Jordan Belfort, the real-life persona behind Leo Di Caprio’s “Wolf of Wall Street,” recently talked about finding a cure for his cocaine addiction and opiate urges: ibogaine, which comes from a West African shrub now being studied to treat conditions like TBI, PTSD, depression and addiction.
Belfort said he sees the natural psychedelic as a “magic bullet” for the opioid crisis. He told The NY Post recently that after undergoing ibogaine treatment in Mexico he no longer craved opiates.
“I had no more physical addiction,” he said.
Belfort says he got sober in 1997 but then underwent a two-year period during which he had six surgeries. “I was taking Vicodin and I was at the point where I’m like, you know, if this goes on much longer, …