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4.9
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530 five-star reviews
16
Treatment Types
Conditions covered
2023–2026
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Russell Q.
New York · 7-day stay
5-MeO-DMT Therapy

Came for the combined ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT protocol, primarily for depression that wasn't responding to anything. The clinical staff spent real time on my history before designing the session. The ibogaine came first,...

Feb 4, 2023 · Treated 2023
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Anna B.
Delaware · 7-day stay
PTSD & Trauma

Three tours of Iraq. I came back different and never fully came back. The hypervigilance, the dreams, the way I couldn't be fully present anywhere. Tried everything the VA offered. My psychiatrist had run through six med...

Feb 2, 2023 · Treated 2023
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Shannon Q.
New Hampshire · 12-day stay
Opioid Addiction
Off opioids after 12 years

As a nurse I told myself I had it under control. Functional addict for 7 years on opioids. Then my tolerance outpaced what I could afford and things got dark fast. MindScape wasn't cheap and I borrowed money to get there...

Jan 24, 2023 · Treated 2023
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David N.
New Hampshire · 7-day stay
Chronic Pain
Off opioids and more functional than in years

Degenerative disc disease for 11 years. Went through years of physical therapy and pain management combined. The pain was real and constant and eventually I was on opioids long enough to develop a dependency that complic...

Jan 23, 2023 · Treated 2022
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Brandon P.
New Mexico · 7-day stay
PTSD & Trauma

My PTSD came from a childhood that included ongoing abuse. I couldn't be in crowds. Hadn't slept through the night in two years. Self-medicating with alcohol just to function. A friend who had done ibogaine for grief tol...

Jan 22, 2023 · Treated 2023
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Betty A.
Minnesota · 7-day stay
PTSD & Trauma

I was a firefighter for 18 years and the cumulative exposure caught up with me. My relationships were suffering. I was irritable, hypervigilant, unable to relax anywhere. Sleep was impossible without medication. A collea...

Jan 20, 2023 · Treated 2023
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Walter D.
Missouri · 7-day stay
Chronic Pain

A work injury with permanent nerve damage and 3 years of pain management that eventually became as much of a problem as the pain. I came to MindScape because I was opioid dependent and the pain was still there. They addr...

Jan 13, 2023 · Treated 2023
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Nicole V.
Connecticut · 10-day stay
Multiple Substances

My addiction involved opioids, benzos, and alcohol at various points, often simultaneously. 12 years of that. Polydrug dependence makes most treatment programs difficult because they're designed for single substances. Th...

Jan 12, 2023 · Treated 2023
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Kimberly H.
New Hampshire · 14-day stay
Methadone & Suboxone

120mg of methadone for 6 years. The clinic kept recommending I lower my dose but every attempt ended with withdrawal severe enough to derail everything. I'd given up on ever being off methadone completely. MindScape was...

Jan 10, 2023 · Treated 2022
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Courtney Y.
Wyoming · 18-day stay
Methadone & Suboxone

Getting off Suboxone was harder than anything I'd been through in recovery. 11 years at high doses. The standard taper is measured in months or years and the withdrawal that comes anyway is relentless. I found MindScape...

Jan 9, 2023 · Treated 2023
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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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