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cord-104450-nb2sxfax	Bouso, José Carlos	Traditional Healing Practices Involving Psychoactive Plants and the Global Mental Health Agenda: Opportunities, Pitfalls, and Challenges in the “Right to Science” Framework	2020-06-17		.txt	text/plain	2650	138	38	perspective Traditional Healing Practices Involving Psychoactive Plants and the Global Mental Health Agenda: Opportunities, Pitfalls, and Challenges in the "Right to Science" Framework josé carlos bouso and constanza sánchez-avilés Introduction: Global mental health and traditional medicines For example, WHO's Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 acknowledges the value of traditional medical systems only subsidiarily, qualifying them as "informal": "Greater collaboration with 'informal' mental health care providers, including families, as well as religious leaders, faith healers, traditional healers, school teachers, police officers and local nongovernmental organizations, is also needed." 2 Similarly, the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development's report mentions traditional healing systems only when stating that "[g]lobal mental health practitioners have shown that integrating understanding of local explanatory models of illness experiences is possible while respecting the complementary role of Western biomedical and local traditional approaches to treatment." 3 Paradoxically, in most parts of the Global South, traditional healers are more numerous than mental health workers, and they constitute the main health resource that local populations use and believe in. Traditional healing practices involving psychoactive plants: Human rights challenges Worldwide interest in ayahuasca and related traditional Amazonian medical systems is typical of contemporary globalization.	./cache/cord-104450-nb2sxfax.txt	./txt/cord-104450-nb2sxfax.txt