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INTRODUCTION
Ibogaine Roundtable The 5th National Conference on Harm Reduction promises to provide one of the most interesting Ibogaine meetings in the last five years. The Ibogaine Roundtable brings together a diverse group of ibogaine researchers, providers, patients, the discoverer of Ibogaine’s antiaddictive effects, those who have played important parts in its development, those who question its place in a harm reduction environment and those who support Ibogaine as harm reduction personified. Topics of discussion will include medical updates as well as, a basic question of whether Ibogaine therapy should be returned to the control of drug users or in the inverse whether drug users will give up control of Ibogaine in the absence of government and pharmaceutical industry support to make this important medication available. The dramatic effects of Ibogaine therapy are a source of power and empowerment sought after by doctors and patients alike. Ibogaine was discovered by drug users and its principal development moved forward by drugs users and former drug users in the United States and Europe. Ibogaine continues as a talking point for political and philosophical differences defining how drug use and drug users are viewed and whether the concept of ibogaine as a medication for the treatment of chemical dependence is prohibitionist or anti prohibitionist. Whether Ibogaine represents demand reduction or harm reduction or both remains a question for some. The makeup of the Ibogaine Roundtable itself has taken form in the last weeks prior to the conference wherein a previous issue of discussion of an Ibogaine underground railroad became a reality and leaves many of us with questions of law, ethics and empowerment similar to those questions as they related to human bondage in an earlier period of our history. We look forward to interesting presentations and an even more interesting question and answer period that will follow. The writings found in this brochure are of both presentations and background information. Thank you for your attendance and participation. Howard S. Lotsof, President |
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