How the psychedelic Ibogaine helped a retired Vancouver firefighter treat his depression

In an interview with City News, a retired firefighter and rescue member from Vancouver says that Iboga, a psychedelic rainforest shrub that grows across West Africa, saved his life.

Erik Bjarnason said the substance helped combat his depression and reliance on alcohol following a rescue training mission gone awry in the Yukon in 2005. Stranded on Mount Logan for three days, Canada’s highest peak, Bjarnason lost nine fingers to frostbite.

“The Iboga makes you have a real conversation with yourself. It seems to open up the doors of your perception,” Bjarnason told City News.“There’s a bit of hallucinating, but it’s not really what you concentrate on. For me, I was concentrating on how do I make myself better? How do I cure myself? And for the most part, it told me what I had to do.”
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