To the Roots: Me, My Brother, Heroin and Iboga
Sagit Mezamer
Journal of Extreme Anthropology October 6, 2020 DOI: 10.5617/jea.7047 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Visual essay Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Intervention | Ibogaine treatment |
| Topics | Ibogaine |
| Key points | Presents a personal account of one individual's ibogaine treatment for heroin addiction. |
Abstract
In July 2018 we met at the airport, my brother and I. We were bound for Portugal, where my brother was about to undergo treatment for his heroin addiction. A visual essay following an Ibogaine treatment. By artist and curator, Sagit Mezamer The imagery in this essay is taken from drawings and photographs from Mezamer's new artwork - The Mother of Opium.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on ibogaine, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biosynthesis of an Anti-Addiction Agent from the Iboga Plant. | 2019 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Bioinspired Collective Syntheses of Iboga-Type Indole Alkaloids. | 2016 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Fatalities after taking ibogaine in addiction treatment could be related to sudden cardiac death caused by autonomic dysfunction. Humans | 2006 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Iboga Alkaloids. II.1 the Structures of Ibogaine, Ibogamine and Tabernanthine | 1957 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Ibogaine analogues. Synthesis and preliminary pharmacological evaluation of 7-heteroaryl-2-azabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-7-enes. | 2003 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |