Ayahuasca in the treatment of Addictions
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Jacques Mabit, M.D., is Founder and Executive President of the Takiwasi Center for Drug Addict Rehabilitation and Research on Traditional Medicines in Tarapoto, San Martin, Peru. He is Eminent Professor responsible for Traditional Medicine Studies at the Universidad Cientifica del Sur in Lima, Peru, and distinguished as Honorary Member of the Peruvian Psychology Association. He was selected as a Fellow of the Ashoka Foundation in 1996.
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