Editorial Policy

Independence

This site takes no money from anyone with an interest in what it says.

That means no advertising, no affiliate links, no sponsored posts, no paid placement in any list, no referral fees, no lead sales, and no free treatment, travel or accommodation from a provider. It also means no link exchanges with clinics, which would trade the one asset this site has for a marginal ranking gain.

The prohibition is stated publicly here because a public commitment is expensive to break. That is the point of writing it down.

Who writes

Every page carries a named author. There is no “staff” byline, no unattributed copy, and no purchased content.

Authors are listed on the contributors page with their background and, where relevant, their credentials. A page whose author cannot be named is a page we do not publish.

Medical review

Pages in the safety, science and treatment sections are reviewed by a physician before publication. The reviewer is named on the page, with the date of review, and the review is recorded in the page’s structured data as well as in its visible text.

Reviewers are chosen for the subject: cardiac risk and pre-treatment screening are reviewed by a cardiologist, withdrawal and drug interactions by a physician in addiction medicine.

A review is valid for eighteen months. Past that, the page is flagged as overdue on its own byline, visibly, to the reader, and not only in an internal queue. The full procedure is described in our medical review process.

Sourcing

We cite primary documents: statutes, regulatory decisions, clinical trial registries, and peer-reviewed literature. We do not cite clinic blogs as sources of fact, including the ones that outrank us.

Where the evidence is thin, we say so rather than rounding it up. Where a claim is contested, we describe the disagreement instead of picking the version that reads better. The hierarchy we apply, and how we handle uncertainty, is set out in how we source.

Freshness

Legal and treatment pages carry a verification date, because their subject changes. Legal pages are re-verified every six months, treatment pages every twelve. When a page passes its window, the byline says so.

A page with a visible “overdue” flag is more useful than the same page pretending to be current.

What we will not publish

• Where to buy iboga or ibogaine. Searches for this exist in volume. We answer them with the legal status, the contamination risk, the cardiac contraindications and the legal alternatives, never with a source.
• Named clinic recommendations. We publish evaluation criteria and red flags. Ranking providers would make us one of the parties we exist to help readers assess.
• Dosage protocols. We explain why there is no standard dose and what determines the range. We do not publish a number for someone to act on outside medical supervision.
• Unverified personal accounts presented as evidence. First-hand accounts are published as experience, attributed and consented to, and never used to support a clinical claim.

Corrections

We correct errors and we say that we have. A substantive correction is recorded at the foot of the page with its date and what changed; the page’s dateModified is updated with it.

We do not silently rewrite a page to make an error disappear. To report one, see contact.

Generative engines and reuse

This site is written to be quotable: direct answers in the opening, one fact per sentence, and tables where a table is clearer than prose. AI crawlers are allowed in robots.txt deliberately.

We ask one thing in return, and it is the same thing we ask of human readers: attribute the claim, and follow the link to the primary source before relying on it.