{"id":61,"date":"2003-11-05T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2003-11-05T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-05T23:28:00","slug":"traditional-medicine-versus-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Medicine versus Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

As long as I’m blogging the BBC, let me point out this story<\/a> on the effectiveness of traditional therapy, including the use of entheogenic (“psychedelic”) plants in a shamanic context to overcome drug addiction in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As long as I’m blogging the BBC, let me point out this story on the effectiveness of traditional therapy, including the use of entheogenic (“psychedelic”) plants in a shamanic context to overcome drug addiction in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,25],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-entheogens","tag-herbalism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":271,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=271","url_meta":{"origin":61,"position":0},"title":"Drug war backfires again The\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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In lengthy interviews with The Telegraph, the two exorcists discuss how the increase in drug and pornography addiction, failure of the mental healthcare system and a rise in popularity of \"pagan activities\",\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Christianity\"","block_context":{"text":"Christianity","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=christianity"},"img":{"alt_text":"pentagrampizza","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pentagrampizza.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1085,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1085","url_meta":{"origin":61,"position":2},"title":"Gallimaufry in Traffic","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00b6 So M. and I are in traffic behind a Cadillac SRX with the vanity license plate \"S-N-M\" and a custom-painted \"Sanguine Addiction\" above the license-plate holder. That's a Colorado metal band, but the driver did not look like any of the musicians. Here is what we were arguing about:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","block_context":{"text":"blogging","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":980,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=980","url_meta":{"origin":61,"position":3},"title":"The Ayahuasca Diaries","author":"Chas S. 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Anne Hill asks, \"Does Your Religion Pass the Briefcase Test?\" This concept was explored in the magical religion of Candombl\u00e9 in Paul Christopher Johnson's Secrets, Gossip, and Gods. Read Johnson's book and see how much seems familiar. \u2022 Sannion rants about bad ritual:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"blogging\"","block_context":{"text":"blogging","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1608,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1608","url_meta":{"origin":61,"position":5},"title":"An African Investigates Her Own Traditional Religion","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's not that I have nothing to blog about, more that I have too much, and if I tried to write it all, nothing else will get done. 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