Iboga Saves: Ending the Opioid Epidemic
OUR GOALs:
1. Raise seed funding to begin giving out “Entheogenic Travel & Integration Scholarships” for those seeking Iboga treatments for opioid addiction in a land where the medicine is criminalized and insurance doesn’t cover costs
2. Make a movie for an mainstream audience about how iboga works to interrupt addiction in a single treatment and what the inner process of healing is
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ABOUT THE MOVIE:
Desperate to kick their deadly habit, four American opioid users learn of a unique plant medicine treatment that eliminates craving and withdrawal from addiction in just one session. Offered the treatment under the auspices of an experimental pilot program, and with nothing to lose, they travel together to a clinic in Mexico accompanied by medical professionals and family members who witness the procedure.
Iboga Saves: Healing the Heartland explores the opioid hell-scape that the participants and their families have endured, their miraculous recovery treatment in Mexico and the critical integration therapy that helps them put their lives back together and restore damaged ties to their community.
Impact Creative, a Bay Area production company, and Awake Media, a San Diego digital media company propose to film the entire procedure, before, during, and after, and produce a documentary that serves as a message of hope for a desperate population by exploring a possible solution to the opioid epidemic that continues to send tens of thousands of citizens a year to an early grave.
The main action with iboga/ibogaine happens on the inside. In addition to documenting the outer journey, we will recreate the inner psychospiritual journey and teaching that Ibogaine delivers, and expose—through expert interviews and narrative arc—how and why a medicine that heals trauma, addiction and grief by way of a mystical experience might be the missing link in a broken addiction recovery system.
OUR GOALS:
1. Spread the word about iboga as a treatment for addiction.
2. Change the laws that deny Americans access to this medicine.
3. Educate those seeking treatment abroad about the risks and requirements.
4. Help people understand the inner psychospiritual journey how best to navigate it.
5. Document the integration process for long-term recovery.
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Many thanks to Executive Producer donor:
Robert J. Barnhart. Your 'first-day' $10,000 donation gave us hope and encouragement.
Many thanks to Corporate and Celebrity Sponsors for guidance, media and donations:
Brad Burge, Erik Brown, Sam Insightfin at MAPS.org, Bluebird Botanicals • Foster & Kimberly Clark Gamble • Aubrey Marcus • Ken Jordan & Evolver.net •
Many thanks to:
My partner Jack Cross, without whom I could never do this.
Many thanks for your participation, support, help, guidance and donations:
Kevin Sheard, Ty Hensel, Simon Anderson, Patti Bianco, Sally Thomas, Dr. Gabor Mate, Dr. Ken Alper, Judith Morgan, Stefan Reich, Dr. Martin Polanco, Deanne Adamson, Kevin Franciotti, Patrick Kroupa, Annelise Schinzinger, Annie Elizabeth, Greg Dunn, Eric Swenson, Ana Holub, Mark Scheider, Ben de Loenen, C.Y. Gopinath, Anslyn Ryan, Johnny Tabaie, Cody Swift, Sandya Dandamudi, Adrian Hooper, Jeffrey Kamlett and more....
Clinic images courtesy of Crossroads Ibogaine
A special thanks to Eric Thiermann for joining me wholeheartedly in this effort.
For inquiries contact Lakshmi Narayan at [phone redacted] • © 2018 Awake Media LLC
