Ok. Here's what I like so much about this piece. I've read all kinds of things on psychedelics - The Trip Treatment, How To Change Your Mind, and so on. Ibogaine always shows up off in the margins - like this is the most powerful psychedelic but it's too scary to try. That kind of thing. It's really nice to have it be talked about just regularly, like here's a guy, he's not doing well, ibogaine helps him out. So anyway. Cool. Cheers.
Well. It seems like there are some big claims from ibogaine. That may be the problem. It just kind of doesn't pass the smell test that a psychedelic plant medicine would cure heroin addictions. Ya know?
I know what you mean, but I've seen it with my own eyes. And there is compelling data stretching back years. It's really not some fringe thing. It's very real and very effective.
I still have ashes in my mouth (heart,eyes) from the mid-afternoon call dec 27th 2018. I’m in PDX. Mindy calls me from the Philly Coroners office. This is where they have taken her son Nick. I didn’t know she was calling from there,obviously. But now that I know that’s the picture I conjure when I think of this which is often. What did I know ? I Knew she went up to Philly to see if she could find him. Find Nick. And I guess she did.
When I started reading about the Opioid epidemic @2004 it was as a disconcerted observer of the “Current Affairs” “stack of New Yorkers on the bedside” variety. Accustomed to the genial warnings of doom that emanated from my literary grazings. Like someone accustomed to flood warnings coming it nothing.
suddenly, in seconds it seemed, the water was lapping at the back stair. Since Nick there have so many many many others. I remember how it’s like AIDS when it flooding the lower east side - all us writers and creatives living there cheap frenetically - then, all this dying. There was a fair amount of heroin then too but we didn’t have specific feelings about that. It just was part of the general vibe of decay we felt so present to, coming out in different ways among us. Some better. Some worse. We green. the first volunteers to the newest war.
I loved this piece so much because there have been a lot of hopeless tears cried over this and since I’ve heard them live and raw I can report even if you are not directly involved it guts you forever. This problem needs hope and this seems promising to incredible. Even if it’s half as good as the claims here that’s stunning. I love your writing
Kyra, what a beautiful tribute. Thank you so much for sharing. "Ashes in mouth, heart, eyes" is the right way to put it. So many lives lost. Each one a whole world.
Kyra, really appreciate this. And, yes, echoing what Isabel said. The opioid epidemic has been a nightmare. It's really hard to take in just how complicit the pharmaceutical industry has been in it - and how resistant to any viable alternatives. Everybody involved with ibogaine always cautions that it's "not a magic bullet," "not a cure," etc. But the success rates with it are really astonishing. It's crazy that it's barely known and that it's illegal in the U.S. Thank you so much for the note.
Lot to process here. Keep it up.
Ok. Here's what I like so much about this piece. I've read all kinds of things on psychedelics - The Trip Treatment, How To Change Your Mind, and so on. Ibogaine always shows up off in the margins - like this is the most powerful psychedelic but it's too scary to try. That kind of thing. It's really nice to have it be talked about just regularly, like here's a guy, he's not doing well, ibogaine helps him out. So anyway. Cool. Cheers.
Well. It seems like there are some big claims from ibogaine. That may be the problem. It just kind of doesn't pass the smell test that a psychedelic plant medicine would cure heroin addictions. Ya know?
I know what you mean, but I've seen it with my own eyes. And there is compelling data stretching back years. It's really not some fringe thing. It's very real and very effective.
Thank you Dora, really appreciate the note.
I still have ashes in my mouth (heart,eyes) from the mid-afternoon call dec 27th 2018. I’m in PDX. Mindy calls me from the Philly Coroners office. This is where they have taken her son Nick. I didn’t know she was calling from there,obviously. But now that I know that’s the picture I conjure when I think of this which is often. What did I know ? I Knew she went up to Philly to see if she could find him. Find Nick. And I guess she did.
When I started reading about the Opioid epidemic @2004 it was as a disconcerted observer of the “Current Affairs” “stack of New Yorkers on the bedside” variety. Accustomed to the genial warnings of doom that emanated from my literary grazings. Like someone accustomed to flood warnings coming it nothing.
suddenly, in seconds it seemed, the water was lapping at the back stair. Since Nick there have so many many many others. I remember how it’s like AIDS when it flooding the lower east side - all us writers and creatives living there cheap frenetically - then, all this dying. There was a fair amount of heroin then too but we didn’t have specific feelings about that. It just was part of the general vibe of decay we felt so present to, coming out in different ways among us. Some better. Some worse. We green. the first volunteers to the newest war.
I loved this piece so much because there have been a lot of hopeless tears cried over this and since I’ve heard them live and raw I can report even if you are not directly involved it guts you forever. This problem needs hope and this seems promising to incredible. Even if it’s half as good as the claims here that’s stunning. I love your writing
Kyra, what a beautiful tribute. Thank you so much for sharing. "Ashes in mouth, heart, eyes" is the right way to put it. So many lives lost. Each one a whole world.
With love,
Isabel
Kyra, really appreciate this. And, yes, echoing what Isabel said. The opioid epidemic has been a nightmare. It's really hard to take in just how complicit the pharmaceutical industry has been in it - and how resistant to any viable alternatives. Everybody involved with ibogaine always cautions that it's "not a magic bullet," "not a cure," etc. But the success rates with it are really astonishing. It's crazy that it's barely known and that it's illegal in the U.S. Thank you so much for the note.