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It promotes eradication of illicit drug use and promotes abstinence against tobacco and alcohol., [60] and promotes a measured and balanced approach to use of both medicinal drugs as well as natural remedies (which it neither discourages or prohibits), [61] promotes the control of medicines that may be abused, [62] and promotes vaccination and ...
For example, with regard to religious coping, he stated that "certain kinds of ritual performance in Japan can be understood in terms of coping mechanisms, and this is an area identified in the Fetzer report that holds promise for cross-cultural research (at least in relation to Japan)" (p. 405 [5]).
[100] [101] However, Purim has more of a national than a religious character. Mead: Alcohol: Depressant: In the Norse religion the drinking of ales and meads was important in several seasonal religious festivals such as Yule and Midsummer as well as more common festivities like wakes, christenings and ritual sacrifices called Blóts. [102 ...
Chemistry, not moral failing, accounts for the brain’s unwinding. In the laboratories that study drug addiction, researchers have found that the brain becomes conditioned by the repeated dopamine rush caused by heroin. “The brain is not designed to handle it,” said Dr. Ruben Baler, a scientist with the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Galanter is director of the division of alcoholism and drug abuse in the department of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. [78] [79] He is the editor of Cults and New Religious Movements: A Report of the American Psychiatric Association, [80] and author of Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion. [81] Saul V. Levine: 1938– Psychiatry
Views on drugs, especially natural or herbal ones such as cannabis, vary widely among the various Buddhist sects, which can be summarized into Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism and Vajrayana Buddhism. The Theravada tradition keeps the Fifth Precept for laypeople more seriously, as well as literally according to the words of the phrasing, i.e.
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