Hallucinogenic potential: a review of psychoplastogens for the treatment of opioid use disorder

MG Hornick, A Stefanski - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The United States is entering its fourth decade of the opioid epidemic with no clear end in
sight. At the center of the epidemic is an increase in opioid use disorder (OUD), a complex …

Looking beyond the opioid receptor: A desperate need for new treatments for opioid use disorder

YK Lee, MS Gold, BS Fuehrlein - Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
The mainstay of treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) is opioid agonist therapy (OAT),
which modulates opioid receptors to reduce substance craving and use. OAT maintains …

Remission of severe opioid use disorder with ibogaine: a case report

L Cloutier-Gill, E Wood, T Millar, C Ferris… - … of psychoactive drugs, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Opioid use disorders (OUD) translate into major health, social, and economic
consequences. Opioid agonist medications, which generally require long-term …

Novel psychoplastogen DM506 reduces cue-induced heroin-seeking and inhibits tonic GABA currents in the Prelimbic Cortex.

K Looschen, SN Khatri, M Maulik, C Salisbury… - Neurochemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Opioid use disorder is a major public health crisis that is manifested by persistent drug-
seeking behavior and high relapse frequency. Most of the available treatments rely on …

[HTML][HTML] IUPHAR–invited review-Ibogaine–A legacy within the current renaissance of psychedelic therapy

DC Mash - Pharmacological Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Ibogaine is a powerful psychoactive substance that not only alters perception, mood and
affect, but also stops addictive behaviors. Ibogaine has a very long history of ethnobotanical …

Novel psychotherapeutics–a cautiously optimistic focus on Hallucinogens

AM Sherwood, TE Prisinzano - Expert review of clinical …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Disrupted mental health affects up to one in three individuals globally and is an unmet
medical challenge contributing to individual suffering as well as significant societal and …

Engineering safer psychedelics for treating addiction

J Peters, DE Olson - Neuroscience Insights, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Addiction is best described as a disorder of maladaptive neuroplasticity involving the
simultaneous strengthening of reward circuitry that drives compulsive drug seeking and …

Novel treatment of opioid use disorder using ibogaine and iboga in two adults

C Wilson, T Millar, Z Matieschyn - Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 2021 - akjournals.com
Ibogaine is a naturally occurring psychedelic medicine with anti-addictive properties. While
research on ibogaine is limited, several observational studies have shown ibogaine can …

[HTML][HTML] Historical pathways for opioid addiction, withdrawal with traditional and alternative treatment options with ketamine, cannabinoids, and noribogaine: a …

AN Edinoff, NW Wu, CA Nix, B Bonin… - Health Psychology …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Even as prescription opioid dispensing rates have begun to decrease, the use of illicit
opioids such as heroin and fentanyl has increased. Thus, the end of the opioid epidemic is …

Breaking the cycle of opioid use disorder with ibogaine

D C. Mash - The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Ibogaine is an indole alkaloid that comes from the root of the West African shrub
Tabernanthe iboga. Ibogaine has been used for centuries in spiritual celebrations, coming of …