African drugs, radical solutions for drug addicts

A hallucinogenic substance called Ibogaine, which is extracted from a plant in Africa, appears to cause the reduction and disappearance of the symptom of addiction to heroin, cocaine and alcohol.

Since the 1960s, a group of scientists and former drug addicts have been calling for a radical way to treat drug addiction, a hallucinogenic substance called Ibogaine, which is extracted from a plant in Africa and which appears to causes the reduction and disappearance of the symptom of addiction to heroin, cocaine and alcohol.

Doctor Anwar Jeewa from South Africa offered a radical solution, the hallucinogenic drug used in tribal ceremonies in Central Africa. He estimates that about 1,000 people have been treated with Ibogaine and have had success, but conventional medicine still does not recognize this method.

A clinic has been open in the Netherlands since the 1980s using this drug to combat drug addiction, and similar clinics are opening in Canada, Mexico and South Africa. /Telegraph/