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"The big unanswered question now is which strains are the healers, and which are the troublemakers."

"We recently held a festival with traditional healers where we sat together and talked," the commissioner tells the BBC.

When doing this, therapists function less as healers than as vectors of this new disorder.

Although psychedelic drugs are illegal in South Africa, many self-appointed healers and shamans based in Cape Town are openly advertising that they incorporate them in their therapies.

Traditional healers have long been woven into Nigerian culture, and for some of these men, turning to them was as natural as buying a new Sim card.