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Human psychopharmacology of hoasca, a plant hallucinogen used in ritual context in Brazil.
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A multinational, collaborative, biomedical investigation of the effects of hoasca (ayahuasca), a potent concoction of plant hallucinogens, was conducted in the Brazilian Amazon during the summer of 1993. This report describes the psychological assessment of 15 long-term members of a syncretic church that utilizes hoasca as a legal, psychoactive sacrament as well as 15 matched controls with no prior history of hoasca ingestion. Measures administered to both groups included structured psychiatric diagnostic interviews, personality testing, and neuropsychological evaluation. Phenomenological assessment of the altered state experience as well as semistructured and open-ended life story interviews were conducted with the long-term use hoasca group, but not the hoasca-naive control group. Salient findings included the remission of psychopathology following the initiation of hoasca use along with no evidence of personality or cognitive deterioration. Overall assessment revealed high functional status. Implications of this unusual phenomenon and need for further investigation are discussed.
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“Cross-sectional and longitudinal case-control studies showed that ritual and religious ayahuasca users present fewer alcohol-related problems than control groups and that illicit drug use diminished after joining ayahuasca churches (Grob et al., 1996; Doering-Silveira et al., 2005; Halpern et al., 2008; Fábregas et al., 2010).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- GROB, C. S., McKENNA, D. J., CALLAWAY, J. C., BRITO, G. S., NEVES, E. S., OBERLAENDER, G., SAIDE, O. L., LABIGALINI, E., TACLA, C., MIRANDA, C. T., STRASSMAN, R. J., & BOONE, K. B.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of Eastern Finland (FI)
- University of New Mexico (US)
- ORCID
- BOONE, KYLE B.
- Venue
- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
- Published
- 1996-02
- Volume
- 184
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 86-94
- ISSN
- 0022-3018 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2161617741
- Cited by
- 338
- References
- 23
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 14
- FWCI
- 7.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UNIFESP Institutional Repository (Universidade Federal de São Paulo) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Pharmacology › Alkaloids: synthesis and pharmacology
- Keywords
- ayahuasca, ritual drug use, personality, cognitive function, altered states of consciousness, life story interviews, Amazonian indigenous peoples
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Mental Disorders, Brazil, Cognition, Hallucinogens, Harmine, Humans, Magic, Male, Medicine, Traditional, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Personality, Plants, Medicinal, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Religion and Medicine, Tea, Verbal Learning, Substance-Related Disorders
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