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La liane Banisteriopsis caapi entre dans la composition de l’ayahuasca, un breuvage aux effets psychotropes utilisé par certains peuples indigènes d’Amazonie à des fins spirituelles. Apollo/flickr

L’ayahuasca, un psychotrope amazonien, pourrait soigner la dépression sévère

Luís Fernando Tófoli, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp); Dráulio Barros de Araújo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), and Fernanda Palhano-Fontes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

L’ayahuasca est un breuvage psychoactif utilisé pour la médication et les rituels spirituels autochtones. Aujourd’hui, des chercheurs brésiliens révèlent qu’il est aussi efficace contre la dépression.
The vine Banisteriopsis caapi is one ingredient in ayahuasca, a psychedelic brew that Amazonian indigenous populations have long used for spiritual purposes. Apollo/flickr

Amazonian psychedelic may ease severe depression, new study shows

Luís Fernando Tófoli, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp); Dráulio Barros de Araújo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), and Fernanda Palhano-Fontes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

Ayahuasca has long been used for indigenous healing and spiritual rituals. Now, a Brazilian clinical trial has confirmed that this psychoactive drink can help those with even severe depression.
Programme participants join in during capoeira lessons in Sao Paulo’s so-called ‘Cracolandia’. Sebastian Liste/Noor for the Open Society Foundations

São Paulo’s drug policies are working – will the new mayor kill them?

Luís Fernando Tófoli, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)

A public health programme respected locally, lauded globally, and based on the best science for helping homeless crack users, is at risk of falling victim to Brazil’s partisan politics.
The war on drugs is not working for every day Brazilians. Antonio Lacerda/EPA

Brazil’s politicians can’t ignore drug reform forever

Luís Fernando Tófoli, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) and Luciana Boiteux, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Brazil has a serious drug problem. The country lies beside the largest coca plantations in the world in Peru and Colombia. A sizeable part of the cocaine used in Europe moves through its vast territory…

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