Ibogaine is back in the news, with recurring claims that it can stop an addict’s cravings and allow a trouble-free withdrawal from addiction. A powerful hallucinogen, it appears to have a cognitive effect as well, prompting an addict’s transformative reappraisal of their relationship to their drugs and their habits. People report actually taking a day-and-a-half trip and waking up afterward to realize their addiction is literally just gone. Would love to see someone sufficiently interested to bankroll reputable clinical trials of this, but the drug addict community is not much of a constituency for either public or private funding sources, and NIDA and the FDA appear scared off by the drug’s toxicity.