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The Holistic Sanctuary and Sanctuary Tulum vs Ibogaine Treatment MX

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	The Holistic Sanctuary and Sanctuary Tulum	Ibogaine Treatment MX
Category	Luxury residential program, ibogaine as one modality	Licensed medical facility with hospital transfer agreement
Location	Rosarito and Tulum, Mexico	Mexico City, Mexico
Setting	Oceanfront "private residences rather than clinical wards"; Sanctuary Tulum describes private villas and says it is "licensed as a hospital and clinic".	"Licensed medical facility", explicitly "not a villa", with a private hospital 9 minutes away under a written transfer agreement.
Medical team	Medical director Dr. Jose A. Jimenez MD; nursing staff on site; cardiac and psychiatric screening before ibogaine.	A cardiologist medical director who reads the 12-lead EKGs and attends dosing; an ACLS emergency physician as the responsible physician; a psychiatrist; an ACLS nurse 24/7; continuous ECG and pulse oximetry, crash cart and oxygen. Physician names and licence numbers are given only in the screening pack.
Screening before treatment	Intake and medical history; cardiac and psychiatric screening.	Potassium, magnesium and liver labs before travel; a physician-planned washout; Suboxone, methadone and SSRI tapers scheduled with the patient's prescriber; no dosing until long-acting opioids have cleared.
What is given	Not specified.	Not stated.
Who it is for	Depression, anxiety, PTSD, alcohol, benzodiazepine withdrawal, opiates, SSRI dependence, sex addiction, eating disorders, behavioural addictions; ibogaine for alcohol, opioid and stimulant dependence.	Opioids (heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone; Suboxone and methadone transition), alcohol, stimulants.
Protocol and length of stay	4 to 16 weeks (Silver, Gold and Platinum programs).	7 days on site, then follow-up to day 90.
After the treatment	Not described.	Weekly calls to day 30, then days 45, 60 and 90; a written summary for the home doctor; a US clinician referral list.
Published price	Not on the site. recovery.com: Holistic Sanctuary $50,000; Sanctuary Tulum $100,000 per month.	$12,500 all-inclusive; flights, extra tests and extra nights excluded. The deposit is refunded if the patient is screened out.
Licences and accreditations stated	Sanctuary Tulum states a COFEPRIS Federal License of Operation for Hospital and Clinic, No. 17-AM-02-005-0003 (self-stated; the only licence number we found published by any Mexican program).	"COFEPRIS-licensed medical facility" claimed; the number is not published.
Founded / history	"Since 2011".	Founded 2026 (site); founder Michael Vale.
Rating (as shown on the cited page)	5 from 5 reviews (recovery.com, 2026-10-20)	Not shown on the pages we checked
Public record	None found.	None found.
Status	Operating. Sites copyright 2026, updated October 2026, phones listed. No lawsuit or regulatory action was found in searches.	Operating. Site copyright 2026, updated October 2026. No phone number; the contact email is on an agency domain.

From each program's website and the sources on its profile, checked 2026-10-20.

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