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Iboga Wellness Institute vs Texas ibogaine trials (IMPACT consortium)

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	Iboga Wellness Institute	Texas ibogaine trials (IMPACT consortium) Status unconfirmedClinical trial
Category	Physician-led ibogaine program in private retreats	State-funded clinical trial program, not enrolling as of October 2026
Location	Cozumel, Mexico	Houston and Galveston, United States
Setting	"Private medical facility" operating in retreat villas.	Academic hospitals, under an FDA-supervised protocol, once the trial exists.
Medical team	Physician-led: a chief medical director (anesthesiologist), a psychiatry and addiction consultant, a sports-medicine physician, a head nurse and an RN coordinator; "physicians on-site 24/7" and "ICU-trained nursing". A cardiologist is not mentioned.	University physicians and researchers.
Screening before treatment	Baseline 12-lead EKG, echocardiogram if warranted, electrolyte labs 48 hours before, blood chemistry, and a post-treatment EKG within 24 hours. Fasting rules. SSRIs, SNRIs, MAOIs, tricyclics, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines and stimulants are tapered; opioid-dependent patients are "stabilized onsite". A methadone or Suboxone taper rule is not stated.	Trial eligibility criteria, not yet published.
What is given	Not specified; "verified suppliers", tested for purity.	To be set by the FDA-approved protocol.
Who it is for	Opioids, alcohol, stimulants, PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief, TBI and post-concussion syndrome, CTE, Parkinson's, MS, neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, CRPS.	Addiction, TBI and other behavioural conditions (the IMPACT consortium: Ibogaine Medicine for PTSD, Addiction and Cognitive Trauma).
Protocol and length of stay	5 to 30 days.	A two-year multicentre trial is planned. As of October 2026 no federally authorised ibogaine trial exists in the United States (ARPA-H).
After the treatment	Check-in calls at one week, one month and three months; integration therapists; peer groups; booster sessions.	Per protocol.
Published price	Not on the pages we read. recovery.com: "From $7,500". Financing via Affirm and Credit Karma is offered.	No fee expected for trial participants.
Licences and accreditations stated	None stated; physicians list board certifications.	Texas SB 2308, signed June 2025, appropriated $50 million; HHSC selected UTHealth Houston and UTMB on December 12, 2025.
Founded / history	Not stated; claims 3,000+ treatments.	The statute bars disbursement until non-state matching funds arrive. In March 2026 HHSC said no drug-company proposal met the match requirements; state leaders said Texas would fully fund the program. As of October 8, 2026 no executed contract or disbursement had been confirmed.
Rating (as shown on the cited page)	5 from 16 reviews (recovery.com, 2026-10-20)	Not shown on the pages we checked
Public record	None found.	None found.
Status	Operating. Site updated October 2026, phone listed. Note: Blossom's directory conflates this program with the Iboga Wellness Center in Costa Rica, which is a different, root-bark retreat.	Status unconfirmed. Not enrolling. Anyone searching for ibogaine in Texas today cannot get it through this program yet.

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

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