Naltrexone a medicine that reduces the desire to drink by blocking the receptors that are responsible for the high that drinking brings. Can help some reduce their drinking come in pill or injection form(7 ).

One month after psychedelic therapy (LSD)15% returned to drinking, while 40% of the control group returned to drinking. Results of Psychedelic therapy opiate addicted patients after one year was 25% of the study group remind free from opiates as opposed to 5% non-treated(8 ).

A friend and colleague of LSD treatment for addiction researcher Dr. Albert Kurland. A Dr. Irving J. Taylor said "He was the world's expert on LSD. He had the idea that it could be used in helping those addicted to alcohol and drugs," and said about his LSD addiction work "He had used LSD in these cases and found that it gave patients a better quality of life and that it really made a difference in some patients,"(9 ).

What about Ibogaine? Research has shown "At the end of the 24-38-hr psychoactive period induced by the drug at these doses, none of the subjects displayed significant opiate withdrawal symptoms. At the lowest dose of 700 mg, one subject recontinued his drug abuse after 2 days; of the remaining six individuals who took 1,000 mg or above, two relapsed after a number of weeks, one reverted to intermittent heroin use, and three appear to have remained drug-free 14 weeks or more after undergoing this experimental treatment. Ibogaine may be of value in the present and could serve as a model for the development of improved agents for the treatment of substance abuse in the future. "(10 ).

The length of treatment also impacts the effectiveness of treatment. One study found that thirty five percent people who where in treatment for 90 days or less reported relapsing. Compared to seventeen percent people who were in treatment for 90 days or more. Other research backs this claim of the overall effectiveness of long term treatment (11 ).

Ibogaine for addiction advocate/pioneer also Howard Lotsof, had success addiction treatment. He found that two thirds of the addicts treated stopped using drugs for a period of four months to four years. The relapse rate for conventional treatment is seventy five addicts maintain sobriety for six months ( 12 ).