Effect of Santo Daime Membership on Substance Dependence
Previous clinical research on hallucinogen-assisted psychotherapy reported efficacy in treating substance abuse disorders, similar to what has been reported in naturalistic studies of peyote use among Native American Church members. Urban use of the Amazo
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Effect of Santo Daime Membership on Substance Dependence Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Rafael Guimarães dos Santos, Rick Strassman, Brian T. Anderson and Suely Mizumoto
Abstract Previous clinical research on hallucinogen-assisted psychotherapy reported efficacy in treating substance abuse disorders, similar to what has been reported in naturalistic studies of peyote use among Native American Church members. Urban use of the Amazonian hallucinogenic brew, ayahuasca, is This paper is a translation from the original Spanish published in 2013 as, ‘‘Efectos de la pertenencia al Santo Daime sobre la dependencia a sustancias psicoativas,’’ in B. C. Labate and J. C. Bouso, (Eds.), Ayahuasca y Salud (pp. 302–310). Barcelona: Los Libros de La Liebre de Marzo. B. C. Labate (&) Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas-CIDE Región Centro, Circuito Tecnopolo Norte s/n, Col. Hacienda Nueva 20313 Aguascalientes, Ags, México e-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.bialabate.net; http://www.neip.info B. C. Labate Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany R. G. dos Santos International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research and Service (ICEERS), Halsteren, The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected] URL: http://banisteria.blogspot.com R. Strassman Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA e-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.rickstrassman.com; http://www.cottonwoodresearch.org R. Strassman Cottonwood Research Foundation, Gallup, New Mexico, USA B. T. Anderson School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, USA e-mail: [email protected] B. T. Anderson Núcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre Psicoativos (NEIP), São Paulo, Brazil B. C. Labate and C. Cavnar (eds.), The Therapeutic Use of Ayahuasca, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40426-9_9, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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increasingly common in syncretic Brazilian ayahuasca religions, and anecdotal reports suggest recovery from substance dependence among those who participate in their rituals. We sought to assess more quantitatively the effects of Brazilian ayahuasca-using church membership on substance dependence. We employed a modified questionnaire using DSM-IV criteria to determine the presence of substance dependence within a sample of members of a branch of the Santo Daime Brazilian ayahuasca religion. Nearly half of these church members reported substance dependence before joining the religious organization; of these, 90 % reported cessation of use of at least one substance upon which, before church membership, they reported dependency. While these preliminary data require confirmation using more rigorous criteria, they suggest a potential role for ayahuasca, within a particular context, in the treatment of substance dependence.
Introduction The adjunctive use of hallucinogens in the treatment of substance abuse was an active research area in the 1960s and early 1970s (Bogenschutz and Pommy 2012). With the resumption of c
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