Indigenous Approaches to Substance Use/Addiction Treatment & Recovery.

Ntsiki Mackay-Anderson's doctoral research - Culture as Medicine? South African indigenous understandings of addiction and recovery - is a performative and experimental exploration of Critical Indigenous Pedagogy grounded in her ancestral cosmology of Ubu-Ntu. It plays with ancient and modern ways of knowing - storytelling, personal narrative and dreaming and contributes a personal narrative on addiction and recovery. It seeks to deepen understandings of addiction and recovery, to include notions of historical trauma, dispossession, alienation and insecure attachment to ancestors, nature, and land. It is a co-creative project, collaborating with Indigenous Health Practitioners. researchers and people in recovery to explore the limitations of current allopathic treatment offerings in South Africa and explore now the field of indigenous medicine has understood and responded, historically, to high levels of alcohol and drug addiction in South Africa

For this seminar, Ntsiki would like to share this work and connect with other researchers and…