{"id":148355,"date":"2025-06-25T01:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=148355"},"modified":"2025-06-25T01:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:34:17","slug":"texas-oks-50-million-for-ibogaine-research-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=148355","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Texas OK\u2019s $50 Million for Ibogaine Research&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/14\/health\/texas-psychedelics-ibogaine-veterans.html?smid=em-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;When Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas approved legislation this week to spend $50 million in state money researching&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/05\/health\/ibogaine-psychedelic-opioid-addiction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ibogaine<\/a>, a powerful psychedelic, he put the spotlight on a promising, still illegal drug that has shown promise in treating opioid addiction, traumatic brain injury and depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Interest in ibogaine therapy has surged in recent years, driven in large part by veterans who have had to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/16\/us\/psychedelic-ibogaine-veteran-brain-injury-ptsd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel to other countries<\/a>&nbsp;for the treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The measure, which passed the Texas Legislature with bipartisan support, seeks to leverage an additional $50 million in private investment to fund clinical trials that supporters hope will provide a pathway for ibogaine therapy to win approval from the Food and Drug Administration, a process that could take years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The legislation directs the state to work with Texas universities and hospitals and tries to ensure that the state retains a financial stake in any revenue from the drug\u2019s development.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;When Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas approved legislation this week to spend $50 million in state money researching&nbsp;ibogaine, a powerful psychedelic, he put the spotlight on a promising, still illegal drug that has shown promise in treating opioid addiction, traumatic brain injury and depression. Interest in ibogaine therapy has surged in recent years,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148356,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148355\/revisions\/148356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}