SBS - Dateline - Happy Juice (Ayahuasca)



Visitors are travelling from all over the world to a remote part of the Peruvian jungle for what they hope will be a life changing experience.
 
Video journalist Giovana Vitola joins them in their search along the Amazon River for Ayahuasca – a drink administered by Shamans and credited with curing conditions such as depression, alcoholism and drug addiction.
 
She meets some of the Westerners who make a living in the jungle, extolling the virtues of the plant-based brew to tourists, and guiding them through their hallucinations and sickness to what they hope will be a better life.
 
But the medical community is more sceptical, with serious concerns about the physical and mental side effects.



Radio interview is Giovana talking to SBS Radio's World News Australia about her story, and whether she feels people are being exploited or genuinely helped.