A Kentucky advisory commission has allocated millions to study the controversial, plant-based hallucinogen ibogaine, but is it the answer to combating the state's opioid crisis?
On the steps of the state capitol building in Frankfort on May 31, the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission announced the launch of a new state-funded program that would aim to help stem the damage and destruction wrought by the ongoing opioid crisis that has devastated the lives of millions and led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands. But the new initiative wasn’t simply to throw more money and resources into tried-and-true public health programs.
“This administration recognizes that the opioid epidemic is one of the most tragic and visible symptoms of spiritual affliction which pervades our society,” Bryan Hubbard, chairman and executive director of KYOCC, told The Daily Beast. “We must do better. We must explore every possible avenue which holds the potential for improvement.
, mostly due to cardiac arrhythmia, and mixing ibogaine with other powerful pharmaceuticals like methadone and diazepam.—“There’s a lot of news about psychedelics that have come out, but this one requires by far several orders of magnitude, more supervision, medical observation,” Joseph Barsuglia, a clinical psychologist and the former director of research and CEO at the now-closed addictions treatment center Crossroads Treatment in Mexico, told The Daily Beast.
When asked by The Daily Beast why the commission was allocating millions toward studying a psychedelic compound rather than expanding resources to more tried-and-true public health initiatives, Hubbard argued while medications like methadone, buprenorphine, naltrexone are part of the solution, “it comes with consequences. Diversion independently fuels the epidemic,” and that the money gone into expanding access to these drugs has not yet had enough of an impact.
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