Storms of Youth Precede Brilliant Days I Ending Opioid Addiction Using Ibogaine
Author: Gregory
Gregory Ross is a published poet and author from the Ramapo Mountain region of New Jersey. Having dealt with addiction for a number of years, he was able to alter the course of his life through the use of ibogaine. Since then he’s become an advocate for the potential of entheogens and other psychedelics to serve as healing aids. He is currently working as a freelance writer, among other odd jobs, while working on a novel about his experiences with ibogaine to help spread awareness around what he believes to be the most crucial tool available in combating heroin addiction.
Doctors couldn’t comprehend that an overdose of pills wasn’t a suicide attempt. To me, already in hot pursuit of any drug I could get my hands on, the dominating logic seemed obvious: if something gets you high, more gets you higher. I hadn’t realized more could also mean dead, but that knowledge didn’t hold me back; five days later, I was home a mere 30 minutes before ingesting a handful of the same pills that had put me under. 
My girlfriend sought a less formal facility operating out of a house in Canada and began a dialogue with its facilitator. I was told a list of requirements, including an EKG, to ensure no threatening irregularities, and a formidable request to stay clean leading up to my treatment, which I was unable to do, even with a continual flow of liquor and benzodiazepines into my system, a secondary addiction I acquired trying to get off heroin.