Documentary Films About Ibogaine Therapy
- Detox or Die (2004)
- Directed by David Graham Scott. David Graham Scott begins videotaping his heroin-addicted friends. Before long, he himself is addicted to the drug. He eventually turns the camera to himself and his family. After 12 years of debilitating, painful dependence on methadone, Scott turns to ibogaine. Filmed in Scotland and England, and broadcast on BBC One as the third installment in the documentary series One Life.
- Ibogaine: Rite of Passage (2004)
- Directed by Ben Deloenen. A heroin addict undergoes ibogaine treatment at the Ibogaine Association, a clinic in Mexico. Deloenen interviews people formerly addicted to heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, who share their perspectives about ibogaine treatment. In Gabon, a Babongo woman receives iboga root for her depressive malaise. Deloenen visually contrasts this Western, clinical use of ibogaine with the Bwiti use of iboga root, but emphasizes the Western context.
- Facing the Habit (2007)
- Directed by Magnolia Martin. Martin's subject is a former millionaire and stockbroker who travels to Mexico for ibogaine treatment for heroin addiction.
- I'm Dangerous with Love (2009)
- Directed by Michel Negroponte. Negroponte examines Dimitri Mugianis's long, clandestine career of treating heroin addicts with ibogaine.
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