The 2004 documentary Detox or Die documented how the Scottish filmmaker David Graham Scott successfully managed to quit his 16 year long heroin / methadone addiction after a single dose of Iboga.
The documentary was aired by the BBC and helped to inspire many other drug addicts to go down that route in order to try and beat their own addictions. Ibogaine treatment is said to have very impressive success rates, but it is not without its risks.
David Graham Scott returns in this 2014 follow up Iboga Nights he wants to find out just how effective Iboga really is, and whether the astonishing success rates can be believed.
He films at the base of a Dutch Iboga practitioner and observes as several addicts consume a dose and embark on a long night of psychedelic detox. Whilst making the film one of the patients ends up on a life support machine, leading to the arrest of the practitioner, and David begins to ask questions about the safety of Iboga.
It is said that around 1 in every 300 people who take a dose of Iboga will die.
The 2004 documentary Detox or Die documented how the Scottish filmmaker David Graham Scott successfully managed to quit his 16 year long heroin / methadone addiction after a single dose of Iboga. The documentary was […]
Detox or Die is a 2004 BBC documentary by filmmaker David Graham Scott. The film follows Scott’s own attempt to rid himself of his addiction to drugs by undertaking Ibogaine treatment. Scott spent four years hooked on heroin, and a further twelve on legally prescribed heroin substitute methadone. His addiction is managed but methadone is notoriously difficult to stop, with only 4% of people subscribed methadone successfully being able to go from methadone to clean.
The film was filmed over a five year period. Before undertaking the treatment he shows the viewer the murky world that he inhabited whilst using, at one point relapsing and taking a fix of heroin with some associates, and he lays bare on camera his desperation to get completely clean. Ibogaine treatment is controversial, unregulated, and even potential lethal. There have been several recorded deaths of participants dying after taking the drug and suffering withdrawal.
Unlike conventional treatments and detoxes, Ibogaine treatment claims to completely clear withdrawal symptoms in just one day. Scott undertakes the horrific 36 hour detox despite being petrified of potential death, and ultimately comes out of the other side having successfully kicked his twelve year methadone dependency. David Graham Scott returned to the subject of Ibogaine with the award winning feature length documentary
Detox or Die is a 2004 BBC documentary by filmmaker David Graham Scott. The film follows Scott’s own attempt to rid himself of his addiction to drugs by undertaking Ibogaine treatment. Scott spent four years […]
Ibogaine is a substance that is derived from the root of an African plant that grows in Gabon. This plant is originally used during initiations of the Bwiti culture, but in the sixties the anti-addictive […]