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581+
Total Reviews
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4.9
Average Rating
521 five-star reviews
16
Treatment Types
Conditions covered
2023–2026
Review Period
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Donald Q.
Florida · 7-day stay
Anxiety

Generalized anxiety disorder for 17 years. On benzos for years and then couldn't stop them either. Anxiety managed but not resolved, and medication side effects were their own burden. My therapist suggested researching i...

Jan 5, 2023 · Treated 2023
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Ryan P.
Nevada · 10-day stay
Opioid Addiction
Finally free after a decade of pills

The sports injury was legitimate. I need to say that because I've been dismissed before. I was prescribed morphine for 6 years and the dependency happened gradually and then completely. By the end I was buying extra on t...

Jan 5, 2023 · Treated 2023
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Samantha E.
Wyoming · 7-day stay
5-MeO-DMT Therapy
Combined protocol exceeded what I hoped for

I'm a veteran so I came with some background knowledge about what I was considering. Came for a persistent sense of meaninglessness. The ibogaine portion was about 30 hours of intense psychological work, some difficult,...

Dec 27, 2022 · Treated 2022
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Jonathan S.
Kansas · 12-day stay
SSRI Discontinuation

I'm writing this for people who are trapped on Lexapro and can't get off. Took it for 9 years and discontinuation syndrome was keeping me stuck. My prescribing doctor kept suggesting the symptoms were just my underlying...

Dec 19, 2022 · Treated 2022
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Teresa E.
Leeds, UK · 7-day stay
Traumatic Brain Injury

The TBI from an IED in Afghanistan changed my life in ways I'm still adapting to. Emotional dysregulation and word retrieval problems. My family pushed me to try ibogaine after reading about neuroplasticity research. Min...

Dec 16, 2022 · Treated 2022
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Edward W.
Arizona · 7-day stay
Cocaine & Stimulants

Weekend use that became daily over about three years. Cocaine addiction is different from opioids, no physical withdrawal in the same sense, but the psychological craving is relentless. Tried NA, individual therapy, medi...

Dec 7, 2022 · Treated 2021
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Mary R.
Tennessee · 10-day stay
Multiple Substances

Cross-addicted to cocaine and alcohol for 6 years. Each substance was partly managing the withdrawal from another and untangling them was impossible on my own. MindScape has specific experience with polydrug patients and...

Dec 1, 2022 · Treated 2022
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Jane D.
London, UK · 12-day stay
Alcohol

I was a binge drinker, not daily, but the damage was the same. By the time I came to MindScape I had more failed sobriety attempts than I could count. The longest stretch was 11 months. The pre-treatment psychological wo...

Nov 26, 2022 · Treated 2021
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Kathleen P.
Texas · 7-day stay
Depression
The persistent darkness finally lifted

Ten years of depression, most of it managed but never resolved with Wellbutrin plus Lamictal. The medications kept me afloat but I never felt like myself. Flat affect, reduced motivation, going through motions. My therap...

Nov 21, 2022 · Treated 2022
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Keith L.
Florida · 10-day stay
Fentanyl Addiction

I'm 24 and started using fentanyl at 21. Cheap and available and it obliterated everything fast. Track marks on both arms when I arrived, stealing from my parents, a minor drug charge pending. The cost of coming here was...

Nov 17, 2022 · Treated 2022
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Amber A.
North Carolina · 10-day stay
Kratom
Kratom withdrawal is real and ibogaine helped

Kratom at 50 grams daily for 7 years. I kept telling myself it was natural so it couldn't really be a problem. But I was planning every day around dosing, spending hundreds of dollars a month, snapping at people when I w...

Nov 16, 2022 · Treated 2022
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Donna S.
Arizona · 12-day stay
Kratom

Kratom was how I managed anxiety and pain without a prescription. What I know now is that kratom acts on opioid receptors and the dependency is real. When I finally decided to stop I went through three weeks of acute wit...

Nov 16, 2022 · Treated 2022
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James J.
Indiana · 10-day stay
Alcohol

I started drinking at 14 and was dependent by 20. By the time I came to MindScape I had more failed sobriety attempts than I could count. The longest stretch was 11 months. The pre-treatment psychological work at MindSca...

Nov 6, 2022 · Treated 2022
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Nicholas O.
Delaware · 7-day stay
Cocaine & Stimulants

Started in college and never really stopped, just changed how I managed it. Cocaine addiction is different from opioids, no physical withdrawal in the same sense, but the psychological craving is relentless. Tried NA, in...

Nov 5, 2022 · Treated 2021
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Richard M.
Dublin, Ireland · 7-day stay
Traumatic Brain Injury

The TBI from multiple sports concussions changed my life in ways I'm still adapting to. Cognitive slowing and depression that neurologists said was permanent. My family pushed me to try ibogaine after reading about neuro...

Nov 3, 2022 · Treated 2022
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Natalie G.
Colorado · 10-day stay
Fentanyl Addiction

Fentanyl doesn't give you a lot of time. I knew that and kept using anyway. The withdrawal is what kept me trapped, every attempt at sobriety ended the same way. A friend from my old using circle was 18 months clean afte...

Oct 28, 2022 · Treated 2022
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Jeremy Z.
Missouri · 12-day stay
Kratom

I started kratom after getting off heroin because I thought it was safe. What I know now is that kratom acts on opioid receptors and the dependency is real. When I finally decided to stop I went through three weeks of ac...

Oct 19, 2022 · Treated 2022
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Rebecca V.
Hawaii · 12-day stay
Alcohol

Alcohol for 16 years. The trajectory is familiar but living it is different from reading about it. I lost a business, a marriage, the trust of people I loved. I was in outpatient treatment when someone mentioned ibogaine...

Oct 19, 2022 · Treated 2022
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Joan A.
Wisconsin · 10-day stay
Fentanyl Addiction
Narcan twice, then ibogaine

After waking up not knowing how I got there I didn't think I had much runway left. I weighed 129 pounds when I arrived. The staff didn't comment, just got me on IV nutrition for two days while running cardiac screening....

Oct 16, 2022 · Treated 2021
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Terry Z.
South Dakota · 12-day stay
Alcohol
The compulsion is just gone

I'd been sober for three years before a bad relapse that lasted four more. My kids had stopped inviting me to things. My doctor told me my liver was showing early damage. I borrowed money to come to MindScape, want to be...

Oct 4, 2022 · Treated 2021
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Peter Z.
New Mexico · 10-day stay
Kratom

Kratom at capsules six times a day daily for 6 years. I kept telling myself it was natural so it couldn't really be a problem. But I was planning every day around dosing, spending hundreds of dollars a month, snapping at...

Oct 3, 2022 · Treated 2022
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Janet E.
Perth, Australia · 10-day stay
Fentanyl Addiction

I started with prescribed patches after surgery and they became something else. Tried Suboxone twice and methadone once. They managed withdrawal but didn't touch what was driving the using. My sister paid for MindScape a...

Sep 27, 2022 · Treated 2021
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Jordan O.
Mississippi · 7-day stay
PTSD & Trauma

I worked as a pediatric ER nurse for 11 years. The PTSD had been running my life for years. Years of VA therapy helped some but never got to the root of it. A colleague who had done ibogaine for addiction mentioned MindS...

Sep 26, 2022 · Treated 2022
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Cynthia A.
Idaho · 10-day stay
Opioid Addiction
Came as a last resort and it worked

The work accident was legitimate. I need to say that because I've been dismissed before. I was prescribed Vicodin for 11 years and the dependency happened gradually and then completely. By the end I was buying extra on t...

Sep 24, 2022 · Treated 2022
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