The Benefit to the Long-Term Addict

As a 47-year-old recovering junkie, I'm speaking from 28 years of use, addiction and numerous attempts to recover - all culminating in the Ibogaine experience.

I have used methadone first to get high, then for detoxification and finally for maintenance. Eventually, I discovered that the worst aspect of prolonged methadone use is that even after a slow and careful detoxification by any means, one can continue to be dopesick for months or more than a year. My own experience, and those of many other older addicts, is that the fear of withdrawal is so powerful that most cannot withstand that miserable feeling for a long period. However determined one is, most finally succumb to the urge to feel better, and relapse.

The Ibogaine detoxification treatment successfully addresses this problem. After one dose, virtually all withdrawal is banished, save for some nights of insomnia and a week or two of diarrhea, the latter easily treated by over-the-counter medicine. Dopesickness, as well as one's habit, obsession, etc. become rapidly fading memories.

I know this sounds incredible, but it is not just my experience. Other Ibogaine recipients who were on methadone, as well as other opiates, tell similar stories. My cabin-mate, for instance, was on 180 mg. of methadone for five years and had the same experience.

This treatment is a miracle - and possibly the only real treatment for long-term methadone users. I found no undesirable side-effects to detract from the miraculous nature of the Ibogaine experience.

A.A., Florida