This qualitative interview study (n=15) investigated how plant medicine facilitators differentiate the use of hallucinogenic drugs such as psilocybin and ayahuasca from recreational drug use and found that they define their practice through a “higher purpose” such as the healing of childhood traumas or treating of addiction that lays particular emphasis on ritual and integration as essential to this process.
- Published
- Journal
- Addiction Research and Theory
- Authors
- Dorsen, C., Palamar, J., Shedlin, M. G.