Programska knjižnica 9. Lošinjskih dana bioetike - Hrvatsko ...
Programska knjižnica 9. Lošinjskih dana bioetike - Hrvatsko ...
Programska knjižnica 9. Lošinjskih dana bioetike - Hrvatsko ...
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Former addicts need the emotional, legal, health and social care. Ethical<br />
dilemmas are related to stigmatization, primarily because there are no<br />
therapeutic communities – communes for the treatment of female addicts,<br />
discrimination of former drug addicts in achieving rights to employment<br />
and education, and the return to their families and community.<br />
The article will present ethical principles existing in work with psychoactive<br />
drugs addicts, contemporary programs for resocialization of former<br />
addicts and ethical dilemmas that occur after treatment in a public institution<br />
Therapeutic Community “Kampus” of the Canton of Sarajevo.<br />
ROMAN PAŠKULIN<br />
OMI Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia /<br />
Institut OMI, Ljubljana, Slovenija<br />
RIGHT TO CHOOSE HEALING AND CURE<br />
Empirical knowledge based on experience, often with trans-generational<br />
continuity, has a pejorative connotation in the age of rationalism.<br />
The paradox is most obvious in the sphere of medicines of natural origin,<br />
which are not developed by industrial medicine or pharmaceutical industry.<br />
They are the gift of nature or god who provides arguments in his own<br />
vocabulary and speaks a slow and mysterious language. And if someone<br />
listens, understands and respects them – who has the right to take away<br />
his right to choose his path to recovery? Even with scientific proof of efficiency,<br />
they are often classified as “alternative” because of their traditional<br />
origin and some are even prohibited by law!<br />
Iboga (Tabernanthe iboga) is a traditional remedy from Central Africa<br />
that is used in a number of pathologies that originate on a physical as well<br />
as a mental level. Spiritual and social equilibrium passed on by cultural<br />
rituals using this remedy, nicely rounds up a holistic view on health.<br />
In the West, in the last decades, the patient no longer plays a passive<br />
role but has an active one in the process of healing, with the doctor as an<br />
advisor. It’s all about taking the responsibility for one’s own health and at<br />
the same time for the freedom to choose. But, one has to have possibilities…<br />
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