By the way, SF, as far as research etc into baclofen is concerned, you are completely wrong in your whole understanding of this.
Baclofen is a generic. It is already licensed. It is being used for AUD already, legally and ethically by doctors in the United States. It doesn't need a license. The only reason a pharmaceutical company would apply for a patent and a license would be if they could market it which no one can because it's license has expired and it is a generic. Because it is not licensed specifically for AUD and addiction, that only means it can't be advertised commercially for that purpose. It doesn't mean it can't be prescribed.
So, Baclofen is already in use under prescription across the USA and around the world for AUD so it is miles ahead of Ibogaine.
Also, you are being deliberately selective and misinformative about what you yourself know about the NIH attitude towards baclofen. You wrote to George Koob yourself about baclofen and gabapentin when you were on your gabapentin kick. You asked him, like some puppy whining for attention, if Gabapentin was better than baclofen. He responded and you shared that response with me. He told you to watch the developments in France. He is a long time supporter of Ameisen and baclofen.
I'd like to add that my role, which I have taken on deliberately, is that of an advocate for my wife's treatment. If you had a child or wife with a serious life-threatening condition which also seriously affected your own mental health and your social circumstances, career etc., you would advocate for better treatment for those who take a drug which is effectively curing them. Had we received any support at all from the wider medical community, hospitals and other institutions who we ran up against, who knows what the result would have been. This fight is a lonely one for all of us and we all need psychological support. There isn't anywhere else but here where anyone can get that support. People go to AA meetings for support. They don't expect someone to gate crash and harangue them endlessly.
What we have here is someone in SF who is grandstanding, not providing support to anyone. He is trying to make a name for himself and his own twisted mind he thinks that I am here because I want to be famous. He resents that and he decided, he told me, to do this because he wanted to do what I was doing.
I post in pain most of the time, severe psychological pain over the illness of my wife. I don't want to be famous as the husband of a drunk. I want help from doctors and the medical establishment because I have a family I care about. I haven't seen one thing in all this horrible Ibogaine posting that has shown any support for anyone on this forum going through the pain of alcoholism and recovery, not one word. If this were an AA meeting, SF would be kicked out and if he came back he would be barred and the police called.
Find some studies of Ibogaine having cured alcoholics in the long term, explain its effects scientifically, or shut up.
Oh, yes, I forgot to add that Arbaclofen which converts to baclofen in the body is going through trials now in the US which will lead to a license application by Reckits Benkeiser, one of the world's largest retailers of commercial health care products.
:sohappy::sohappy:
Baclofen is a generic. It is already licensed. It is being used for AUD already, legally and ethically by doctors in the United States. It doesn't need a license. The only reason a pharmaceutical company would apply for a patent and a license would be if they could market it which no one can because it's license has expired and it is a generic. Because it is not licensed specifically for AUD and addiction, that only means it can't be advertised commercially for that purpose. It doesn't mean it can't be prescribed.
So, Baclofen is already in use under prescription across the USA and around the world for AUD so it is miles ahead of Ibogaine.
Also, you are being deliberately selective and misinformative about what you yourself know about the NIH attitude towards baclofen. You wrote to George Koob yourself about baclofen and gabapentin when you were on your gabapentin kick. You asked him, like some puppy whining for attention, if Gabapentin was better than baclofen. He responded and you shared that response with me. He told you to watch the developments in France. He is a long time supporter of Ameisen and baclofen.
I'd like to add that my role, which I have taken on deliberately, is that of an advocate for my wife's treatment. If you had a child or wife with a serious life-threatening condition which also seriously affected your own mental health and your social circumstances, career etc., you would advocate for better treatment for those who take a drug which is effectively curing them. Had we received any support at all from the wider medical community, hospitals and other institutions who we ran up against, who knows what the result would have been. This fight is a lonely one for all of us and we all need psychological support. There isn't anywhere else but here where anyone can get that support. People go to AA meetings for support. They don't expect someone to gate crash and harangue them endlessly.
What we have here is someone in SF who is grandstanding, not providing support to anyone. He is trying to make a name for himself and his own twisted mind he thinks that I am here because I want to be famous. He resents that and he decided, he told me, to do this because he wanted to do what I was doing.
I post in pain most of the time, severe psychological pain over the illness of my wife. I don't want to be famous as the husband of a drunk. I want help from doctors and the medical establishment because I have a family I care about. I haven't seen one thing in all this horrible Ibogaine posting that has shown any support for anyone on this forum going through the pain of alcoholism and recovery, not one word. If this were an AA meeting, SF would be kicked out and if he came back he would be barred and the police called.
Find some studies of Ibogaine having cured alcoholics in the long term, explain its effects scientifically, or shut up.
Oh, yes, I forgot to add that Arbaclofen which converts to baclofen in the body is going through trials now in the US which will lead to a license application by Reckits Benkeiser, one of the world's largest retailers of commercial health care products.
:sohappy::sohappy:
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