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Subject: Re: Drug War Update.
Date: 10/04/2000
Author: Darlene <darlene@...>
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I apologize for taking the liberty of addressing you. I am a=20
38-year-old Portuguese male living in Carcavelos, 16 km or 10 miles=20 away
from the center of Lisbon, Portugal.
 
=46ive years ago I started dating a heroin addict. She was smoking=20 between
0.25g and 1g of heroin per day (heroin probably only 25%=20 pure). Like most
of society, I had heard about hard drugs and=20 addiction but knew very
little about it. Because she told me she=20 wanted to quit but did not have
family support or the financial=20 means, I helped her by taking her to at
least 3 doctors. We tried the=20 two ways that were at our disposal at the
time (3-4 years ago):=20 (1)detox with a cocktail of pills for a week and
then naltrexone, and=20 (2) sending Sandra to a kind of concentration camp in
Cordoba,=20 southwestern Spain, called RETO, run by a religious order with
very=20 hard and strict disciplinary methods. But she always relapsed, one=20
way or the other. And I had to keep on buying her heroin, going into=20 the
gutter with her to get it, risking getting busted by a=20
non-friendly police. She had never tried cocaine, though.
 
One night she told me channel 2 TV would transmit a documentary=20 produced
by Danish television on an innovative cure for drug=20
addiction. The film went on air at 3 a.m., when most people are=20 asleep.
That's when we learned of HEANTOS, a blend of herbs invented=20 by Vietnamese
Tran Khuong Dan. They claimed such wonderful results I=20 was enthusiastic
about it. So I decided to start surfing the=20
internet, looking for more information on the subject. I found lots=20 of
data, which were later wiped out. A month later heantos was=20 prohibited for
reasons which are still obscure. I believe they wanted=20 to regain control
over the product, since it is being investigated at=20 John Hopkins with a
UNDP subsidy of $US 400,000 + $US 100,000 from a=20 private corp. But I as
tried to get hold of some heantos for Sandra,=20 with whom I was living with
already, I was lucky to correspond with=20 an Australian called Tamara
Pisera, who told me of ibogaine and gave=20 me Nick Sandberg's contact.
 
Before going deeper into ibogaine, we still managed to buy another=20 natural
medicine from Vietnam, named HUFUSA, which I got from a guy=20 in Helsinki,
Finland. Hufusa was the Vietnamese's government=20
alternative to Heantos. Sandra tried it and it was like doing it cold=20
turkey; it simply didn't work. She was getting very disappointed and=20 kept
on telling me she really wanted to quit once and for all, but=20 she needed a
little help.
That=B4s when I finally contacted Nick and asked him for ibogaine. He=20 sent
me 1.5g of ibogaine HCl and asked me to read some treatment=20 guidelines,
since we were doing this on our own. It was just the two=20 of us. Twenty
minutes later, she got up from bed and grabbed me=20 desperately and said,
"Rui, I think I'm going to die!". She was=20 beginning to have the Near Death
Experience, which I had didn't know=20 about. I confess I was very
frightened. I kept looking at her=20 constantly, for the next 8 hours, to
make sure she breathed. Twenty=20 hours after taking the ibogaine, she woke
up. Five hours later, we=20 were both having fun driving karts in the
Algarve. Sandra cured=20 herself forever. Six months later, she took 0.5g of
the same lot of=20 ibogaine, as a maintenance.
 
Very briefly, this is what happened. We are now living very well=20 together
and have an 19-day-old baby boy. All thanks to ibogaine and=20 the people who
helped.




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Subject: Re: Drug War Update.
Date: 10/04/2000
Author: Darlene <darlene@...>
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Meanwhile, I have been reading your book "Ibogaine - The Staten=20 Island
Report". It is absolutely brilliant and amazing how every=20 single little
detail is described. Only now I found out Nick had your=20 e-mail address.
Because I am writing something on ibogaine which I=20 intend to divulge, and
the book raised me some questions, I wrote to=20 Howard Lotsof asking a few
things. Since he didn't answer, I thought=20 perhaps he didn't want to reveal
his opinion. Now Nick told me he has=20 been ill and has not corresponded
much lately. Certainly you are the=20 best position to help me. I have some
doubts concerning Frank Vocci=20 and Herb Kleber. These two were responsible
for obstacles and delays=20 in ibogaine development. However, I see their
names as participants=20 in last year's Ibogaine Conference held in NYU
School of Medicine.=20 What can I think about them? Are they in favour of
ibogaine today?
 
As for methadone being called "adolphine", I read this is not=20 correct.
Methadone was release into the market with the commercial=20 name of
"dolophine". I am not an advocate of methadone, though.=20 Methadone was
officially admitted as a therapy in Portugal in the mid=20 90's, but only two
years ago did the politicians and media publicize=20 it, partly due to the
mayor of Lisbon, Jo=E3o Soares, son of former=20 president of the republic
Mario Soares, wanting to show the people he=20 was interested in solving the
problem of addicts in Lisbon. In=20 Portugal we have official figures of
50-60,000 addicts, though it is=20 estimated that drugs afflict near 100,000.
For a population which is=20 a little less than 10 million, the status quo is
not very bright.
 
With best regards,
 
Rui Sim=F5es
relsimoes@...
 
=46rom: William Sarill <foozleman@...>
To: dana@...
Subject: Neuroprotection by NMDA Receptor Antagonists
Status:
 
Hi Dana. Thought you'd be interested in a paper in the lastest issue of the
Journal of Neuroscience which says that transient use of NMDA receptor
antagonists--specifically MK-801, but by implication ibogaine and harama
alkaloids--preconditions cortical neurons to withstand neurotoxic injuries,
including that brought about by oxygen-glucose deprivation
(hypoxia/hypoglycemia). A 30-minute exposure of MK-801 was sufficient to
provide neuroprotection if applied up to 96 hours before a lethal insult.
Hmm. Ninety six hours =3D 4 days. More than enough time for JC to survive,
re-awaken, and climb off the cross. For the abstract, see
<http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/19/7183>.
 
--Bill

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