This paper is designed to call attention to the paucity of current models of addiction and to sketch the promises of future ones. In surveying the terrain of available treatments in the United States that include the medical and crypto-Christian, it then proceeds to examine two off-shore treatment facilities for chemical dependency that utilize indigenous shamanic techniques in their syncretic-and highly successful-methodologies. An enjoinder to craft a comparative cartography of addiction and the manifold therapeutic options for its treatment, it attempts to bring to light the fact that such a comparative endeavor could greatly improve the abysmal prognoses associated with this debilitating condition.
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