Comprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic
methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human …

One country's sacrament is another's illicit drug, as officials in South America and the United
States are well aware. For centuries, a hallucinogenic tea made from a giant vine native to …

How historical, social, and cultural forces shaped the psychedelic experience in midcentury
America, from CIA LSD experiments the Harvard Psilocybin Project. Are psychedelics …

Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores
a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of …

Background: In Peruvian Amazonian medicine, plant diets (dietas) are a fundamental and
highly flexible technique with a variety of uses: from treating and preventing illness, to …

Euro‐American theories of psychotherapeutic intervention focus on therapist behavior or the
therapeutic relationship, conceived in dyadic terms. The cultural prototype is individualistic …

" Les psychédéliques sont de retour, mais cette fois dans les laboratoires et les hôpitaux, et
pour leurs indications thérapeutiques. Dans le monde entier, de nombreux scientifiques s' …

Takiwasi is an addiction treatment centre located in Peru that fuses traditional Amazonian
medicine (including the use of psychoactive plants, such as ayahuasca) with Western …

Ayahuasca is an entheogenic decoction prepared from two Amazonian plants containing
controlled substances, including dimethyltryptamine. Traditionally drunk ritually (and revered …

In December 2014 the United States Department of Justice released a policy statement
directing United States Attorney's Offices to consult with Native Nations regarding growing …