THE HOUSE OF SONG: Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts by the Traditional Indigenous Medicine of the Peruvian Amazon

This book illustrates how the drug addiction is treated in the Takiwasi Center (Tarapoto, Perú). There are for more than twenty years plant medicines applied in the drug rehabilitation program which combines the traditional indigenous medicine of the Amazon and psychotherapy. The Takiwasi model is based neither on total abstinence nor substitution. Its key component is the ritual ingestion of ayahuasca, psychoactive substance producing altered states of consciousness. The writer of this book is verifying if the drug addiction could be treated with this substance, and answers the question about its effectiveness.