Comments on: Drug Addiction

By: Diane Dutcher

Diane Dutcher — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:34:23 +0000

Please look up Ibogaine online and study the testimonials and information about it. I believe people do make the choice for the first dose of drugs, but I then believe that the brain craves the substance, and the person addicted has a hard time stopping. I believe some peoples brains react more strongly than others. Some may be able to just smoke, drink, do drug or not, but other people seem to be addicted from the first time they indulge. I believe if people could understand the feeling of addiction before their first indulgence, most would never take the first dose, hit, whatever you call it.

IBOGAINE has been proven to stop addiction. During the hours it is in a person’s system, it can, in some cases cause hallucinations, flashes of insight, etc. BUT, is is not a high that anyone would take for fun.

This is my testimony of this substance. My daughter was held down and shot up with heroin the first time. She didn’t fit any profile for tendency to want drugs. The man who did this told everyone she was his girlfriend and took her on a two year trip through hell. Many times she’d come down from the high and call me desperately after getting away from him. Many times I’d go to meet her and pick her up, only to find he’d found her first. He made her shoplift for his drug money, he beat her for trying to escape from him. I spend many nights out on the streets talking to addicts, many hated this man and would try to help find my daughter. On the two occasions when we sucessfully got my daughter back, he broke into our home and took her in the middle of the night. I have watched my daughter go through the “kicking” the habit, actual kicking and sweating and flailing. I have seen her weight go down 50 lbs, and seen her fear. She slept in the forest, under bridges, etc.

I searched the internet for cures. All could stop the use, but not remove the craving. Finally I read about Ibogaine. I got in touch with a provider outside the US and got my daughter there. She had an EKG to make sure she could stand the treatment, a test dosage, and then the treatment. I waited in my hotel room for her return. The next morning she walked into my room, and said, I don’t know if the treatment worked, i didn’t have any hallucinations. I looked at my daughter, who was three days into heroin withdrawal. By this time she would have been sweating, flailing, kicking and begging for help. But, my daughter was off the drugs, no withdrawal symptoms, I told her, look at yourself, you’re at three days off, and we both were amazed. Off heroin with no craving, no withdrawal symptoms, amaziing. We moved her many states away from this man’s reach, and she is back to a normal life. THIS IS THE PROBLEM… this is any amazing substance, yet it’s illegal. Drug companies aren’t interested in bringing it to market as a drug you take once to get off drugs. A researcher if florida is trying to figure out how to “dumb it down” so drug companies would jump to make it legal and produce a form of it a person would have to take a few pills of every day the rest of their lives. This move of making it illegal is criminal. Thousand of people suffering from alcohol, cigarette, illegal drugs addiction could be living normal, happy lives, so simply. Mainstream therapists want to require therapy after treatment. Some could use this, but most addicts just need a way to stop the craving and they’ll stay clean. Ibogaine saved my daughter’s life. The only after care that would have helped her was having laws to support keeping the scum that addicted her away from her, we had to fight that battle ourselves. Why not a law that punishes the person who sticks the first needle in my child’s arm. It should be assualt with a deadly weapon. Many people start drugs on purpose, not knowing the hell they are making of their lives. Ibogaine gives them a second change at life. Our laws makes getting off drugs with Iboigaine illegal. This needs to be changed. Having to go out of the country to get treatment at $5000- 15,000 for an herb that can be purchased in many countries for $120 is insane. I was asked how I could put my daughter in danger of dying from a dose of ibogaine, more people die from legal medications in the US I told them, and my daughter was dying from heroin, it was her chance to live, and it worked. I recommend it highly. For those who think people can just stop drugs, like I used to think, I tell you this two year trip through hell saving my daughter educated me and opened my eyes. I want to scream it from the roof tops, legalize iboigaine.

