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Topic: Drugs Treatments
Have a look at this, folks. A gene is found (in rodents) that affects the likelihood of opiate relapse...
This New Scientist article puts me in mind of the African plant substance ibogaine, which has always been better known as a psychedelic. It's apparently not the pleasantest drugs trip you can go on (loads of nausea and vomiting)... and yet the plant has one fascinating power... it seems to be able to defeat drug addiction of all kinds. I.e. even people on huge methadone doses can, supposedly, undergo ibogaine treatment and the ibogaine not only blockades opiate craving for four years (with no need to readminister the ibogaine during that time) it also eliminates almost entirely withdrawals even from methadone (which are the worst). And it also works against crack! There's an American ibogaine clinic in my links to the right...
To read about the relapse gene in rats click: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7445
By the way; poor rats:— did they put them on methadone afterwards?
