Patrick Moughenda Mikala & Iboga House

[educatedindian]

Claims to be a Bwiti healer, mentioned in another thread. FB page has lots of Nuage links and likes.
https://www.facebook.com/moughenda.mikala

Wanted fugitive in Oakland, unpaid child support of over 30k.
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https://www.oakgov.com/sheriff/Pages/most_wanted/fugitives/mickala.aspx
Patrick Nzamba Mickala is wanted by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office/Friend of the Court Office.  Mickala is wanted for Failure to Appear at 6th Circuit court for Child Support issues.  Owes in excess of $32,600.00 in back child support. 

Last U.S. residence was in Florida and believed to be traveling between the U.S. and Central America (Costa Rica).  Probably traveling with wife, who is Canadian citizen.  When in Detroit area worked as clerk at donut shop and drove a garbage truck.  May now be involved in business selling herbal treatments and promoting spiritual healing.

Contact the Oakland County Sheriff's Office/Friend of the Court Unit - Sgt. Norman (248) 858-1499, or Crimestoppers TIP Line at 1-800-SPEAK-UP (1-800-773-2587) with any information regarding his whereabouts. All calls will remain confidential

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A long thread on him at Complaints Board.
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/iboga-house-fraud-scam-warning-c636948.html
Those anonymous boards often attract very unreliable claims, so nothing there should be taken as proven without further evidence. Among the claims are of neglect and indifference at the spiritual tourism spot he works at in Costa Rica, chasing after vulnerable women needing healing, and leaving a string of unsupported children.

A thread at a forum about Iboga has similar charges.
http://eboka.info/index.php?topic=394.0
They go one step further and say he's making overblown and outright false claims of being able to cure just about anything.

Similar complaints here.
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/16147779
Some went farther and accuse him of assaulting women. I should stress this is the only accounts I've seen claiming that. Most describe him taking advantage of emotionally
vulnerable women, creepy and unethical but not illegal.

His page shows him touring Norway soon. Our European members may want to keep an eye out for him coming there. What's the law on Iboga use there? It seems to be illegal in the US because he only recruits Americans to come down to Costa Rica or Dominican Republic.

[Epiphany]

Ibogaine is a Schedule 1 drug in USA, such drugs are considered to have very high potential for abuse and little to no medical value. Most state laws are based on federal drug schedules. Schedule 1 drugs get the most severe legal consequences. Ibogaine and iboga root bark are illegal in the United States.

http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/orangebook/c_cs_alpha.pdf

Iboga and its chemical derivative, ibogaine, is not illegal in Costa Rica but the substance is also not regulated. The gray area occupied by the African root here has some drug officials concerned about possible health risks after Judicial Investigation Police have blamed at least one death on the drug.

http://www.ticotimes.net/2015/03/19/iboga-clinic-attracts-kardashian-celebrity-scrutiny-from-costa-rican-officials

A 42-year old woman from Norway who came to Costa Rica in search of a controversial addiction treatment suffered a fatal heart attack after ingesting ibogaine, a hallucinogenic substance derived from plants native to Western Africa. According to a news report filed by David Delgado of national newspaper La Nacion, the Norwegian woman passed away in 2014, but her cause of death was recently confirmed by forensic officials.

http://news.co.cr/medical-tourist-suffered-ibogaine-death-costa-rica/37646/

Two people  (Michael Charles Cassidy from Canada and Patrick Zamba Makala from Gabon) who may have been involved in this death are being sought by authorities.

http://news.co.cr/canadian-expat-sought-for-questioning-in-ibogaine-death/37815/

Ibogaine is illegal in Norway (as are all tryptamine derivatives)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine#cite_note-60

[Ingeborg]

He is apparently using different spellings of his name:

Two people  (Michael Charles Cassidy from Canada and Patrick Zamba Makala from Gabon) who may have been involved in this death are being sought by authorities.

from post #1:

Patrick Nzamba Mickala

from thread title:

Patrick Moughenda Mikala


Regarding the legal side:

Iboga is not controlled by the Narcotics Law in Germany. However, it is being controlled by the German Pharmaceuticals Act (AMG), i.e. if produced and sold for a medical-biological application to humans or animals, a permit is needed. If this permit is not obtained, production and sale is punishable.

From what I can see in the way of Google results, Iboga is recommended in the drug scene, as a supplement enabling drug withdrawal without clients experiencing withdrawal effects. In some countries, it seems to be used legally in this way in the treatment of cases of 'grave addiction', with persons with a limited life expectancy who, besides addiction, are suffering from several diseases.

So basically in Germany it is not regarded as a dangerous drug, but as possessing a medical value. There is no remedy containing Iboga sold on the market, however.

I found a comment in a blog where someone from Switzerland mentioned they used to be a social worker with a homeless drug addict clientele and they apparently got some of their clients a remedy from France which contained Iboga; from what they describe very sick persons with a limited life expectancy. They confirm Iboga can be used for drug withdrawal and mention that the Iboga-based remedy also reduced the daily amount taken in way below the Methadone level these clients used to be on before, and probably without the strong addiction-building quality of Methadone. As they also mention a French MD who prescribed the drug, it seems to be legally used as a remedy in France, at least at that particular time.

[Epiphany]

I had wondered about those two names. They are indeed the same man https://www.oakgov.com/sheriff/Pages/most_wanted/fugitives/mickala.aspx