It's pretty clear that DMT can cure addictions. I'm curious as to why? Is it a chemical function, or is it just your thought process? For me it had helped me see my addictions and helped me to see why I should stop. It gave me the willpower to want to change my life around. It made me figure out that I was truly the only person who could. If I wanted to change it would have to come from within side me, and it did.

I was wondering about others thoughts on how it cures addictions.

If you have a story about how it helped you get over your addictions please share as well.

I wouldn't say DMT cures addictions. I would say in some people who are addicts after using DMT they are able to look at their behaviors from a different perspective and adjust them in the future.

Something like ibogaine may have a more biological method of action against addiction

just my two pennies

I am yet to use DMT but was able to come to the conclusion I would no longer use drugs that were unsafe after a high dose LSD experience. I was addicted to some really bad shit, notable benzos and cocaine. I completely stopped after the experience and havent looked back..

So yes, psychedelics may have you look at your addiction from a new perspective but the decision to stop is ultimately up to you.

Think Ayahuasca or Ibogaine would be more likely to help with addiction than DMT just because the nature of the straight DMT experience itself can be very confusing and overly intense. I say this because my pet tuatara has shared DMT with friends with the hope that it would help with their overuse of alcohol and they are still drinking just as much as they used to. Then again I do have a friend who said an entity told him that if he continued using hard drugs then his life was going nowhere and he stopped using right after that, so I think it definitely depends on the person. I would have to agree with Actualfactual that Ibogaine would be the way to go when confronting serious addictions. What's cool about Ibogaine is that it diminishes almost all of the effects of delirium tremens in alcoholics.

This is what I meant. It gives you the power to overcome them, and when you do. You're essentially cured of them.

Same thing happened to me. At one stage of my life, I allowed cocaine to get its claws into me and during an LSD trip at a party I went to the bathroom to have a line. As I opened the packet, I just saw my life from an objective perspective and dumped the powder down the toilet. That was the end of my coke habit...

Im still astounded at my experience with dmt and addiction. I shot heroin on the street for 20 years. you can safely say I had addiction issues. I have had 4 dmt experiences so far, all self administered experiments. The first trip was an ego death- rebirth experience. the second aroused my kundalini (more on that inna bit) and healed me physically. When I came down and looked in the mirror, mt body had literally rearranged itself to the full manifestation of my current potential. Think I'm lying? Ok good. The third didnt quite do enough out of fear- killed fear. reading about this contact phenomena, I wanted to see what the heck that was about and IMed a huge dose- instant release, an eternal unfolding of absolute, through AUM, unified with Kali, "I" died died died! Oh man, my body poured colored light throughout the entire universe, in Samad-He. I remained there for a while, the kindom shimmering below me, the vault of heaven above, oh yes virginia, there IS an everloving God! Ah, healed, freedom , the true name of God is.... Thank You!
Anyway, I walked off methadone, wait a minute, did he say... yes, my friends, healed. Yes.
oh, yeah, sorry, I was lost there in reverie remembrance.. the kundalini thing, I had been only peripherally familiar with the concept, but after my experience, recalled reading about it as a teen being described as something akin to what I'd exp'd. So I went and read up on it and everything I read corresponded, or I knew it was written by someone who had no actual knowledge. Thats an actual "side effect" of an K-awakening, the ability to call spiritual B.S. and recognize truth. Whatever. I dont want to get into a long diatribe describing everything I saw, or heard or spoke, only the result is important.
I want to mention something regarding contact.
There was point after the unification with God, or whatever name you want to give it ( please dont get lost in dogma semantics), where I did go through an immense, literally life-threatening "crisis". As I was returing, something tapped my left shoulder. (astral, man, astral.) It was not some alien, or bug, it was what religions have called the devil, and the name he gave me was Sat-an. I had realized that I AM and that all of creation is merely the result of God having an "identity crisis". That I as a man, stand between heaven and earth, death to my right and the devil to my left. But do I remain "faithful" t5o the Lord, or take this power, resuscitate and secure my ego to it and go back to the kingdom with my "boon"? Oh man, we can do bad things, people, but we can also secure life through Love. It was basically the existential argument of ALL time! Anyway, it was pretty intense, and it is the will, freed of the ego that pulled me through. Thank You, You are my father, I AM, thy son.
I know this sounds really f-ed up, but the end result is the end result people, and I now know how to love, which is where my karma lay. It flowed like water from the base of my spine, free. I AM FREE!
I'm a magician now and I've put down my wand.

And no the irony of using a syringe to cure a life-long heroin addiction is not lost on me. In NA circles they call that kind of behavior insanity. Ha ha ha. To paraphrase I. Regardie, god bless his Soul, if this is insanity, then I propose a good reason for the cultivation of madness!
And as a warning, because it'd be irresponsible of me to not include one, do not expect a substance to heal or cure you, especially of psych conditions. I did ALOT of prep- for 365 days, literally, to get here. But the staff of Hermes is the physicians symbol. Hmmm...

Through a lot of inner work and the use of aya, I was able to leave my addiction behind as well - nearly ten year of oxy addiction, then turning into full blow herion use. I went to a.a. and remained sober for a while, but eventually had a pretty bad relapse. I stopped cold turkey, but I didn't think it would be much different. Just a break. Then I made some tea, was able to deal with things that I didn't know were still affecting me, died and was reborn. I have no desire to use dope ever again. Later in the summer, I took an eighth of mushrooms at a park downtown and layed in the grass. There I was able to discover the root cause of my own addiction, which allowed me to finally let go of it all. It has been an amazing adventure of healing and self discovery, for which I am forever grateful.

I really liked reading this. Thank you for sharing that.