235. Is Ibogaine a Miracle Treatment for PTSD and Addiction?

235. Is Ibogaine a Miracle Treatment for PTSD and Addiction?

Author: Roger K. McFillin, Psy.D., ABPP June 18, 2026 Duration: 1:14:58

Jonathan Dickinson sat on the floor of a temple in Gabon, initiated into the Bwiti tradition. He built the only ethical supply line out of that forest when no one else would. He co-authored the safety guidelines the entire field depends on, was part of the landmark Stanford research, and runs one of the world's leading ibogaine clinics through Ambio Life Sciences. This year he poured fifteen years of it into a new book.

Psychedelics have moved from the counterculture to the President's desk, and our most elite warfighters are quietly leaving the country to get a treatment America still calls a crime. At the center of it is a root the people of Gabon have called a teacher for thousands of years.

Jonathan walks us through what ibogaine appears to do for trauma, addiction, and brain injury, where the science is astonishing, and where the honest answer is still that we don't know. He describes a door this medicine opens in the mind, one he says the modern world has trained us to keep shut.

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