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Weekly Dose: ayahuasca, a cautionary tale for tourists eager to try this shamanic brew

  • Written by Stephen Bright, Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
imageAyahuasca, a plant-based brew that gives people a psychedelic experience, can be fatal, especially when mixed with other drugs.Jairo Galvis Henao/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Last night’s ABC Foreign Correspondent highlighted how Australians have been travelling to South America to seek the mystical experiences and healing properties of the plant brew...

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