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faumplr Iwo cocaine cocaine-bast dependent patient was treated with the Lotsof Procedure and experienced an acute interruption of his drug use. During his Ibogaine treatment he had a strong impression that if hr continued drug us'e God would punish him. Hr remained drug-tree for about [him days. after which he mrrrased his drug use over the next months and was retreated. The dose hr received proved m be inadequate due to his vomiting of the oral dose and ro u bowel movement immediateh after the rectal administration u[ Ibogaine, which he requested [o remedy the loss of his oral dose. His drue use cominued, but tar below his original pretreatment lrvels- about six months ater his retreatmen[. the first Ibogaine therapy group sponsored by [hc Inrema[iunal Coalition [or Addict Self-Help, directed M psochotherapist Barbara Judd. CSW, w;LV established in New 1'orl.. the patient attended these sessions until fifteen month, slier his orieinal treatment, whin he recognized [ha[ he had m move awu~ from his drug-infested neighborhood. thereupon he mooed w Florida. In Florida, he has remained drug-tree, even though hz had access m cocaine. He is employed in the construction industry b_o a business with strict ?un-drue use ~uidelinzs thnt is owned and run b~ former drug users. I:.~antple three t)ne of the most important concepts seamed b} persons treated with Ibogaine is [hut addiction ran be reo erszd. Persons dependent un drugs such us opiates ur cocaine are not ably a, recognize that chemical dependence is a reversible phenomenon. I his [herd ex:nnple is u[ the only chemically-dependent person [i-om the 196'-I 96> study w receioz u series of treatments ut [herapeu[ic Izcets with Ibogaine. I he individual remained tree of addiction for upproxtmu[ely three and a halt Dears as a result ofhis series ut treatments. Durin_ that period hr moved [u California, married. and worAed m pharmacruural sales. Hr later lust his job and. when offered a ride bacl, to New furl., accepted it and returned to a life of minor drug dealing and toe that resulted in his arrest and imprisonment .after hu release. he wurAed for ? while us a machinist then slowh [ell bacL. mw heroin use utd addiction in 1969. Luc6il~, this was a period when ntethudone programs were ecpunding, and he was able to enter one of [he better programs run bs Beth larael Hospital. A[ that umr. the programs were well-staffed with doctors, muses and adequate counselors, and the patient reached a point in hu site when hr recognised that the lift of a herum addict was not what he waned. li was notjust the herum, hw the xrne itself. wherein a htunan lift was wt[hom value, where 5uutruntes a human being would be murdered fur two cents ownh of un mnoatom powder m u glusninz cm elope. the patient was wady to quit heroine, but was a slag w the crud in~~ to use opiates fix the an~iulotic relief the. prooided. lh er a penud o[ more than iwu curs. [he patient stabilised himself on mz[hudone- f le tried heroin once n~o week alter starting orethadune_ was satisfied w ith the level of blurt.age that methadone utTered. and never used heroin aeain- During the ne.vt lcw v curs the methadone programs chaneed. Nlam of the competent counselors were unable to continue in their positions due to [he stress' and eznsz of frustration m their teor6. a wnditiun cuirunon in the treatment cotmnunia. The Federal government placed more and more resutctioro on methadone patients' IFeedom ut mooement and, though methadone a anticipated to maintain [hr methadone client tilt a period of twenty-tour hours. in main rases it Burs not hot this patient withdrawal sign were sztune in ut eighteen hours and out twenty-four the patient begun a slow detositicanon process from I UOmg of methadone per day that tuu6 apprusimately eighteen months.