In person, the botanist was thin and pallid, in Teva sandals and safari clothes, and quite a bit younger then I expected. He said that his ghost-white complexion was due to a nearly fatal bout of cerebral malaria. "I caught it during a Bwiti ceremony a year ago," he told me. "It took me months to recover."
This was worrisome. I had expected my guide to be robust and adventurous. Instead, he turned out to be younger then me, and shakier.
Libreville was a hot and stagnant city. Sunlight reflected off gleaming glass corporate towers, the headquarters of oil companies. Because of its oil deposits, Gabon is richer and more secure than other countries in the region. Iboga is another natural resource, but one that has yet to be exploited by the Gabonese.
"Why would the Bwiti allow me to join their sect?" I asked my guide.
"Bwiti is like Buddhism," he replied. "Anyone can join. The word 'Bwiti' simply means the experience of iboga, which is the essence of love."
Over the last decades, iboga has developed a cult following in the United States and in Europe, where it is known as ibogaine. In the West, the psychedelic is being promoted as a potential one-shot cure for treating addiction to heroin and other drugs. Some researchers believe that ibogaine has the ability to "reset the switches" of addiction, freeing addicts from withdrawal symptoms and all drug cravings for up to six months. Animal tests seem to have reinforced these claims.
In America, scientists at Harvard, New York University and elsewhere are studying the ibogaine molecule, seeking to unlock its mechanism. Later this week, on Nov. 5 and 6, the NYU School of Medicine is hosting a conference on ibogaine's potential as a treatment for drug addiction. Papers will be presented by various scientists, including Kenneth Alper, the conference director and a professor of psychiatry and neurology at NYU; Stanley Glick, chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience at Albany Medical College; and Zbigniew Binienda, a senior research scientist in the Department of Neurotoxicology at the FDA. James Fernandez, professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, will talk on the Bwiti's ritual use of ibogaine. The NYU conference symbolizes the growing worldwide interest in the healing powers of the sacred plant.
Because of this growing interest, a music magazine had agreed to pay my expenses to Africa. The trip was not without its dangers -- malaria being one of them, the intense tropical heat throughout most of the year another. It was in the jungles of Gabon that the deadly ebola virus first appeared. Then there were the hazards of trying a little-known, long-acting hallucinogen far from the nearest hospital. After iboga is in your system for a while, it must be vomited out -- producing what one study euphemistically described as "tremendous cleansings." In rare cases, Bwiti initiates have overdosed and died during the initiation.
But none of this mattered to me. I was eager to try iboga for myself. I had reached a point in my New York life where I felt spiritually stunted, morally anesthetized, psychically detached. I was losing interest -- not in anything in particular, but in everything. I sometimes felt like I could float off the surface of the planet. Sick of my own culture, my own self, I yearned for access to a different dimension. But could I be guided into the African spirit world?
Nov. 3, 1999 | Tabernanthe iboga is an ordinary-looking shrub found in a small area of West Africa. The bush produces simple yellow blossoms and edible orange-colored citrus fruit that is tasteless and oddly sticky. Under optimum conditions, iboga can grow into a tree rising as high as 35 feet.
Despite iboga's common appearance, in those few nations that know of it, the plant is worshipped as the source of spiritual knowledge and as a tool for accessing the wisdom of the ancestors. The root bark -- scraped off, ground into powder and eaten -- contains one of the world's most powerful, long-lasting and mysterious psychedelic agents. The tribal religion associated with iboga is called Bwiti and exists in only two equatorial countries, Gabon and Cameroon. When Bwiti shamans eat iboga, they believe they are granted the power to see the future, to heal the sick and to speak with the dead.
"The Bwiti believe that before the initiation, the neophyte is nothing," my guide, Daniel Lieberman, told me on my first morning in Gabon, as we took a cab through Libreville, the nation's capital. "Through the ceremony, you become something."
"What do you become?" I asked.
"You become a baanzi, one who knows the other world, because you have seen it with your own eyes."
"How do the Bwiti think of iboga?" I asked
"The Bwiti believe that iboga is a superconscious spiritual entity that guides mankind," he said.
I had found Lieberman, a botanist from South Africa, on the Internet, where he offered to bring Westerners to a shaman's tribal village, for a fee. "I have spent time in the rain forests of Africa east and west, Madagascar and the Amazon working with shamans, brujos, witch doctors, healers," Lieberman e-mailed me beforehand. "Iboga I feel to be the one plant that needs to be introduced to the world, and urgently."
In person, the botanist was thin and pallid, in Teva sandals and safari clothes, and quite a bit younger then I expected. He said that his ghost-white complexion was due to a nearly fatal bout of cerebral malaria. "I caught it during a Bwiti ceremony a year ago," he told me. "It took me months to recover."
This was worrisome. I had expected my guide to be robust and adventurous. Instead, he turned out to be younger then me, and shakier.
Libreville was a hot and stagnant city. Sunlight reflected off gleaming glass corporate towers, the headquarters of oil companies. Because of its oil deposits, Gabon is richer and more secure than other countries in the region. Iboga is another natural resource, but one that has yet to be exploited by the Gabonese.
"Why would the Bwiti allow me to join their sect?" I asked my guide.
"Bwiti is like Buddhism," he replied. "Anyone can join. The word 'Bwiti' simply means the experience of iboga, which is the essence of love."
Over the last decades, iboga has developed a cult following in the United States and in Europe, where it is known as ibogaine. In the West, the psychedelic is being promoted as a potential one-shot cure for treating addiction to heroin and other drugs. Some researchers believe that ibogaine has the ability to "reset the switches" of addiction, freeing addicts from withdrawal symptoms and all drug cravings for up to six months. Animal tests seem to have reinforced these claims.
In America, scientists at Harvard, New York University and elsewhere are studying the ibogaine molecule, seeking to unlock its mechanism. Later this week, on Nov. 5 and 6, the NYU School of Medicine is hosting a conference on ibogaine's potential as a treatment for drug addiction. Papers will be presented by various scientists, including Kenneth Alper, the conference director and a professor of psychiatry and neurology at NYU; Stanley Glick, chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience at Albany Medical College; and Zbigniew Binienda, a senior research scientist in the Department of Neurotoxicology at the FDA. James Fernandez, professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, will talk on the Bwiti's ritual use of ibogaine. The NYU conference symbolizes the growing worldwide interest in the healing powers of the sacred plant.
Because of this growing interest, a music magazine had agreed to pay my expenses to Africa. The trip was not without its dangers -- malaria being one of them, the intense tropical heat throughout most of the year another. It was in the jungles of Gabon that the deadly ebola virus first appeared. Then there were the hazards of trying a little-known, long-acting hallucinogen far from the nearest hospital. After iboga is in your system for a while, it must be vomited out -- producing what one study euphemistically described as "tremendous cleansings." In rare cases, Bwiti initiates have overdosed and died during the initiation.
But none of this mattered to me. I was eager to try iboga for myself. I had reached a point in my New York life where I felt spiritually stunted, morally anesthetized, psychically detached. I was losing interest -- not in anything in particular, but in everything. I sometimes felt like I could float off the surface of the planet. Sick of my own culture, my own self, I yearned for access to a different dimension. But could I be guided into the African spirit world?
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