Although ibogaine is a powerful tool for addiction treatment, ibogaine alone is not going to solve the problem at large. “Many of the proponents of ibogaine are calling it a cure, but they’re looking at it in a linear way—with a beginning, a middle, and an end,” former underground provider Dimitri Mugianis said in a previous interview. “In my experience with iboga, it simply doesn’t work that way.” Some ibogaine patients have gone back to using opioids and some haven’t, Mugianis says.