Fentanyl is a strong opioid that is used in hospitals to relieve severe pain from cancer or surgery. Over the past 10 years, it has been mixed into more of the illegal drugs that people buy on the street, because it is cheaper and more powerful than heroin or...
Imagine living with unrelenting neuropathic pain so severe that amputation seems like the only option. A group of researchers at Ambio Life Sciences embarked on a journey to find a solution for this agony, exploring the potential of an intriguing compound called...
Ambio’s co-founder Jonathan Dickinson recently returned to the community of Abyeng, home of the A2E Association in Gabon. This village has the most mature iboga farm in the world, and recently completed the first legal export of iboga from the country since all export...
Ambio’s cofounder, Jonathan Dickinson, recently published a series of case studies in the journal Anthropology of Consciousness that aims to better describe the ibogaine experience. The report highlights a sense of ‘intersubjectivity’ that many people...
In early 2014, I had the honor and pleasure of interviewing Claudio Naranjo, the late Chilean psychiatrist, about his early work with lower doses of ibogaine (which he mixed with harmaline) in the context of psychotherapy. Claudio Naranjo’s book The Healing...
A research team at Columbia University soon hopes to show whether or not ibogaine, an extract of iboga — a psychoactive West-African plant medicine — may have unique benefits in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The majority of existing research on ibogaine has...
