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African shrub may help drug withdrawal
    #1512218 - 05/01/03 05:47 PM (20 years, 10 months ago)

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African shrub may help drug withdrawal
US scientists are investigating derivatives of a compound from an African shrub that is said to cure drug addicts of their habit, reports New Scientist magazine.


Ibogaine is a compound that comes from the root of the plant Tabernanthe iboga, found in Gabon, West Africa. Followers of the Bwiti religion use it in ceremonies for its vision-giving properties. But in the early 1960s, ibogaine became associated with reducing drug cravings among heroin addicts attempting to withdraw.

Although banned in the US as a schedule 1 drug - it is classed alongside heroin - some researchers say that ibogaine is "worth investigating" as an alternative to methadone to help heroin addicts avoid the effects of withdrawal.

Dr Stanley Glick, a neuropharmacologist at New York's Albany Medical Center, studied the way ibogaine binds to a range of receptors in the brain's nerve endings. He has now teamed up with Dr Martin Kuehne from the University of Vermont to look at two of ibogaine's molecular cousins that have fewer side effects.

In research into 18-methoxycoronaridine (18-MC) - a synthetic relative of ibogaine - they discovered that rats administered with the compound reduced the amount of drugs they self-administered and had less severe withdrawal symptoms.

Dr Deborah Mash, a neuropharmacologist at the University of Miami Medical Center, has also carried out ibogaine trials in the past, and says that some patients who took the treatment have remained drug free for as long as six years.

Now Dr Mash has found that noribogaine - a natural metabolite of ibogaine - helps addicted rodents stop themselves from self-administering drugs. She believes noribogaine locks onto the mu-opoid receptor - the main binding site for morphine - and stifles the stimulus that the drug provides.

But Frank Vocci, from the US National Institute on Drug Abuse in Maryland, told New Scientist that while there were "striking stories" of drug addicts who have been helped by ibogaine, there were other anecdotes describing people who did not quit their habit and even died while taking the compound.




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Re: African shrub may help drug withdrawal [Re: motaman]
    #1520607 - 05/04/03 10:04 PM (20 years, 10 months ago)

I read a interesting trip report on Ibogaine at erowid


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