The Ibogaine Files

What actually happens after taking Ibogaine?

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45 mins

Explore the controversial world of ibogaine treatment, where desperate addicts travel across borders seeking a cure for addiction through a powerful psychedelic substance. Discover the success stories, tragic deaths, underground clinics, and scientific debates that have turned ibogaine into one of medicine's most mysterious treatments.

Ep 1:

The Forbidden Cure for Addiction

Meet ibogaine: a Schedule I African plant compound that may stop opioid addiction cold, and the Brooklyn addict who accidentally discovered it in 1962.

Ep 2:

Inside the Ten-Hour Reckoning

A California mechanic travels to Tijuana for a grueling ten-hour ibogaine session, revealing the terrifying, cathartic visions that patients call 'breaking open the head.'

Ep 3:

The Evidence They Won't Study

The science behind ibogaine's promising thirty-percent success rate, plus how desperate combat veterans are turning to psychedelics when the VA's treatments fail.

Ep 4:

Risk, Profit, and a Locked Door

Cardiac risks, unregulated clinics, and pharma indifference collide as we ask why an unpatentable, sixty-year-old discovery remains illegal in America while the world moves on.

Ep 5:

A Fighting Chance, Denied

Texas and Kentucky fund new trials as advocates fight for access, exposing the steep price of hope and the real lives ibogaine has quietly transformed.

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