By: S

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:36:05 +0000

Addiction is a problem caused by a drug, not a problem caused by an individual. By that, I mean if anyone takes a drug long enough, their body will become used to it – habituated – they are then addicted. When they stop, they will have withdrawl symptoms which can be horrendous, then they will understandably want to use the drug again. Simple as that. Anyone will become dependent on steroids the first time they use them, for example, which is why a descending dose is given for days after a therapeutic dose (as used for poison ivy) … it’s tapering off an addiction. Ad it’s the same thing. Habituation. The reason we’re not making any progress with addiction is because we’re blaming everything but what is actually the problem.

By: jeff ferrani

jeff ferrani — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:19:58 +0000

Some more tips would be great. Any more information and experiences are appreciated.

By: Sharon Brodsky

Sharon Brodsky — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:19:19 +0000

Good Morning,

I do not think alcoholism is a choice. My 45 year old son recently died, after trying for 2 years to stop drinking. Oddly, when he was autopsied, his blood alcohol level was .01, and only beer was found in his house. Doctor thought he was trying to stop again when his heart went into arythimia.

There has to be a cure for this disease, so everyone afflicted does not end like my son. A tragic waste.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:27:20 +0000

This guy is an idiot. Does he think that people that are alcoholic and addicts chose to spend their money and lose everything family and material objects by choice…PLEASE…

If people could just STOP then this would not be an epidemic in the worlld today.

I wish he could set in on an AA meeting a hear some of those tells, those people do not wake up on morning and say piss on my life I am going to ruin it. WHAT IS NEXT. Come on people…Heart Attack is a choice? We should just not have one…lol

By: Sid

Sid — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:53:27 +0000

As a former, long-term addict I have to say that he is exactly right. To say that I was not fully responsible for my actions during my drug use, which were more than a little bit selfish and cruel, would be a lie. I smoked crack. I spent a lot of time in the Tenderloin in S.F. I blew all of our money and didn’t careuntil I stopped and my head cleared. I had a 100k a year job….gone. I now make half of that. I had the respect of those that love me, almost gone. But, when the fork in the road appeared in front of me, I quit. I chose the love of my wife and kids over crack. I almost didn’t, but I did. I had the freedom to choose and I chose to change. I had quit drugs for over 20 years and started again. The fact is that it is much harder to stay off of drugs than quit, at least at first. The reason is that the guilt one feels can be suffocating. If you can get past that last excuse to fail you have a great chance at success.

By: Judy & Frank B

Judy & Frank B — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:58 +0000

Yes a “normal” person will br able to do just what Dr. Heyman believes, People use because they don’t want to feel, so they numb their feelings and self medicate. There are so many Sociological aspects to addiction which many of which are taught by society. the choice of using is the start of the first phase of addiction, people experiment. Then they start the path of euphoric recall, chasing the feeling of euforia takes an addict to that quest for the original feeling, it becomes an automatic action. The basic description of addiction is repeted behaviors without reguard to concequences. Choice plays a part in addiction, but many of them cannot afford to get therapy, the majority don’t even realize they have underlying core issues. Multiple abuse issues in family’s of all socioeconimic groups cause the children of these family’s to not know what “normal” is it’s all they know so to say it’s a choice is a doesn’t take into account why you are making that choice. So it is not as simple as choising to use or not to use, it’s more of a defence mechanisim to not feel. Untill these so called “normal” people stop placing unrealistic expectations on society as a whole you’re going to have addiction.

By: Mary Lou

Mary Lou — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:34 +0000

Whoever wrote this book sounds like an idiot who has never worked in the field of addiction….the people I see in my workplace at inpatient substance abuse center lose their houses, kids, and families. They don’t “weigh” the costs and benefits. They have an illness which causes them to compulsively use even at the risk of going to jail or losing their children. People who do NOT have the disease of addiction may be able to use in their younger years and then stop when they get married and have a family. That is the difference between NON addicts who abuse drugs for a period of time, and people who actually have the brain disease of addiction.

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:22:25 +0000

I think some so called addicts respond to normal behavior mod. stuff, but others abuse until they lo0se everything. The latter ones are the ones who are so difficult to treat.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:42:07 +0000

The United States is schizophrenic about drugs.
schizophrenia is not multiple personaity disorder opr having multiple personalitys, get it right your using the term wrong