Settlement money to help stem the decades-long opioid addiction and overdose epidemic is rolling out to small towns and big cities across the U.S., but advocates worry that chunks of it may be used in ways that don’t make a dent in the crisis.
As state and local governments navigate how to use the money, advocates say local governments may not have the bandwidth to take the right steps to identify their communities’ needs and direct their funding shares to projects that use proven methods to prevent deaths.
Opioids have been linked to about 800,000 deaths in the U.S. since 1999, including more than 80,000 annually in recent years, with most of those involving illicitly produced fentanyl.
The best medicine we have for opioid addiction, Nixon criminalized in the 60s (ibogaine).
Ibogaine in the Treatment of Substance Dependence
https://sci-hub.st/10.2174/15672050113109990001
I don’t know how it compares to ibogaine, but naltrexone is used to help people overcome addiction to opioids and alcohol these days
Ibogaine removes the root desire to use, Naltrexone just removes the euphoria that the drugs provide. You can condition a patient to not desire certain drugs with Naltrexone, but the patient needs to already be committed to the treatment plan. Ibogaine can be effective with just one use.
Sounds like a wonder drug.
It certainly can be, but it’s a strong dissociative (think hallunicanagen, but darker and less visual). Most people don’t find the experience pleasant in the moment, although there tends to be high satisfaction with efficacy afterward…
Research Ketamine, it has many, many positive benefits as has been around over 60 years. It cures many ailments and will cure many symptoms but the pharmaceutical industry keeps it on lockdown so they don’t lose profits. Identical to many other drugs in society illegal for the sake of profit.
Why was it banned? Introducing another drug into this isn’t the most attractive idea
Nixon banned all psychedelics because when people took them, they joined the war protests. Essentially.