Woman dies in drug rehab (Story from New Zealand Herald)

Husband wants answers about treatment

The grieving husband of an Italian-born farmer who died of a suspected heart attack in a controversial rehab clinic is demanding answers about her death.

Teodora Palmieri-Chuck, 45, of Wairarapa, died at Kaitaia’s Iboga Clinic while undergoing a controversial ibogaine drug addiction treatment.

Ibogaine has been hailed as a miracle way to break drug dependency after only one dose, but concerns have ...

Clinic failed woman who died after treatment on experimental drug
ASHLEIGH STEWART

Last updated [19:08], August 10 2015

A patient at the iBoga clinic in Kaitaia has died following the administration of an experimental drug Ibogaine.

A clinic administering experimental treatment for drug addiction has been labelled a “sloppy operation” after a woman was found dead on her third day of treatment.

Health and Disability Commissioner Anthony Hill has found a GP at Te Whare Rongoa in Kaitaia, ...

Deforestation of Iboga in Gabon: ICEERS Reports

ICEERS have received several voices of alarm about the preservation of Tabernanthe iboga in Gabon.

Last Tuesday, March 26th of 2013, Dimitri Mougianis, Michael McKenna, and Bovenga Na Muduma, who were set up and arrested in 2011 for giving Iboga to an addict, have been sentenced in Seattle. They ended up with 45 days of home detention without probation, a penalty for misdemeanor possession of ibogaine and iboga… The judge clearly understood the new purpose these men found in their lives after they managed to overcome years of ...

A heroin-addicted friend was determined to detox via this controversial—and illegal—hallucinogen. Reluctantly, I agreed to help him score it and to supervise his trip. What was I thinking? 

Inside the Ibogaine Underground

By Matt Harvey 12/14/12