Final Paper

Ibogaine- Howard Lotsof

Although at times Lotsof may present us with an article that may be hard to interpret on a layman level, his writing has a sort of influential spell wrapped around it. Even when the writing is unclear, the point still gets across about the matter at hand. When Howard Lotsof speaks about ibogaine, you are left with a sort of instinctual attraction to the subject at hand. This new found medical phenomenon has left the scientists, as well as the readers, intrigued. In the way of medicine, it is a "development of promising new medicines for treating substance abuse" (Syed). Lotsof has the ability to not only share his marvelous creation in real life but can bring any reader to experience the hype behind the product. He writes in a way that entices and attracts the reader. It is a sort of melodic endeavor that seems to appear even through the compiled scientificfactors. His discovery is one of the newer and is said to "shed light on theneurobiology of addiction and lead to the development of new medicine for the treatment of addiction" (Alper). Even thought the product is relatively new and illegal in most countries, the confidence attached to this product is unsurpassed. It has something to do with the way that Lotsof gets through to the reader and delivers specific knowledge of the product visible enough that one can understand and relate without even experienced it.

Works Cited
Syed F Ali, 2002, International Society for Neurochemistry, New
York, New York Academyof Sciences.

Kenneth R. Alper, 2001, Ibogaine: Procedures form the First
International Conference, Illinois, Academic Press

Paul de Rienzo, 1997, The Ibogaine Story: Report on the Staten
Island Project, Staten Island, Autonomedia