"In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts": Dr. Gabor Maté, Physician at Vancouver Safe-Injection Site...
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Originally Published: 01/19/2014
Post Date: 01/19/2014
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by Democracy Now | Originally published February 3, 2010
Summary/Abstract
Interview with Dr. Gabor Mate , medical director for Portland Hotel Society, which is a residence/harm reduction facility exploring the biological and economic roots of addiction.and the role of biology - environment interaction in the development of addictions.
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"In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts":
Dr. Gabor Maté, Physician at Vancouver Safe-Injection Site, on the Biological and Socio-Economic Roots of Addiction and ADD
Dr. Gabor Maté is the staff physician at the Portland Hotel Society, which runs a residence/harm reduction facility and North America’s only supervised safe-injection site in Vancouver, Canada, home to one of the world’s densest areas of drug users. The bestselling author of four books, we speak to Dr. Maté about his latest, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, which proposes new approaches to treating addiction through an understanding of its biological and socio-economic roots. Maté also discusses his work on attention deficit disorder and the mind-body connection.