A Foundation for a Drug-Free Future
Prior to doing Ibogaine, I had tried
pretty much every opiate detox on the planet. While all these methods work
to various extents - this isn't saying too much. All you really need to get
off opiates is an empty room and time. Heroin addiction wasn't my problem,
it was my solution. My problem is the fact that I've come undone psychically,
mentally and spiritually. Even after heroin stopped "working" (taking it to
get normal and function), it still provided an emotional anesthetic, killed
my feelings, and stopped the noise in my head.
When all of this gets stripped away, I always felt I needed quadruple bypass surgery and someone handed me a Band-Aid. Prior to participating in Healing Transitions' Ibogaine program, my self-medication had risen to a daily intake of heroin, methadone and Xanax with an occasional drink thrown into the mix.
With Ibogaine, the entire process of withdrawal is over within about an hour. It's unlike anything else I have experienced. On a physical level, what occurs amounts to a miracle. Your habit is simply non-existed and you're reset to a pre-addiction modality. There are no cravings afterwards.
This sets the stage for the "visionary" phase of the experience. Points of commonality participants have shared include: being in a space where you're confronted with all of yourself - whether you call this the subconscious, superego, whatever; it's a few hundred years worth of therapy with a really good therapist. You're forced to deal with what's inside, to come to terms with who and what you are, and to process why you've taken actions that led you here in the first place.
You also come in contact with the basic, underlying principles that govern your personal existence. In short, you reestablish a connection to your own spirituality - whatever this might mean to you.
When you come back down to earth, you're in a highly suggestible state and open to "imprinting." The Healing Transitions staff is aware of this and work with you to build the foundation for a drug-free future. Again, there is no single correct solution or answer regarding what these beliefs should be.
Heroin doesn't feel good - it feels like nothing. When you're in agony, numbness is like the hand of God passing over you. If you process the pain, and actually experience what it's like to feel good again, then desensitization isn't an improvement. For the first time in a very long time, heroin doesn't seem that seductive to me.
I can honestly say that without Ibogaine, it's unlikely I would be clean. Instead of being drug-free longer since roughly the age of 13, I would be stuck in an endless cycle of detoxing; re-realizing "Ya know, this really hurts a lot." Talking about this in groups or with shrinks doesn't cut it for me. My reaction has always been forget it, where's the dope.
D.F., Pig's Knuckle, OH
When all of this gets stripped away, I always felt I needed quadruple bypass surgery and someone handed me a Band-Aid. Prior to participating in Healing Transitions' Ibogaine program, my self-medication had risen to a daily intake of heroin, methadone and Xanax with an occasional drink thrown into the mix.
With Ibogaine, the entire process of withdrawal is over within about an hour. It's unlike anything else I have experienced. On a physical level, what occurs amounts to a miracle. Your habit is simply non-existed and you're reset to a pre-addiction modality. There are no cravings afterwards.
This sets the stage for the "visionary" phase of the experience. Points of commonality participants have shared include: being in a space where you're confronted with all of yourself - whether you call this the subconscious, superego, whatever; it's a few hundred years worth of therapy with a really good therapist. You're forced to deal with what's inside, to come to terms with who and what you are, and to process why you've taken actions that led you here in the first place.
You also come in contact with the basic, underlying principles that govern your personal existence. In short, you reestablish a connection to your own spirituality - whatever this might mean to you.
When you come back down to earth, you're in a highly suggestible state and open to "imprinting." The Healing Transitions staff is aware of this and work with you to build the foundation for a drug-free future. Again, there is no single correct solution or answer regarding what these beliefs should be.
Heroin doesn't feel good - it feels like nothing. When you're in agony, numbness is like the hand of God passing over you. If you process the pain, and actually experience what it's like to feel good again, then desensitization isn't an improvement. For the first time in a very long time, heroin doesn't seem that seductive to me.
I can honestly say that without Ibogaine, it's unlikely I would be clean. Instead of being drug-free longer since roughly the age of 13, I would be stuck in an endless cycle of detoxing; re-realizing "Ya know, this really hurts a lot." Talking about this in groups or with shrinks doesn't cut it for me. My reaction has always been forget it, where's the dope.
D.F., Pig's Knuckle, OH