Neal Freiman
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 11 Jun
Neal Freiman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, if he doesn't want to spend 24 hours in a very intense situation.
So Ibogaine, I hadn't heard about it until learning about it.
this particular story is a psychedelic compound extracted from a Gabonese root bark.
That Gabon is a, is a country in West Africa.
It, it, it's a trip that lasts sometimes up to 24 hours and is explained by many people who have done this as very intense, often distressing.
But the thing is you do it once according to these people and it completely eliminates drug with withdrawal symptoms.
It is a, is a,
reset of your brain in 24 hours.
And so there's a thriving industry in countries outside of the United States, particularly Mexico, where a lot of veterans and people with PTSD in the United States or other mental health conditions will go to Mexico and pay up to $15,000 for this treatment of Ibogaine, come back and say they're completely healed.
And there's been a few promoters of it in the United States, including former Texas Governor Rick Perry.
So
That is maybe the all-star of this particular class of drugs that is being singled out for reducing red tape around research.
There's been pushback.
Some in the public health industry say, look, there's a reason there's a red tape.
It's because these things are super intense, super dangerous, and there should be a lot of guidelines around experiments in this domain.
And even in 2024, we're talking about MDMA.
There was an MDA therapy up for approval at the FDA yesterday.
And the FDA rejected it after studies supporting the approval missed serious side effects.
And the Wall Street Journal came out with this big report showing that study subjects said they felt pressure to report positive outcomes because it would be such a historic moment for an MDMA therapy to be approved.
And they kind of said they had a much better experience
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