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Dr. Alberto Sola is one of the world’s leading experts in medically-based ibogaine treatment; he has more clinical experience with safe and effective ibogaine administration than any other M.D. in the world today.
Last Updated on October 24, 2017 by Dr. Alberto Solà
As people realize that opioid addiction is a crisis, ibogaine has been attracting more attention around the world. If you’ve been wondering what exactly ibogaine is, read on to learn why it’s a totally unique solution to addiction.
Ibogaine: the big pharma landscape
- Although pharmaceutical companies take a leading role in the drug addiction landscape, they actually offer few true solutions
- Pharmaceutical drug “treatments” are basically legal drug replacements and do not cure addiction
- Profitable maintenance medications ignore the underlying psychobiology of addiction and substitute one highly addictive substance for another
- Ibogaine is not a replacement addiction
The history of ibogaine
- Ibogaine occurs naturally in the wild in plants
- It is a psychoactive indole alkaloid that has traditionally been used by indigenous people in Western Africa
- Low doses don’t produce “drug trips,” but fight thirst, hunger, and fatigue
- Higher doses are used for coming of age and spiritual initiation ceremonies
- Ibogaine hydrochloride (ibogaine HCl) is the plant’s active ingredient
- Ibogaine HCl was first extracted in 1901
Traditional spiritual use of iboga and ibogaine
- Traditional spiritual iboga use includes ingesting large quantities of iboga root bark for a psychoactive effect
- Side-effects include “purging,” similar to Ayahuasca
- Ibogaine is one of many active compounds that can be found in the wild, which means results in non-clinical settings can be unpredictable
The clinical ibogaine treatment
- In a clinical setting, “ibogaine” means ibogaine HCl
- Ibogaine HCl actually interrupts addiction
- At Clear Sky Recovery, we use ibogaine HCl from a cGMP lab, that is 99.8 percent pure.
- Our protocols call for staggered doses of ibogaine
- The first dose is a higher “flood” dose
- Two additional ibogaine boosters ensure no withdrawal or craving remains
Find out more about ibogaine
- Contact us at Clear Sky to learn more