Spirituality, Religion, and Addiction: A Possible Epilogue

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1 For example, consider a sample of the following internal as well as external conditions in Uganda that may in some ways influence consumption of alcohol or other drugs patterns, as well as an abstinent life style. How did an old African culture became Islamized, Christianized, and more recently colonized by the British? Its population experienced “big events” such as: “sleeping sickness” during 1900–1920, which killed two-thirds of Lake people in one area; disease burdens of ongoing childhood infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, Ebola, famine, and war-related injuries; population displacement due to ongoing conflicts. The misuse of alcohol, or other traditional and/or “colonizing drugs” could very well be associated with these “big events” as an option for living daily life in Uganda (Accorsi et al., 2005; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda [Retrieved April 22, 2013]). Other examples of big events of different nature may be found in other regions, like the 1960s cultural revolution in European and North American countries, the collapse of Socialist regimes in Europe and the creation of the European Union in the 1980s in Europe, or the British suppression of aboriginal cultures in Australia starting in the 18th century.