S1817 • 2025

Requires the office of addiction services and supports to encourage, aid, and facilitate clinical research into the use of ibogaine in drug treatment

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Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Last action: 2026-04-29
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Requires the office of addiction services and supports to encourage, aid, and facilitate clinical research into the use of ibogaine in drug treatment

Requires the office of addiction services and supports to encourage, aid, and facilitate clinical research into the use of ibogaine in drug treatment Requires the office of addiction services and supports to encourage, aid, and facilitate clinical research into the use of ibogaine in drug treatment for heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine addiction.

What This Bill Does

Requires the office of addiction services and supports to encourage, aid, and facilitate clinical research into the use of ibogaine in drug treatment Requires the office of addiction services and supports to encourage, aid, and facilitate clinical research into the use of ibogaine in drug treatment for heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine addiction.

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Bill History

2026-04-29 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS
2025-01-14 Senate
REFERRED TO ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS

Official Summary Text

Requires the office of addiction services and supports to encourage, aid, and facilitate clinical research into the use of ibogaine in drug treatment
Requires the office of addiction services and supports to encourage, aid, and facilitate clinical research into the use of ibogaine in drug treatment for heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine addiction.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          1817

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 14, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. FERNANDEZ, ASHBY -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Alcoholism  and
          Substance Use Disorders

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring the
          office of addiction services  and  supports  to  encourage,  aid,  and
          facilitate  clinical  research into the use of ibogaine in drug treat-
          ment

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Section  19.07  of  the  mental hygiene law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision (o) to read as follows:
     3    (O) THE OFFICE OF ADDICTION SERVICES  AND  SUPPORTS  SHALL  ENCOURAGE,
     4  AID,  AND  FACILITATE CLINICAL RESEARCH INTO THE USE OF IBOGAINE IN DRUG
     5  TREATMENT FOR HEROIN, METHAMPHETAMINE AND COCAINE ADDICTION.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03714-01-5