the first individual to observe the therapuetic effect of ibogaine in detoxification from heroin. He subsequently originated patents for the use of ibogaine in substance use disorder treatments for opioids, cocaine and amphetamine, alcohol, and nicotine.

the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). His professional goal is to help develop legal contexts for the beneficial uses of psychedelics and cannabis.

an American writer, hacker and activist. Patrick has struggled with substance dependance in the past and was treated using ibogaine. He is now consulting at Clear Sky Recovery, an ibogaine treatment centre.

an American ethnopharmacologist, research pharmacognosist,  lecturer and author. He is the brother of well-known psychedelics proponent Terence Mckenna.

has been involved with research and advocacy for the development of ibogaine as a prescription medicine since it’s earliest days. She was married to the late Howard Lotsof.

is a former intravenous heroin user & methadone patient who, in 2005, shed her chemical dependencies with ibogaine. At Pangea Biomedics, she has facilitated over 500 ibogaine treatments & worked together with MAPS. She is a board member of GITA, The Global Ibogaine Therapy Alliance and has presented at numerous conferences.

an American social and political activist best known for his efforts to legalize marijuana and to promote the benefits of ibogaine as an addiction treatment. He is a long-term activist in the Youth International Party (Yippies). He founded the Yipster Times in 1972.

an ibogaine treatment provider from 1989 to 2009 in the Netherlands, Panama and Israel. He has authored numerous articles (both in the popular press and scientific journals), including the co-author of the first ibogaine treatment manual (with Howard Lotsof).

is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at New York University School of Medicine.  Dr. Alper collaborated extensively with Howard Lotsof, the discoverer of ibogaine’s effect on drug dependence in humans.

a drug policy activist, Bwiti N'ganga (spiritual healer), poet, and musician. Dimitri has been involved in ibogaine advocacy and treatment since his own recovery from substance use disorder, which he treated using ibogaine.

Professor of neurology and of molecular and cellular pharmacology at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. Dr Mash runs the Healing Visions clinic in St Kitts, and has treated over 100 patients, the majority drug or alcohol dependent, with ibogaine.