One Magic Pill to makes you better! NOT IN THE US not profitable! [View All]

http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2005-01-06/cover.asp

When a drug gets a “schedule one” rating from the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it means mainstream medicine thinks it has high potential for abuse and no current medical value. The label also proclaims that use of the drug on humans is illegal in the United States. But that doesn’t stop it from being perfectly legal in other countries.

Enter ibogaine, a powerful hallucinogen that some say can help people break addictions to everything from heroin to prescription drugs to cigarettes. The drug, derived from the roots of a West African shrub, received its FDA ranking in the mid-1980s.

One pill makes you better American drug and alcohol addicts are going abroad in search of ibogaine, a purported miracle treatment that is banned in the United States.

The treatment is a dose of a powerful hallucinogen called ibogaine. It is derived from the roots of a shrub called Tabernanthe iboga, which grows in western Africa. Local tribespeople have used it as a peyote-like sacrament for generations. Since the 1960s, it has circulated on the margins of Western drug culture, sustained by its reputation as a potent healer. A single daylong trip on ibogaine, lore has it, can help break an addiction to heroin, cocaine, alcohol or cigarettes.

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The pharmaceutical industry doesn’t want much to do with drugs that cure addiction. Yes, millions of people in the United States are addicts, but there’s no money to be made in treatments that don’t require repeated use. “It’s not very profitable, and it’s bad public relations.”