For many individuals and families in Florida, opioid use disorder can become a painful cycle of detox, withdrawal, relapse, and repeated attempts to stabilize. Some people have tried residential programs, outpatient care, Suboxone, methadone, or abstinence-based recovery and are still searching for a deeper reset.

Plantas Sagradas is located in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, and supports individuals traveling from Florida who are exploring medically screened ibogaine retreats within a structured preparation and integration model.

Ibogaine is not approved by the FDA for opioid use disorder in the United States. In the U.S., FDA-approved medications for opioid use disorder include buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone. Our work is designed for adults who are seeking an international retreat experience with careful screening, medical oversight, and post-retreat integration support.

Plantas Sagradas provides a structured medially supervised ibogaine protocol designed to support individuals seeking the discontinuation of opioids. Our approach integrates medical safety, physiological stabilization, and deep integration support before, during, and after your reatreat.

When Survival is the Goal

For more than two decades, medications such as methadone and buprenorphine (Suboxone) have transformed the landscape of opioid use disorder. There is no question that these medications have saved lives. They have reduced overdose deaths, improved treatment retention, and helped many individuals regain stability during periods when the alternative may have been continued fentanyl or heroin use.

These medications deserve respect for the role they have played, and continue to play, in addressing one of the most devastating public health crises of our time.

At the same time, another conversation deserves space.

Many individuals who have remained on maintenance medications for years describe a different kind of struggle. They are no longer living in the chaos of active addiction, yet they do not feel fully alive either. They often speak about feeling emotionally muted, disconnected from joy, creativity, intimacy, or even grief. Life becomes stable, but emotionally flat. Recovery begins to feel like surviving rather than participating in life.

This experience is not universal, and many people thrive on medication-assisted recovery. But for others, it raises an important question:

Is stability the destination, or is it the foundation from which deeper healing becomes possible?

At Plantas Sagradas, we do not view this as a debate between medications and plant medicine. We believe each has a place. For some people, medications remain the safest and most appropriate option. For others, after careful medical evaluation and thoughtful preparation, an ibogaine retreat may represent an opportunity to explore whether life beyond long-term opioid dependence is possible.

Our work is not centered on replacing one substance with another. It is centered on helping individuals reconnect with themselves, emotionally, psychologically, relationally, and spiritually.

Beyond Abstinence