Showing posts with label drug addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drug addiction. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Against heroin addiction...


Heroin addiction is on the rise these days amongst youngsters as well as many others in the older age group. Treatment of drug addiction is usually considered to be a long process which leads to either a long span of withdrawal symptoms or other complications to the patients. Ibogaine heroin treatment is one of such treatments, which is used against drug addiction. It is the anti-addictive properties of ibogaine that eases this process to lessening heroin addiction and reducing it totally after a while.

Heroin and its addiction:
Commonly known as an addictive drug, heroin infact was initially introduced as a non addictive form of morphine and was used for curing cough. It is also called as diamorphine and was synthesised for the first time in 1874 as a product by Bayer pharmaceuticals. Though using heroin on a regular basis helps increase tolerance levels, but too much of a dose can lead to imbalance psychologically as well as dependency and habituation physically. This means that your normal functions would also require a boost of opioids to work. If you happen to miss even one dose, the consequences can be painful and would create an uneasy situation for the person.
Many people try and fail to kick the habit of heroin dependency a lot of times. But if it is left half way, the major problem they face is a feeling of loneliness and relative uneasiness for a longer period. Many people even relapse into the same phase of dependency.

Ibogaine heroin treatment:
Ibogaine is a substance known majorly for its anti addictive properties. This is used for helping drug addicts overcome their addiction. It is manufactured from an African shrub Tabernathe iboga and is a nerve stimulant. It blocks dopamine and helps a patient overcome heroin addiction faster without leaving much of the withdrawal symptoms and carvings. The detox offered by ibogaine is pretty mild and efficient. Along with major symptoms, ibogaine also helps heroin addicts to overcome PAWS (post-acute withdrawal syndrome).

Post treatment:
Taking only the treatment won’t be enough. One needs to take care even after the treatment to systematically eliminate the habituation of heroin. Mostly the treatment is 95% successful, but there are chances in a few cases that the heroin dependency might relapse. Ibogaine is definitely helpful, but the main catch here is, Ibogaine heroin treatment needs to be continued for quite a while, regularly and in needed amounts. If it needs the person to increase or decrease the dosage of ibogaine, then that should be done without fail. Withdrawing the treatment in between or skipping a few doses will complicate matters further and may lead to anxiety, hyperactivity, tremors, pale face, slow responses etc.


Ibogaine is one of the best solutions offered by pharmacology in the past and is continuing even today in modern era. Proper medical advice and adequate amount of ibogaine for heroin is very beneficial for the addicted person on long term basis. Getting the habit totally out is extremely necessary and ibogaine does just that, without side effects.

Ibogaine detoxification from drugs


What is Ibogaine
Ibogaine is a substance found from an African rainforest shrub called as Tabernanthe iboga. It is believed to be posseesing anti addictive properties and is a natural nerve stimulator. Most of the treatments held for curing drug addiction comprise of the dosage of ibogaine. Ibogaine in fact has been also used by the native tribes of Africa since decades as a means to stay alert and combat hunger and thirst. It seems to not only show reduction in drug dependency, but at it also tends to lower the withdrawal symptoms or their intensity. Patients treated under the usage of ibogaine show faster results which are long term and rarely suffer any kind of side effects. The entire process of helping patient come out of drug dependency is ibogaine detox. One more powerful substance used in this process is Ibogaine hydrochloride.

Ibogaine HCl
Ibogaine hydrochloride (HCl) is called as Lambarene and is believed to be more powerful than plain ibogaine. This is specifically extracted from the root bark of the African plant. This substance is considered to be very rare as it is extracted from the bark by hand by the process of de-barking and is extremely time consuming. So 1 kilogram of bark would produce approximately 1-1.5 grams of ibogaine HCl. This makes the substance a little high priced for treatments.
There are many form of ibogaine which can be made available. Different forms can give you different types of results which may or may not be long term. But specifically for ibogaine detox, only lambarene is used as it shows high end results of opioid withdrawal without side effects.

Use for treatments:
Unlike normal ibogaine dosages, ibogaine hydrochloride shows faster and more sustainable effects. The withdrawal symptoms are much mild than usual treatments. If provided with proper aftercare, the patients seem to respond positively to the rehab procedures and show less possibilities of an anxiety attack, hyperactivity, violence due to no drugs or even relapse in certain cases. The possibility of a relapse is reduced drastically due to ibogaine detoxification. The process aims at systematic and step by step detoxification of drugs as well as their minutest precipitations in your body. This ensures that the urge to be dependent on drugs is lessened more and more each passing day. The planned dosages do not leave any side effect and if the medication is continued regularly as per the need, it yields much faster results.
The minute process and scarce availability of Ibogaine hydrochloride makes ibogaine detox a very expensive affair. A single dose can be quite expensive in comparison to other treatments. The main reason for this is the importance of this substance but low production causing scarcity. Scientists believe to clone ibogaine in order to reduce tree barks being cut down rapidly and getting more amount of ibogaine hydrochloride. This will also make the treatments cheaper than the current situation and all the drug dependent people can benefit on a much larger scale than the current scenario.

Ibogaine aftercare: The effective post treatment phase


When you look at people who are addicted to drugs, there seems to be a common misconception in mind that these people either need a lifetime rehab or their life seems waste to you. But such is not the case, given the increasing number of facilities and healthcare options for almost all the various disorders, conditions and diseases, drug addiction especially that of cocaine and heroin can now be curbed at a much earlier stage, thanks to development in pharmacology. The scientists have now started using an substance called as ibogaine, again, for treatments against drug addiction. It was once used very frequently, before being banned for a while. Let us know about treatments of Ibogaine for drug addiction and Ibogaine aftercare.
About ibogaine
Prepared from the stems and leaves of an African shrub called Tabernanthe iboga, this substance is been used by the natives of Africa since a long time. Their main purpose initially was to use it for overcoming hunger and thirst and combating fatigue. It is from there that we can say that ibogaine has nerve stimulating properties. It is a psychoactive indole alkaloid which occurs naturally. It was taken off the market in 1967, before which it was in the form of lambarene, as a physical and mental stimulant and anti depressant.

Ibogaine treatment
Ibogaine treatment involves systematic dosages of the substance to the person who has drug dependency. It is believed to work maximum on those who have heroin and cocaine addictions. It boosts the entire system of the patient and makes him gain more self control against drug dependency. The cravings as well as withdrawal symptoms like trembling, anxiety, hyperactivity or slow responses can be curbed down to almost 95% with the help of ibogaine treatment. Many people tend to believe that a few sessions of this treatment is enough to help a person rehabilitate from his drug addiction phase, but what is more important is his care even after the treatment is over.

Post treatment
This phase, known as Ibogaine aftercare, is considered to be the most important stage once the treatment against drug dependency is completed through the use of ibogaine. What mostly makes the patient go into the previous phase of addiction, or relapse of condition as we call it, is majorly due to being in constant contact with the people, places or things with which their drug use is associated. Once the treatment is through, care has to be taken so that these patients do not come in direct contact with their past routine of drug addiction through any means.

In this phase, once the people are taken away from places of their routine life, they focus and concentrate more on the treatment and come out of the addiction faster than otherwise. Many people tend to have an underlying streak of other related disorders too like anxiety or bipolar disorder. But aftercare makes sure that the person is given total attention to and there is no scope left for any kind of relapse.